CRAPPIE

[openmeplease2]

help me im going crappie fishen and whate bait would be best

[dahlberg]

Hi O
You can never go wrong with a jig/minnow combo fished under a slip float. Mess with head/body color and depth of float.
Sometimes, depending on cover etc. several rods set at different depths slow trolled with a stop and go, stop and go is a great way to find them.
best,
L

[ScottJ175]

I've also had success on two different bodies of water getting them to hit a Lucky Craft 65 Pointer SP in MS America Shad color.

It's a 65 mm suspending jerkbait. In both cases I was only fishing 4-5 feet of wather though.

One of these days I'm going to Carolina rig a 2 inch floating Rapala and see if I can get them deep.

[ScottJ175]

By they way, they'll hit Rat-l-traps too. I caught this one this afternoon in a pond casting toward some surface activity.

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... C-0219.jpg

[steelneal]

i caught over 200 last week on minnows. 2# flouro leader and dinky float almost ready to sink.
Long Live the Larry!

[dahlberg]

That's a mess of crappies! Minnows are mothers milk!
best,
L

[steelneal]

i kinda cheated though...a buddy brought down emerald shiners from the Lake Erie bait shops. can't get them near where we were fishing. they are pure dynamite!

I prostrate to your Piscatorial Prowess!
Long Live the Larry!

p.s. you'll be receiving my on-line order for an autographed hat this pay day...could you sign it to
Steel Neal the Fish Whisperer?