Thread: Try Down Sizeing for September Crappie

I read this post after I posted my post. Downsizing put meat in the boat for me today. As I posted, I fished a brush pile with only a few of those hard taps that you know all about. After seeing at least a trillion little shad in the water about 1/2 " long, I downsized to my little slab bandits and filled the Ice chest up in a short while.

rtaark, can you post a pic of the little slab bandits or tell me where you get them? After we couldn't do any good on stakebeds today we finally found that no matter how deep of water we were in the crappie were only 2 or 3 feet deep. I finally figured out that they had abandoned all the stakebeds that I fished and were following the million tiny shad on the surface. It was real easy to fish under them if you were not careful.
We found while fishing deep that we were catching fish or getting hits when we were about to lift our jigs out of the water. Thats when we started to figure things out.
Ended up with close to 2 limits all over 10 inches with the last fish of the day over a pound and a quarter.

Originally Posted by slabbandit

rtaark, can you post a pic of the little slab bandits or tell me where you get them? After we couldn't do any good on stakebeds today we finally found that no matter how deep of water we were in the crappie were only 2 or 3 feet deep. I finally figured out that they had abandoned all the stakebeds that I fished and were following the million tiny shad on the surface. It was real easy to fish under them if you were not careful.
We found while fishing deep that we were catching fish or getting hits when we were about to lift our jigs out of the water. Thats when we started to figure things out.
Ended up with close to 2 limits all over 10 inches with the last fish of the day over a pound and a quarter.

Sorry for being so late. Here is the address. They are $2.50 for a 20 pack. They are about the same size as the young shad that are so thick on Dardanelle. I use the blueberry pearl and strawberry flash.
Results for PLASTICS
crazy angler is a crappie.com member and a good guy.

Here is the color choices.
SLAB BANDITS WHOLESALE RETAILERS TYING SUPPLIES

that #11 meatgetter jig (mississippi queen) as billy e calls it is a killer when them fish is feeding on little shad, rtark iam coming up there with crappie pro next week so get ready !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looking forward to fishing with you Jerry, Im pretty sure RTARK will Join us. He is a fish locating machine, I hope you enjoy fishing out of my Battleship (The Dark Angel) Crappie fins shiver when she is on the water. (LOL)

Just when I read the Crappie tip for September, it turns October. Just my luck.

HAHA!!! ya lil late on that one RCC try it for Oct...too. Took me almost all of Sept to figure it out.