help, jigging for crappie

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Jusst about any small soft plastics on jigheads catch crappie most months out of the year. Add to the list small crankbaits, Rapalas, small spinnerbaits, bass poppers, etc. you've got a fish a 5 year old could catch!


Some ideas for the most guarenteed soft plastics:

1/16 and 1/8 oz. unpainted roundhead jigs

3" Tripple Ripple grubs (bubblegum/chart tail)

3" Bass Pro caterpillar grub (chart/black flake)

Hoo daddys (junebug)

Bass Pros Tri-color crappie grub

3 or 4" Bass Pro's Spring Grub ( chart., Stp, appleseed or clear/black flake /chart. tail)

small 2" tubes (chart/ sparkle)

The above are mutispecies baits so don't be surprised to catch bass or pike!

After you rig the bodies onto the jig, cast them out, twitch just after touchdown, slowly retrieve, twitch some more and slowly swim back toward you. The strike is an unexpected 'bow' in the line or a perceptible tick. Use a 3' leader of 14 lb. test Fireline or Fusion braid. Sensitivity and hookups will astound you!

Poppers thrown to the rise or where crappies are within a few feet of the surface, get viscious crappy strikes; ditto for 2.5" silver floating Rapala minnow plugs twitched on surface and down to 6".

I love my Scrappy Crappie. When the bass bite is slow, they keep things interesting. Get into a school and 40 lbs. of crappy is not unusual!

I've given you info that works anywhere, anytime. Use it and good luck!
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