French Creek Fishing Spot

4 Rating based on 1 Reviews

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  • French Creek is a good fishing spot for bass. The left bank as you enter the area is a spring time bedding area and feeding location. Try a rattle trap, spinner bait (clearer water), or a plastic on a texas rig. French Creek as many places that have flats and structure points that bass hold to when the water temp is between 60 and 75 degrees.

French Creek Baits and Tackle

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Crikets on Drop Shot Method Hook Roughly 8 to 10 inches from weight.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Chrome Rattle Trap, and Shad colored Crank.

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Minnow Check Prices

  • Used the drop shot method with live crappie minnows.
  • Using the drop shot method with live minnows.
  • Using a B & M 16' crappie fiberglass pole with a float, 3/8 oz. weight and a 3/0 gold aberdeen Eagle Claw hook. Fished around sunken tree tops in about 12 feet of water, fishing about 5' deep.
  • Again I used my fiberglass 16' B&M crappie pole, live minnows, float, 3/8 oz. weight and 3/0 Eagle Claw gold hook. I fished around dead standing timber in about 11' of water about5' deep. Also used an ultra light rod with Mr. Twister spinner with a smoke colored sassy shad in the 1/4 oz. version.
  • Used the drop shot method fishing the same red clay bank ledges in about 8' to 14' feet of water with live minnows.
  • WE used the drop shot method with live minnows fishing the red clay bank ledges in about 8' to 15' depth.
  • I used up the 1/8 lb of crappie minnows that I started with and caught shad and river minnows with a bait dip net around the evening fishing secret for the remainder of the trip.

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