Adam Griffith shares how he dissects a basin when crappie fishing.
When on a new lake and dissecting a basin, Adam usually looks for a basin that’s adjacent to shallow water. He generally looks for a big flat, a point, something that has a lot of shallow vegetation or just shallow cover that crappie can use. He will also often look for an inside turn on a big flat or a point that’s coming out.
Then what he’ll do is start on the sharper break next to the actual structure, and then work his way out in the basin to see where the fish are actually set up. He usually find’s them right off the first break where it starts to flatten out into the basin. They’ll often use that as a travel area or a highway.
If he doesn’t find them, he will then continue to work his way out into the basin until he finally finds fish. Typically, they’re gonna marked as soon as structure drops off and that basin starts to flatten out. Although fish may be all the way across the basin, he emphases the best place to start is to to just go right to that inside turn, follow that basin out until it flattens out, and then just keep going until you mark fish.
