Thread: If I was a crappie today

HAHA!!! DP Those Dardanelle guys look at me kinda funny when i say minnows. A good fishing buddy Don Blakely and myself have been using minnows on double minner rigs and tipping jigs with them. I am trying to be more flexiable on the water nowadays and let the fish tell me what they want on any given day.

Originally Posted by CrappiePro

I like the drop shot Ideal too, do you spider rig with it? and do you just allow the sinker to bounce along the bottom when you use it? Just curious? Har far up from the hook do you set ur first bait?

Never really done the spider rigging thing I guess but I normally always tie 2 jigs on at once about 2 sometimes 3' difference and here lately no i've not been using any added weight since by the time you upscale your jigs size to at least 1/8 on both jigs you have enough weight already to reach deeper water. If i'm bass fishing I really like to stay in contact with the bottom though since they are not considered a cold water fish like crappie are. If i'm using the heavy weight at the bottom of a rig I like to only use 1/2OZ or less, really a 1/4 OZ bell weight works for me about 18" up from my bait. Some people may want to use bigger weight but I only fish 6LB line most of the time cause I like the feel of light line better. True you can pull up the bottom with heavy line but you lose feel also.

Originally Posted by DRPEPPER

WOW!!!
Crappie Pro is spider rigging and using minners?? I have been away too long. Did them old men teach you that?
DP

I assure you the grumpy old men are looking down their noses at spiderrigging minnows.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

I assure you the grumpy old men are looking down their noses at spiderrigging minnows.

No doubt,,its effective, but so is dynamite...........so. I don't use either.