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Crappie Ice Fishing Extremes

Crappie Ice Fishing Extremes

My best day ever for crappies is etched in memory, in part because it was an April Fool's Day, now more than 30 years ago. Late in the season, after getting a blanket of wet snow, we augered holes over a deep basin, dropped transducers down holes, and the screens on our green Fish-Lo-K-Tors lit up like the Christmas tree in front of Macy's Department Store. In 32 feet of water, crappies hovered in a giant pack, stretching across the middle of the water column.

I grabbed the first rod I could reach, one used the day before for speckled trout. It was spooled with 6-pound Maxima monofilament and the lure was a 2...

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