Fishing Q&A
Best tips or techniques or bait when fishing for crappie?
help please on what bait or jigs and line type and yea
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- Use a jig that looks like a crayfish. Or even just minnows work for me.
- I've always used live minnows (chubs) the smallest you can find, on Crappies.
- If you are in a small boat, drift into the lilly pads, use any pole, with 8 lb. test line. use a tip up bobber, set the hook about 3 feet down from the bobber, use a split shot sinker about half way between the hook and bobber. use a minnow, look for the small holes between the lilly pads and drop the minnow into the hole leave maybe a foot of slack line and watch the bobber, crappie will pull the bobber under.
- Use light line, 2 or 4 pound test, then size 8 or 10 gang hooks , and live minnows as bait. That's it. http://www.jrwfishing.com/gang_hooks.asp
- I've always had the best luck fishing for crappie by using a small jighead, either 1/16 or 1/32 oz. I add a small white twister tail to the jig, and placing it below the smallest float I can get away with. I use 4 pound test. I very quietly sneak up to fallen timber(like a tree fell over from the shore) to the deepest fallen tree I can find.(you can tell by the angle of the tree from the bank into the water) I tip the jig/twister tail with a nice lively minnow. Has to lively enough so you can see it moving the float around. You drop this set up in the branches of the fallen tree and wait till a crappie hits. Try different depths until you find the hungry crappie. Best time for this tactic is early in the morning and around sunset. But if your quiet and patient they will turn on and off thoughout the day.
- in my opinion it is best to catch crappie in the spring (this is just my opinion) but they can be caught with precision in the hot summer. Crappie prefer shiners and minnows. that is really their favorite bait but they will also hit worms, salamanders, bugs, and other live baits. I caught my biggest crappie (around 2lbs or so) on a small 3 inch rapala casting near a fallen tree...Crappie usually travel together but not in schools as perch and some other game fish do. first try a decent sized hook with a bobber and hook the minnow through its back but not to far in! make sure it can still swim...cast it near structure (fallen trees, rocks, logs, a dock, etc)...oh yeah I almost forgot that Crappie like colder waters so head out toward a deep end where the water seems to be coldest (you rarely see crappie on the banks) well best of luck to you and hope you catch all the crappie your heart desires!
- Are you trolling are fishing straight down? I prefer small minnows when fishing straight down are slightly casting to the school of crappie. If I am trolling I like to use tube baits and jigs, the color depends on where you are fishing.
- crappie minnows on a jig
- 1. Small spinnerbait : once you find an area with a lot of crappies or a school of them, using a small spinnerbait can really impress you. I wouldn't say it is the most effective way to catch them but its pretty good. I have caught many crappies worth gloating about using a spinnerbait. You wont get too many of the small ones with this lure. 2. Small crankbaits: This is a deadly lure for medium to big crappie. Once you locate them, this would be the lure that will bring you to your limit of nice sized crappies the fastest. I never would have thought that crappies would go after crankbaits. 3. Panfish jigs and small tubes: these are the most common way to fish for crappie but it certainly isnt the best way. You will get alot of small ones but will get the occasional nice one. 4. minnows: while i go out on the water fishing for bass, my uncle was fishing for bluegill and crappie using perch minnows. He started out going for bluegill but that wasnt working out since all he was catching were crappie. He caught quite a few but most when pretty small 5. worms: finally the easiest way. Just throw a worm on a hook with a bobber about 2 or 3 feet above the hook and throw it out. This would be the easiest way to locate the crappie. Here is a list of what to look for when searching for crappie: dropoffs ledges weedlines change in underwater structure they spawn when the water temp first reach 66 degrees, which is the best time to catch them. Right now, they have gone deeper due to the warm summer months the best line to use is 4lb braid (I perfer fireline) on a 4-5 foot ultra light rod (i perfer a 4'8'' ugly stik) the best time of day to fish for crappie is during the afternoon. good luck!
