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Home Crappie & Panfish Find and Catch Big Crappie on Brush Piles

Find and Catch Big Crappie on Brush Piles

Ryan DeChaine
Apr 05, 2016

Panfish love woody cover, and brush piles just might be the most consistent producer of crappie throughout the year. If you learn how to find brush piles and identify which ones have lots of fish, you’re gonna have a well-stocked freezer. Wired2Fish Publisher Jason Sealock is an electronics super user, but as he points out in this video, powerful sonar technologies such as side and down imaging has been brought down to more affordably priced electronics like the Lowrance Elite Series and the Humminbird Helix. Side imaging helps you quickly find brush piles, and then determine if they’re holding fish. A good old marker buoy and a handful of jigs and plastics rounds out this simple program.

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Ryan DeChaine

Ryan began his fishing industry career with Lindner Media Productions, gaining nearly a decade of unparalleled experience creating dynamic and compelling television programming and video production promoting the sport fishing industry. DeChaine oversees the strategy, creation, and publishing of video content on the website and social media platforms. Outside of work, DeChaine and his wife Jillian raise their three children around an active outdoor lifestyle in the lake-rich and forested lands of northern Minnesota.