Crappie Fishing Poll

sometimes tip my jig with a minnow.. sometimes a grub/wax worm

 

Unless you are just talking about minnows, almost always tip with crappie nibbles but never with minnows.

 

If I'm jig fishing ,thats all I use ,plain jig,otherwise I just use minnows on a gold hook.

 

I never tip my jig because I only use live bait and small rapalas for crappie fishing.

 

I voted sometimes tip my jig with a minnow. It all depends on what the fish are relating to that day.

 

I'm an artifical nut .So I never ever tip it with a minnow. I'll change colors or baits. But we all kneaux how squirrely those fish can be. Kinda like my Wife of 31-years....whatcha get one time may not work the next. Maybe that's why I like fishing crappie so much and marriage can be challenging all the time!!:crazy:

 

ya know i like to go fake worm had real good luck on them

 

When I was growing up in Ohio, I would tip jigs with minnows most of the time. Once though, a guy showed my uncle and I an artificial that he was using. It was a small white cricket. He was KILLING the crappie with it! We started using that and going between that and minnows.

 

Most of my crappie fish is done using minnows,hook,and a bobber.

 

I'm with Curdog on this one. Most of my crappie fishing is with a minnow under a bobber. Sometimes I'll just go with the minnow and no bobber.

 

I try different things until I find what works for that trip. Usually either a plain light/dark tube jig or a gold aberdeen #4 w/minnow & just enough weight to sink it to the right depth.

The places I fish, anything with a treble hook just isn't practical.

 

It depends on the situation. I usually do not tip with a minnow unless the fish are not biting well.

 

I'm usually drifting across a lake for crappie. I use a little lead head hook under a bobber sometimes with a skirt sometimes without but always with a minnow on the hook. Minnows are so cheap and plentiful so why not use them? Besides that when was the last time you saw any small pan type fish pass up live bait. I even catch nice size eating cat fish this way, on a regular basis.

 

I inject crappie nibbles inside the tube.
Bill

 

I try different things all the time. They never seem the bite on any one thing for more than 15 minutes at a time, it's like they get bored or wise to a single bait.

 

I throw everything in my tackle boxes at them. Use nibbles on the hook or injected into the tube. I have even been known to hook on a minnow when I get desperate.

 

I let the bite dictate what i do in most cases. If the bite is good enuff, i don't mess with minnows.

 

I didn't vote cause I always just use minnows without a jig.
I have always had good luck with crappie on live bait only.
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