How to Use LiveScope Crappie Fishing with Tony Sheppard + Tips & Tricks

we're doing a little live scoping 101 with tony shepherd out here on kentucky lake it's in the middle of july and uh it's a partially rainy day today uh we've been out here actually a couple days uh filming an episode of the direction and uh caught some great crappie the last couple days as hot it's been we've been ringing wet sweating uh so this little bit of cloud cover is kind of nice today but uh it is truly amazing to see how this livescope allows you to catch crappie in the middle of the summer you know one of the trends right now is all this live scope fishing for these crappie as you well know you've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours literally trying to learn this technique and kind of perfect the technique so to speak and we're going to share a little information of you know how to use the live scope what techniques you use rod and reel wise bait and tackle wise uh for catching these crappie with the live scope and then on top of it we're out here in the middle of the summer time gonna try to catch these crappies so not only are we using the live scope you know most people think springtime fall crappie fishing you're out here literally catching crappie right in the heat of the summer yeah i mean it's july hot as it gets and you can still catch them you just gotta have good electronics and good equipment a debate on the fish now about so one of the first things tony is of course you know always knowing where structure and cover is and of course you've got some waypoints already marked and that on your map where there's some brush piles trees um what type of cover these fish are on so once you locate that and you find a brush pile or you find a you know piece of structure that has crappie on it uh the next step is to catch it is to catch it of course okay now that was a little sarcasm right there but uh so no uh like whatever thing right here is stuff we've put out in summertime spots you know closer to deep water and what i do is i pull up put my livescope down pull up with my livescope scan the tree find the biggest fish on the tree and try to catch it pretty simple all right we're going to show you a little bit about the live scope and what you're looking for to you know know what a crappie is and so we'll drop a trolling motor tony actually has a great setup in the boat if you look up here he has room for two seats which makes it really nice for um when you have a team you know a team type uh tournament like where you fish with your brother all the time or just like the last few days that we've been filming together you know it's nice i got a seat sitting right here beside you i can actually watch the live scope with you guys that don't have that room for those seats of course they would have to stand side by side and watch that monitor and but just what a neat setup tony has right here for those dual seats and you can see he has flipped the uh or turned the live scope on and he has a marking on the map the place that we're going to be looking for i don't see it popped up oh it's loading communicating with another unit communication is a little slow kind of like me now tony i noticed that you have two different electronics on the front and i'm assuming you use the hummingbird for your points and all that and that's just because you're familiar with it right i've always used hummingbird electronics and uh i really love their side imaging so i use their side imaging and i use their smaller 10-inch unit up here for maps and then i use the livescope to actually target the fish got you so you can see down here he has his way points on the humminbird right there you can see all these dots these are brushed piles trees whatever they might be you said some of this is a structure you put out right and uh and then up here's the live scope and so what he's gonna do now is ease up the boat from this point onto one of these and scan it i'm assuming that's the piece of structure starting to come up on the screen there you can see the brush yeah there's your fish top right there that bright black spot i see and then this one looks to be a little larger correct yeah but with the live scope itself if you look right here tony you point make sure i don't mislead somebody where you know like this is going to be a little larger crappie right there am i correct the one with the brighter white there yes um so what he's doing is he scans this pile and he'll look at it and then what he's going to do is throw out and literally target that fish so we are fishing i'm going to assume that looks like a tree top yeah that's a tree okay and if you look you can you know just see that you know you can see that tree top here comes this bait down the screen right there you can see it falling right there is that it and he just swam it by a fish and that fish is following behind it and he turned off of it nope he came back after it totally amazing to be able to throw a bait in the water watch it drop down in that structure and see a fish follow it out and you know you tell me what kind of game changer it's been for you as a crappie fisherman it's it's a huge game changer you know you used to put out eight rods and push across these trees and hope that one one of the rods got in front of the fish and with this technique you can take one pole one bait and put it right on the fish and catch the fish you want to catch i'll note something that you said to me while we've been fishing the last few days is that you know you said in the summertime used to you'd come out here and only catch one two three crappie all day long in the heat of the summer because you have to target them so specifically that you really wouldn't have great days of fishing but now you you're coming out here and catching 10 15 sometimes maybe 15 20 fish yeah i mean on the days that you know you used to catch three with this you can catch 15 and on days that you know every once while you do have a good cool day and you catch 15 spider rigging now you can catch 25 or 30. wow and once again you know when you see these fish and you know you'll notice as they're in these trees a lot of these fish that are up higher in the trees this time of year in the summer bite they seem to bite better am i correct versus once the sun gets up you'll see these these bigger crappie and the crappie they'll be get down towards the bottom and get underneath that structure when that sun gets up over their head and it makes them a little or they you know the bite comes almost to stop when the sun gets high in the summer and it's hot they they sink down the brush and just pretty well shut up until you know the sun starts setting to the evening and they'll bite again right before dark and if you watch you see tony's face is locked on this screen all the time i mean he's looking at the screen um he's really not watching his line anything else right here that's your bait with a fish chasing it i saw that fish one note is sometimes you may see a larger white dot in that structure you kind of got to watch too sometimes if there's multiple crappie together it'll look like a big crappie and then they'll bust up am i right right you'll think it's a big and it'll be two or three small ones together so if you were to point on the screen which fish would you be targeting you know for as a tournament guy right honestly i don't see nothing that large okay but the best fish right there right kind of in the center yup and they're really not sitting that high this morning the two that i would really want to catch is more down in it so here comes his bait falling down the screen right point my finger right there it's coming down coming down and you see the fish come up to it and he didn't really he didn't really stay with it did he just to note this is the very first spot that we pulled up on you haven't fished right here lately at all so we're just out here just looking just like we would if we were it becomes a lot of hunting you do a lot of hunting you know riding around looking till you find them and when you find them usually don't take that long to catch them and then in your case with the tournament side you're looking for certain fish too right you really start targeting a size of fish that you want to catch all right so we pulled up on the first dot right there and no success on that pile so we're gonna move on to the next one we didn't spend a lot of time there uh tony didn't see what he wanted he said them fish weren't real high and there really weren't any of them that were really big white dots that you wanted to catch any size that's what's amazing about this live scope it enables you to you know go through a piece of structure look at it see if there's any quality fish in there that you really want to target to catch and then you're not spending a lot of time catching four and five little ten inches or shouldn't say little ten inches because i cleaned ten inches that's the ones i like to eat ten twelve inches all right so tony we pulled up on another place here now this piece is tell me what when you pop back over it this is an old it's it's an old tree it's about fell down and broke down but looks like it might be a couple fish laid underneath it right there at the base of it see the brighter white dots on there those are the fish and then what you're doing is looking for the the bigger dots i keep putting the camera right there and you're wet you can't see your screen he's like well you get that camera out of the way he spends a lot of time if you look right there he i saw the fish move so what we'll do here is we're gonna keep this on the screen all right let's find tony's bait dropping down through here here comes his bait right here you can see it falling right there and the bait is almost to the bottom there it is right there you can see the fish let's see if they react to it the one's coming up coming up yeah is he gonna take it another one ran up there and did he grab it he bumped it now you commentate this as you see play by play now i think that just made me really excited we got a man on first and a man on second and we're ready for that turn this into a baseball show i don't see any giant white dots in there do you no and you correct me if i'm wrong so right now he's repositioning the boat let's talk about that for a second while you're making the cast i mean uh you know i i think boat control is key to this am i correct it's it's very important you know you want to when you're casting to them you want to start with the wind in your face and get squared to the brush pile to where it's right directly in front of the boat and both you and your partner can cast to it with the wind straight in your face it's allowing you to keep that trolling motor that live scope transducers on the shaft of that trolling motor and as he's rotating the foot pedal he's keeping the live scope aimed on that uh piece of structure out there so when you come in downwind of it and straight downwind of it and basically keep that boat running with that you know the wind just blowing right dead in your face it allows you to keep that trolling motor aiming at that piece of structure all right so we're pulling up on another a bunch of structure right here tony is coming in downwind to that structure and he uses up to it and one of the things that i notice that he does is he gets up to it he kind of gets a scan on it and then a lot of times he'll actually turn the trolling motor around slow your progression up so that you can ease in there on that brush pile because i think one of the things you don't really want to do especially in shallow water is run over the top of that pot correct yeah you don't want to get too close to speak your fish that's the whole deal with the casting to them i believe you can catch a few more fish casting you know when there's some right fish on the spot it seems like the clear water we can catch you know half of them casting if we go up and just drop a jig straight down on them we'll catch one and then the fish spook and you can't catch anymore so what we're talking about there is the technique what we're doing right now is coming up to the brush pile getting it 25 30 feet out in front of us right you're scanning at 40 foot if you notice the bars across the top here these are in five foot increments he has a screen 40 feet out in front of us when he sees that cover out there he slows the boat down and you'll bring it in most of the time in that 20 to 30 foot range 20 to 30. i'd like to be able to cast past the brush pile and see my jig fall on it you know between the 30 and 40 is what i like and it'll be on the back side of the structure so and then of course on the on the live scope itself you can set your depth and so you typically keep it you know i'm going to say two to maybe four foot deeper than the piece of structure is on the side so if you're in 12 15 foot of water you're going to have it set somewhere around 20 22. yeah well we're on a ledge right here we're going to be fishing it'll start falling off but yeah you know if i'm in 18 foot of water i like to sit on like 22 23. if i'm in 12 foot i like it on like 15. okay and right now we're just scanning and looking for it but the techniques you know a lot of the techniques i see guys that i've you know what i i would have thought myself was to vertical jig these piles you know i would think you'd want to get right over the top of them take and lower a bait down to that crappie but you are uh a lot of days that works a lot of lakes that's the most effective way but clear water casting seems to be better if you've got stained water where the fish aren't spooky then yeah i would i would think that dropping on them is more efficient gotcha and so what i but what i'm gonna maybe comment on and correct me if i'm wrong but in the summertime lakes generally clear up more because of the lack of volume of rain and and all that so lakes like this you know being kentucky like gets clear and so that casting technique seems to be better getting that brush pile out in front of you 25 30 feet throwing a little past it letting that jig fall down into it and then swimming that jig specifically to that that fish that you're seeing on the screen another tip is don't ever let your jig get below the fish try to keep your jig you know above the fish's eyes neat tip right there so and uh i did hear you tell me that you had you do see crappie go down and feed but predominantly they want it above them predominantly they want it above bubble but they will go down and feed if they see it falling far enough out in front of them and it and these behaviors you've been able to learn because you're literally watching it happen on that screen am i correct so right now i'm going to say that's the piece of structure that we're fishing and this doesn't look like a giant piece of structure right there what what are we fishing right there it's an old piece of tree it's about gone there's some stumps and a little piece of tree here and you can see his jig coming down right there and so where that white spot is that the fish are trying to get then there he is so here he comes across the screen as he's catching him he's not very big but he's coming across the screen right there amazing that here's an old stump and granted this is not a giant by no means but the point to this is is that you know tony you were able to see that fish i literally drove my finger across the stream and followed what was happening and commentated like it was a baseball game right exactly um amazing and then years ago you could have never done that no no i mean it's it's amazing that you can watch the reaction and the behavior of the fish you know and that tells you a lot of what you need to be using you know if they're not reacting to your bait you need to start smoking baits it's just it tells you a lot a lot of stuff you know a lot of things you thought you knew about fishing you can watch this thing and throw all that out the window oh i've seen it over the last couple days and we can we can actually drop a few of those clips in this video of us filming the show we've been down filming my show the direction and uh tony and me spent two days out here and just had a tremendous two days uh by no means are we catching hundreds of fish or anything like that but we probably caught what twelve fifteen fish fifteen i think one day we caught round fifteen next day maybe twenty yep and uh and and and some of those nice slabs on top of it yeah that's all nice quality fish it's like 90 percent of them was over a pound you know a lot of us pound quarters found 30s pound and a half few pounds and so to watch this screen and see um how the fish behave and react for me was uh i mean real game changer i mean i literally watched a bass come out and got my my jig at one point and of course i got all excited about that as a as a you know you know bass fishing a little more of my knowledge base i love crappie fishing but i've always been that normal crappie fisherman that goes out there in the spring in the fall and says hey look i'm catching 100 of them a day and you know you're out here doing it year-round as a you know as a as a career right uh with with jinko fishing and then following the crappie tournament trail um it's uh and so then for you to be able to i mean i don't know where i was going my conversation because i got so excited about it but anyway i was talking about me catching a bass and seeing it on the screen it once again this live scope is just a game changer of being able to know how the fish react so all right so with us on this casting technique you just saw you catch one but go ahead and i know you're trying to get lined up on another one i get tony's got that actually going to tell you this i don't know what this are this these may be bass okay so while we're out here see how they're laid along the bottom right there all these fish it's all fish oh wow and they're fairly large white dots yeah now is this the piece of structure here that's a piece of structure and that white dot there is that maybe a crappie it's hard to tell he looked a little too long unless it was two so we're gonna we're gonna let tony catch another one here show a little bit again what's happening let's find the jig even takes me right there okay the jig is coming down the screen you can see it falling you can see the fish down here and he's probably by that you fish see the jiggy's bouncing it right along there once again if you look our depth over here we're in 13 feet of water right now you know he's still and we're on a ledge am i correct because it's you know this side's what uh 18 foot about 18 foot deep and we're 12 foot deep on this side so he has it set about 20 22 foot on the settings for the depth and then once again his his uh distance out you're always scanning typically about 40 foot out sometimes i'll do 50. and 50 would maybe be if the fish were a little spookier if the little fish were a little spoke here i would back it out to 50 where i could you know try to cast a little harder and get out there 40 45. so we'll start into talking a little bit about the technique that you're using and kind of the setup of tackle and line size all of that so you def you're throwing it on a spinning reel and you're using what pound braid i use 10 pound braid and i use anywhere from a 10 to 4 pound fluorocarbon leader so when you say 10 pound braid are you using like 30 pound braid that's 10 pound diameter or are you using 10 pound braid that's like two pounds right two pound braid i really think it's like four or six pound diameter okay yeah then i use eight to four pound fluorocarbon leader usually around six to seven foot long a liter is what i like that allows you if you break off a few times you've got enough leader to retie and keep fishing without having to tie the whole leader unless you tie bad knot all right and the braid the reason for the braid the sensitivity sensitivity and it casts so much better you don't have line twists and the sensitivity you can feel the lightest bite so much easier so with the braid one you can keep small line diameter it's sensitive and then you put the fluorocarbon on there for the invisibility at the fish am i correct okay and then and then it helps prevent the line twist as well when you braid on the spinning reel i like the slowest gears in a spinner i can find this is a diawa ballistic 1000 that's what i use primarily on all my casting pose and then this year i come out with a trick stick light last year i come out the trick stick it's a medium action so i come out the light action so i can cast lighter jigs this pole is designed to cast like 80th up to a 16th or 8th and then the trick stick it cast it's better for fishing like eights you can cast a 16th on it but it has a very fast action tip and it's more for like shooting docks you know it's really hard hard to tip it shoots hard but you know i you typically i cast eighth on the trick stick and anything below eighth like a 16th or a 32nd or 64th i'll cast on trick stick light and you're talking about the high size of the jig head the size of a jig head like today we're using a 16th white slasher and i've got on a mermaid and dirty milk and i mean uh baby fry i mean the last two days you've been fishing the baby fries new color smoke that's coming out and uh dirty milk that's our two naturalist colors that we make and right now in this clear water hot summer time that's what you're trying to do is just mimic the fry that's hatched in the last couple months and you and you know you seem to like the natural in the clear water you like that natural color yes yeah i mean you know you figure all that out with live scope you sit there and you cast one color and you know i pull up onto the pile that i know has got 10 or 12 fish and if i make a few casts and don't you know maybe want to follow it i don't get bit i'll start changing colors profile and you know you'll figure something out they'll buy it all right so once again pick that bait back up this is the this is one of your lineup of baits in the jinko fishing lineup of the crappie side right um which is the big t crappie baits am i correct okay and this is the mermaid which has a split tail right and all my baits has flukes in the sides of the bodies that creates little air bubbles you can see it on a lot of scope that'll come out when you twitch it or something there'll be little bubbles released all right and then the jig head is the slasher jig head slasher jig head it's got a light wire a sickle hook on it and the reason i do the light wires if i get hung and i can usually pull and straighten that out and keep i'm going to lay that in my hand i want to show that hook you know that hook is a unique hook that sickle hook has like a v back in the back of it and the the purpose of that v is you know where i like it uh for when i'm tipping with menace i can put them in on there and that mine will ride right in that bee and tail like even if i'm casting typical minions it'll tail through the water right it won't get hung up on the round part you know or droop down and usually sit right there in that little b part good stuff so we talked about line size rod set up and tell me again what length rod are you using here the trick stick light is a 7-2 and the trick stick's a seven foot i went two extra inches on this one and made it a real light action tip that way you could cast light jigs further got you that quick tip enables you to be able to just kind of fire that bait out right all right so that's a little bit about the setup that tony's using for live scoping for summertime um crappie and do you use that same casting rod you know in the spring in the fall as well when you're casting for the uh yeah i do uh like like like this spring what i did was with the trick stick which is a little stiffer like i said i'd use a bobber on it you know because it could handle a bobber and a 16th ounce jig or 30 second and then i would cast you know in shallow shallow water i was casting like a 30 second jig on this with no bobber so that was kind of my spring time setup all right well i'm ready to watch you pick another one out of this pile right here am i right there's a few good fish there or no yes 100 sure yeah i see the guy roaming across the bottom back and forth there's a couple small fish on it but they're not really what we're looking for see look at that fish run over and run back is that what you were talking about with the bass what's the bass yeah usually they're hunting you know they're normally they'll swim if they're around structure they like circle it and they'll swim back and forth across it crappie's more set in one spot okay so let's see what are you targeting here let's see the jig going by that fish right there it's headed to the bottom right there and you can see this wad of bait fish swimming in right over there now this is a carp leaving right there in my right see the big long body and he has hooked up with a fish right here while i'm paying attention all right so there are stripers down there so that's what a lot of them smaller fish are still totally neat that you can see those fish down there watching them swim around aggressively and then throw a bait down there and catch them when one other little tip and this is something that maybe we don't talk about anymore but folks that are new to putting all these electronics on their boat say they take an older boat and put electronics on them uh one of the things you have to be careful of nowadays is running this many units and you know having an outboard that has to crank off of it is batteries and i noticed one of the things that you have in your boat and i personally haven't ran them tell me a little bit about you know the performance of these lithium batteries for you i run the millertec lithium batteries and they're awesome i could fish three full 10 12-hour days without having to charge them i don't recommend it i would charge them about every other day is what i do but you can get by three or four days fishing on one charge back when i run lead batteries i had to have a special battery for my livescope its own designated battery and then i run the other two units on my cranking battery with the lithium battery i can run everything in this boat off of one cranking battery and never have problems i mean you can see 13.5 votes and at the end of the day you'll have 13.4 it's amazing okay so we're on this state bed and let's see where the jig's at 35. see the fish right there coming at it and he has caught him right there it's a pretty good one oh look at this summertime slab crappie this is no baby right there now what uh that fish is going to weigh right around 125 135 i mean look at that right in the middle of the summer live scoping that crappie right out of the pile i mean you pull up on the stake bed you literally point out the fish yeah it's it's pretty well that simple that's it's pretty amazing once you once you spend hours behind the unit and can figure out what you're looking at it becomes i say pretty easy you know a lot of people say i just don't see how it's easy well if you spend enough time looking at it it's easy and you know and i think that's where your advice is correct there tony i think uh you know then it's you you're not just going to grab this unit and go do it immediately no you're going to have to spend some time you got to train your eye to see that jig falling because you don't see this jig oh my goodness look there's my jig there's my jig i mean you still have to pay attention to where it's going and and see the subtleties right it takes a lot of focus it does i mean to keep your lacro motor on on the spot you know your jig and the view of the fish and all that it's a lot of a lot of boat control and hand-eye coordination really and training your eye to the unit that's really probably the three things that goes into it well you know just watching that fish get reeled in and caught i mean it you know it kind of gives somebody a great overview of the live scope and you know of course we went over the rod the line setup um you know i'm gonna pull out though we did talk about the baby fries so i'll pull out the baby fry because that's what i have been throwing is the baby fry that's been the best bait you said yesterday you noticed i went something different i just tried the mermaid and i've been a couple rings off because the fry is growing and getting a little bit bigger and i was just trying to stay the same size as the fry that's hatching in the lake so the mermaid was a little bigger than the fry and so what we do what you did bite the first couple rings off of it and we'll show that in a second so the mermaid has these ribs in it and you bit how many ribs off three three of them three okay so we'll show the mermaid here real quick and we'll show the baby fry but i'll watch catch one more fish on the screen because from me looking down correct me if i'm wrong but i see a few fish on there there's a few fish in this okay are we saying you're in a juice hole no oh he's holding out still every house that you sell if it's got fish on it that's true all right so that white that's probably right there okay those fish up top swimming around those are probably carp okay so that's definitely a car that big that's what a carp looks like right there okay so you heard the reel he's got the cast out there and let me find his jig here comes the jig down the screen right there you can see it dropping once again right there and there's two fish in front of it one of them ran right up and grabbed it and once again i mean tony you just make this technique look uh really simple uh but you've really committed a lot of time and effort and uh and really built uh your knowledge of how to lifescope and right there folks that's what you can catch in the middle of the summer on kentucky lake with a live scope all right tony so we're going to talk about the bait itself and show it in the pack that you like to use or that you're using right now i was also using this bait right here which is the uh fry baby and i was using it in the new color called smoke show that you got coming out yes and now that'll be available after what jul august uh probably about another 30 days it'll be it'll be out okay so we'll say august of 2020 here you'll be able to buy this new color uh this is smoke show when this is the baby fry or the fry baby right there and this is the mermaid that i was using today which i would i was backed off three rings all right go ahead and put that over there on that package there and tony is actually biting off three rings good and healthy way of doing it oh yeah but it's making it a little bit smaller profile to match the size of the fry that's in the lake right now and i like the wheel of that tail i mean you pick that thing up and look at the little wiggle it has yeah that's the reason i put flukes the tickle fry the the french fry and this this bait here all have floats to the side for extra action in the tail and also a little water displacement when it's coming through the water well you've just shown that that mermaid definitely catches them uh at some point i'm gonna i'm gonna get i'm gonna get tired of sitting here talking to this camera and i'm gonna catch one on this smoke show for you but uh well tell me a little bit let's let's jump into the unit here and tell me a little bit about setup of the live scope now i found it to be pretty simple in my boat i just basically turned mine on and i mean i didn't really do much but adjust the forward range and the down range but is there any other adjustments and uh the really the only two adjustments i use is the forward range and the you know like if i'm casting and the fish are spooky i'll go out to 50 foot like that which when you go out further your fish are going to look smaller your bait's going to be harder to find so that's why i run it at 40 i'm just comfortable with my eyes with that and then if i go to vertical jigging and you're and you're adjusting that basically by using the plus and the minus button right you can also adjust it right here but i just this is closer to me i'm just handy to use all right and which unit is this this is garmin's it's uh that's 11 36 11 36 i'm not even really sure okay i mean i've had it in about a year i just when i called bass tank i asked them i asked them what was the best unit that i you know with the best clarity picture for the money and this is what they set me up with and i've loved it ever since my brother actually runs the 12 22. it's the same pretty well the same screen but it's all hand controlled knobs and it's it shows a great picture too but as i say it's like when i'm vertical fishing i run it into 30 foot and that puts your boxes on two foot increments so that way you can kind of judge your fish size you know if it's a 12 inch fish he's going to be about as long as half that box you know 24 inch crappie you better be trying to catch him but uh but you can do that and the closer you draw it in the more detail you get with your jiggle jiggle get bigger the fish will look bigger so keep that in mind when you draw it in to your close ranges your little fish are going to start looking like big fish because you're drawing everything in making it bigger so ah good tip that's that's one reason that i set mine on like 40 foot and try to keep it on 40 foot is that right it's because everything is always the same and it also varies when you vary your depth from like 24 foot to say going real shallow in like 10 foot of water then it's going to make your fish look bigger when you come shallower too so anytime you're bringing it closer or you know you're just blowing it up all right tony one of the other things that we talked or we were talking about a minute ago is the rod the line size the bait but there's also one little important factor there is that folks have have to go from braid to fluorocarbon yeah and you know i actually tied a little homemade knot that i use and of course on the larger floor carbon and larger braid it holds up but on that light line i saw quite a bit of breakage while we were filming of the last couple days in my not the first couple times and then you said mark you want me to show you how to tie this and you showed me a knot called the modified alberto modified alberto and once i tied it i still broke it a couple times because i probably didn't yeah you can mess it up you know get it down perfect but uh let's go through and uh walk folks through that particular knot and i know knots are tough to tie watching somebody on a video but let's just take a minute and show a little bit about that knot but folks could go look up then and what is that now again it's kind of i i'm not 100 sure but i've always been told it was called the modified alberta motta fight alberto and i'm sure there's great youtube videos and stuff out there on those knocks there's thousands of knots you can tie connecting braid to mono but this makes such a small knot it comes through your guides you don't hear it clicking i never felt it coming through mine so let's just kind of walk the folks through how to tie one of them my rod has just my braid on it right now so we'll put a leader on there and then i'm going to get rigged up you know what because i'm tired of watching you catch all these summertime crappie so one of the things that's real important uh well one of the tips are really part of the technique that you have to have is how to take fluorocarbon and braid and tie them together because with this you know casting for these crappie you're using braided line one one does the braid show up better on the live scope yes you can see braid on a lot of scope and you can actually you can actually see the knot that connects your mono or your fluorocarbon to your braid and then from that knot down it just disappears to get to your jig head so what we're going to do right here is we're going to have tony kind of walk us through the knot he uses uh which is the improved alberto knot or modified alberto knot excuse me so he's going to walk us through how he's taking this eight pound or ten pound braid ten pound braid to eight pound fluorocarbon right now so you take your fluorocarbon and you loop it like that right there and you want to make sure your tag end is long enough you've got enough to hold it with your pinky so i make a loop and i always come up to my loop that's important to know which way you go up and which way you go down so always go up and then once you come up i pinch it right there together and i take this and i go five times around two three four five then i grab it with this finger where i stopped spinning and you gotta go my leader's a little short might do it there's one two three and something i didn't do that y'all don't want to do is leave not enough braid but okay on this right here i came i came up through it so i have to go back down the way i come up so i'll take and get that braid through there like that and you want to make sure at this point right here you wet it really good and pull the one thing that amazed me about this knot is is that once you cinch it down i mean you're literally not leaving any type of tag or anything on it you kind of described it as a chinese finger trip yeah the old finger traps that you put on your finger and you'd pull back and they would cinch down and essentially that knot you can see how small that knot is i mean it's very hard to see that's it so that's definitely an important thing is to tie a good knot between the fluorocarbon and the braid so next we're gonna grab an eighth ounce slasher head and by the way tony's rigging my line up so the night i tie on all my jig heads i really don't even know the name of it somebody told me it was a toledo tornado or something if i run my line through like that and i lay my lay my line back across my finger i take my jig and i go one two three and run my line back through the loop sweat it pull it different knot than me i try the old tri-lean knot and the reason i do that is because if you're vertical jig fishing you don't want your bait sitting in the water like this that's not natural so what i call setting a jig is every time i catch a fish or have a bite i take and i grab my line and i pull it to the back and slide the knot to the back that way when my jig's hanging it's more in a natural position wow not hanging down you know and this is these are the details tony you as a as a tournament crappie fisherman and spending so much time on the water those are those details that some days just an extra bite or two can make a tremendous paycheck differently sometimes most of the time and the difference in getting a good paycheck and maybe not even getting a paycheck is details within details you know you figure out the fish and the details to catch them and then it's the small details that that really put the plan together well you're playing you know you're playing with ounces uh when you're when you're talking about tournaments i mean you're playing you're playing without hundreds sometimes you know yeah i've been beat by two 100s that's like a drop of water from first to second all right and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna grab the um the baby fry here or the fried baby you've got my goodness man burps fry baby right here this is in the two inch size am i correct and it's smoke show and that is the exact bait that i'm gonna be throwing and here is the exact bait that tony has been throwing and it is in the two-inch dirty milk mermaid and tony has been biting basically three rings off of the front of that bait one of the things that we probably didn't or you did mention but so like me i'm using way too big a spinning reel and i'll just point that out i brought my strato and it's a 30 000 this reel every time i'm cranking the handle my bait's flying through the water i'm having to like crank like this so a slow gear ratio reel and tell me that reel that you're using is it's a five to two to one that's about as slow as the dial all these companies are starting to make faster reels for the bass fisherman and it's hard to find a really good quality reel that's got slow gears all right and that is a diawa what ballistic a boy ballistic 1000. i suggest a 1000 size whatever oh for sure because this is this is i mean tough to be able to you know slow reel it slow enough and uh tony shows you why he is the master of of live scoping over here for me he's he's my uh uh mr miyagi that's what i want to call you mr miyagi of livescope you know that's something that amazes me with doing this is so many times you think your bait would be in one place and it's not you know the bait does something totally different and that's what's great about the livescope so you know where the brush pile is and then one of the things you talk about is you know following your bait down and not always letting it fall down in there but fish over the top of that brush pipe you make it look way way too easy up here's the one coming out after mine there he is right there i watched him come up on that screen and look at that we just had a double there that is so cool to just you know watch that fish come out of that brush pile and eat that bait now granted right now we're probably not targeting the trophy size fish i mean we're just sitting here because there's a bunch of fish on this one yeah and when i pulled up i thought i caught the biggest two fish and then now we're just catching the fish kind of teaching you what you do how to catch them i'll take all the teaching i can get they're eating that smoked shell and this color won't be available until sometime in august of 2020 uh but right there what a and and you know that's something that i really like about them i'll put this crappie back we always want to keep them healthy i really like this natural color i think this little bit of you know it has like this haze of black in it it's clear has like a haze of you know charcoal gray or whatever in it but all that flake when you put it in the water i mean this thing really really resembles you know a bait fish and it's kind of hard to see somewhat yeah you know what hard to see but the glitter the glitter fills it fills it in it makes it look like a bait but think about a bait fish swimming through the water how hard they are to see you know sometimes we make these colors and then that are brighter and i really like this smoke show did you see him yeah it was a better wall look at that better one laid down there on the bottom i couldn't catch up oh my look at that slab oh man he got some back boys now that would be a fishy target tournament yeah that'd be a tournament fish pretty close to pound a half well tony i think you've done a great job today of sharing with folks about how to live scope crappie and i think you've shared a wealth of information of you know don't be scared to get out here and crappie fish even in the middle of the summertime so we're on kentucky lake and uh the rain's in the background it's starting to come down and on that that might make this a real short and simple video but i think we've shared a wealth of information uh from you uh to the viewer right here and uh hopefully some of these folks will get out grab their live scope buy some jenko products there we've showed you a couple great products and uh you know tony myself personally uh you know being a part of you guys uh and getting to work with you guys at jinko all the time i truly enjoy uh you all as people one will you colton uh these guys uh truly enjoy the sport of fishing i mean you've grown up loving fishing i've listened to you tell me that you uh used to sit in your front yard in a jon boat and uh pretend that you were fishing that's how much this guy loves it fish the edge of a broom stage field and every once in a while cast in it just like a jerk but you know you guys are always wanting uh you know to share information with folks so if anybody wants to reach out to y'all and and have questions what's a good way for them to reach out to y'all they can contact us at our office number or uh online on all of our social medias we have messenger you know you can post a message on any social media we're you know we're all about growing the sport of fishing that's what we're trying to do it's always great to share information with folks and i appreciate you coming out here showing folks how you are targeting uh catching crappie uh with the live scope i hope they learned something i definitely did

Channel: The Direction TV

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Keywords: fishing, crappie fishing, jenko fishing, jenko, mark stowe, tony sheppard, learn to fish, livescope, bass boat, 811, summer crappie fishing, summer fishing, catch more crappie, how to use Livescope, Kentucky lake

Id: vI-RzFEB97Y

Length: 53min 14sec (3194 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021