The BEST Winter River Crappie Fishing with Todd Huckabee

Many crappie anglers halt their fishing during the winter months but focusing efforts on sunken timber can be incredibly productive on rivers. Professional crappie angler Todd Huckabee shares his system for finding and catching crappies relating to trees using jigs and plastics in conjunction with Garmin LiveScope.
Huckabee hits on a range of topics from boat positioning to reduce spooking, how the biggest and most aggressive crappies position in river timber, and his preferred rod, reel, and line setup for extracting big specks. Not getting bit with an active jigging approach? Huckabee explains how less lure movement produces better catch rates during the cold-water months.
KEY TACKLE & FISHING EQUIPMENT
• FISH FINDER - Garmin GPSMAP 8612 12" Chartplotter: wired2.fish/GPSMAP8600SeriesS...
• LIVE SONAR - Garmin Panoptix LiveScope: wired2.fish/GarminLiveScope
• PLASTIC - Redneck Rubber Beaver Bottom Bait: wired2.fish/BeaverBottomBaitsRR
• JIG - Redneck Rubber Raptor, 1/8-ounce: wired2.fish/RedneckRubberRaptor
• ROD - Todd Huckabee Elite Rod: wired2.fish/HuckabeeEliteRod
• REEL - Abu Garcia Max X Casting Reel: wired2.fish/AbuGarciaMaxX
• LINE - K9 Crappie Braid, 10-pound: wired2.fish/K9CrappieBraid
• TROLLING MOTOR - Minn Kota Ultrex: wired2.fish/MinnKotaUltrex-RMP
• BIBS - JB Langley Altus Rain Bib: wired2.fish/AltusRainBibPant
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[@brysonwilliamson6269]

Too many youtube videos have titles that imply tips for catching only to never offer any tips. Your videos truly offer valuable tips and insight into why and how. Keep up the good work.

[@kerrys.5725]

Ditto Brian! Best crappie video I've seen in a long time that gave "detailed" insight on where, why and how to catch them. Not just the ordinary... Hey look at me catch fish vid! Bet you wish you could! Or having them show you how to tie a double jig rig and/or LOOP not....Seen way too many of those! TSM! Keep them coming, and God Bless!

[@jtotherog]

What yall said🤙

[@markniles3013]

Love the phantom 13 rods. We have a few of the 10 footers but its hard to beat the phantom Todd rod. Thanks for the tips Mr. Huckabee.

[@halifax512]

That was actually a ton of really useful info, ty!

[@Wired2Fish]

Glad you gleaned some goodness out of it Halifax512. Thanks for visiting.

[@joeturner1195]

Great video with useful information have fished all my life and learned from you thanks

[@ddjackson04]

Very good info Todd. I wouldn't do anything differently that what I just witnessed.

[@larryshepard8556]

Great video Todd with some very good tips!

[@jlewis8829]

Great tips!

[@Wired2Fish]

Thanks J Lewis. No question that Todd knows his stuff!

[@jtotherog]

Damn good video! Not enough info out there for guys who fish rivers! ✌

[@Wired2Fish]

Thanks a bunch John. Todd's knowledge is exceptionally deep and he coughed a lot of insight here. And yes, our nation's rivers deserve a little more content love. Some of the finest fishing without the crowds.

[@jtotherog]

@@Wired2Fish amen to that! I fish the Ohio River in Ky and its tribs. Some of the best crappie fishing ive experienced. Good numbers and size! Thanks again!

[@kennethgriffith2374]

Thanks for sharing

[@aremancing]

Woo amazing

[@halmiller6834]

Good video!

[@roberthaynie3124]

Good stuff.

[@dwheeler016]

Thanks

[@Wired2Fish]

Our pleasure bud.

[@paulpearson5283]

Todd I’m not very successful at catching crappie but I love it very much dew to surgery’s I’ve had I have gone to electrical anchors my question is does the noise from the motor spook the fish thanks my friend ,Paul

[@mastermouaable]

How does the Crappie look like on my side-scan Garmin 73SV UHD monitor?

[@caseyhepler2806]

Any results related to scented baits?

[@aspectdj147]

What type of jig u using for these crappies

[@ericreader3984]

What’s the name of the river that you are fishing. I fish the Mississippi River along Iowa and Illinois.

[@jackjohn3035]

what's the model number or name for the exact rod he has?

[@collieer]

Just recently caught a crappie on a half oZ footbal jig lol. I couldn’t believe it

[@codyodom6114]

Lord how big was it?!?

[@collieer]

@@codyodom6114 ha man he was typical 12-13inch probably. I couldn’t believe he choked it. So next time I crappie fish and think I should go 1/32 instead of 1/16 I won’t have a doubt in my mind

[@callmecamo2]

Fort Gibson?

[@lukehuffman6126]

Can anyone fish without using livescope I mean what ever happened to having to go out and actually look for a good place to fish if you ask me it's cheating...

[@Reezystp]

The answer is no they can't everyone is constantly looking at there phones even while driving....now there looking at that screen all day fishing SMH

[@lukehuffman6126]

@@Reezystp half of these anglers on KZbin wouldn't know how to fish if the had to do it the way my uncle's and the older people done it. I still fish like that I wouldn't own livescope unless I was a fishing guide it. And I've even seen tournaments that let them use it. It's just not like it used to be that's for sure

[@Reezystp]

@@lukehuffman6126 I hear ya, a good fisherman learns from what he was taught as a youngin and through his own experience along with trial and error