Thread: Best crappie scents

Juiced Up Baits panfish gel and minnow blast work very good here at home.

Originally Posted by MattRagle

Juiced Up Baits panfish gel and minnow blast work very good here at home.

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My boat storage box smells terrible because of bottles of crappie nibblers!!! Fish love them. Just have to make it thru the piranha bluegills with them to get to the crappie. LOL

Bluegills and Red ears go nuts over Crappie Nibbles. Channel Catfish love them to. Crappie are my main target, but I love the fish mix with nibbles.

It truly don't matter. I've tried nibbles, slab jam, sprays and more. Never caught one fish on scents. First thing is to find them. If the fish are biting, you can catch them with a hotdog. Minnows are the way to go. If they aren't hitting jigs, go with a minnow and keep an eye on your bobber! It really doesn't matter about scents. People tell me all the time, man you got to try this and that ... And I do of course with no luck at all. So it's just stick to your basics. Either use a minnow or just try different jigs to see what color they like. When you get a crappie on a certain jig type/color style, just stick with that until the bite stops.

Originally Posted by Jiggah

It truly don't matter. I've tried nibbles, slab jam, sprays and more. Never caught one fish on scents. First thing is to find them. If the fish are biting, you can catch them with a hotdog. Minnows are the way to go. If they aren't hitting jigs, go with a minnow and keep an eye on your bobber! It really doesn't matter about scents. People tell me all the time, man you got to try this and that ... And I do of course with no luck at all. So it's just stick to your basics. Either use a minnow or just try different jigs to see what color they like. When you get a crappie on a certain jig type/color style, just stick with that until the bite stops.

Disagree completely, had many days where a nibble on a jig was the only way to put fish in the boat. In the summer especially.

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sorry jiggah but you couldn't be more wrong. have done my due diligence as well as many others on this site and elsewhere. where you are fishing a spot, try it with and without nibbles, which is what I use, and you figure out if it works or not. Plus ALL the crappie guru's on my home lake use them and they fish almost every day, so I go by what THEY say as gospel, plus my own experiments.

my regular fishing partner is like you, fixed on what he THINKS will work whether there is examples disproving him right in front of him. we were on the same dock two weeks ago, I was using a particular color WITH a nibble and tight lining. He was right next to me fishing with a bobber, same jig WITHOUT a nibble and he didn't catch a fish, while I was pulling in one after another after another. I am not exactly a genius but when a guy is next to you doing WHATEVER and HE is catching while I am not? I immediately do whatever he is. It really is that simple.