Crappie fisherman. Do you prefer jigs or minnows?

[TigerBait1971]

??

 

[MISKO]

minnows .. I just have better luck with live bait

 

[TigerBait1971]

minnows .. I just have better luck with live bait

I always get more fish with live. I think I get bigger fish with lures, but I have no scientific proof.

 

[MISKO]

I always get more fish with live. I think I get bigger fish with lures, but I have no scientific proof.

I barely catch anything with lures..

 

[TigerBait1971]

I barely catch anything with lures..

I only fuck with lures in the Spring when they will attack anything. When the bite gets tough, I go to live. I love nightcrawlers. You can catch anything with those mofos.

 

[MISKO]

I only fuck with lures in the Spring when they will attack anything. When the bite gets tough, I go to live. I love nightcrawlers. You can catch anything with those mofos.

night crawlers are one of my favorite baits to use

 

[MISKO]

it took me awhile to get used to using leaches for walleye ..

 

[MISKO]

mealworms are pretty good for crappie too .. brims also

 

[Wingingit]

I have great luck using jigs with a small piece of uncooked chicken skin dangling from the hook, especially when they are biting on mealworms, the skin is tuff, stays on the jig for 5-6 fish, try it some time.

 

[fordman84]

minnows FTW

and dump some of the bag water in first to get the crappie all worked up. Need the scales in the water

 

[JohnRandle]

A jig with waxworms for all panfish work pretty well for me.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

Jigs!! I rarely use minnows. Zoom makes a little 2 in. jig called the "shad" that I just found last fall and the crappie have been killing it. If they want touch the Zoom shad, I'll go to a 2 in. Bass assassin curly tail shad with about a 3/32nd-1/8th jig head. Between those two baits I rarely come home empty handed.




The Zoom Shad

I only use the solid white ones, but this is the only pic I could find.

The Bass Assassin curly tail shad

again, I only use the solid white ones.