A recent road trip to North Carolina and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association annual meeting found me in Georgia on my way back home to Florida. I had an invitation to fish some brush piles on Lake Blackshear for some fall crappie. Fall crappie fishing in Georgia can be some of the best of the year according to B’n’M Poles pro-staffer Scott Williams. Scott is a virtual encyclopedia of crappie fishing knowledge, some of which he got from fishing with his dad. Scott and his dad, Billy Williams are frequent competitors on the Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters All American Tournament Trail.
In addition to other tournament accomplishments, the father/son team won the Crappie Masters Florida State Championship in 2014. Scott and his friend Jacob had competed and won a local tournament just one week earlier doing exactly what we were planning on Lake Blackshear.
The fall crappies were migrating to brush piles, some of which had been place by Scott. “Most of the structure I fish in area lakes is natural brush, but it is a tree that had been cut down, drug out into the lake and sank in an isolated area,” explained Scott. “I like brush in areas where there is no other structure around.”
Placing additional brush on standing timber is not helpful to Scott. “If you have standing timber I don’t like to put brush in the middle of it. The fish are just scattered, three or four fish on each tree. I like putting stuff on a clean bottom, a hard bottom, so when the algae gets there, the bait goes there and the fish will all go to that one spot instead of being scattered.”
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