Minner size, color, smell, taste and all other things minner...

[constructskeeter]

Ok for those of you that dawn the minner when you go out what's the general consensus? I've heard guys talk about biggins and I've heard guys talk about lil ones. Then there's the rosie reds and pink ones and for those that like to taste and smell their minner I don't know about yall.
As for myself I like a red hook, Mr. Crappie makes a good twisted one that hooks well. I like a bigger minner come Summertime that's going to make some commotion down there around that brush and like most all of us I like a lively one. Indian say fish won't bite dead minner very well. Then there's the popular Northern style of fishing a jig tipped with a minner which I've never tried; course I don't dock up out in the middle of the lake for shore lunches either but everyone's entitled to do as they please afterall, if they've managed to catch em who am I to tell them how and where to cook em up.

Does minner size depend on time of they year?? I would guess later in Summer and Fall a bigger one matches the hatch better as does a smaller one come early Spring.
I think most importantly I've found out you gotta be around some crappie to catch many of them. The other day I went and jigged it all day for not a single crappie while my buddy and his dad had a dozen between em on a different lake. Next day they fished that lake I was on and even with minner only managed 1 crappie. So being on good crappie waters means everything obviously but back to the minner discussion what do you guys prefer?

[MEATGETTER]

I prefer a #8 or med. most of the time . But also depends on the lake the #8 is best at Washington but the big four lakes in ms.#10 works best which most of us call #10s trotline minners and most of these ark.crappie would choke on that size minners!!!!!!!

[Buckrub]

#6 or #8..........some days it doesn't matter. Some days it does (and I picked wrong). I wish there was a #7!!!!! That'd be perfect. The 'mediums' have way too many "rice slicks" (huge) in 'em. The little ones are often too tiny.

I use the #6 Tru Turn gold hook. I have red, they do ok but not all the time. I have dark, same. The gold ones, always work. I don't know why.

I have now said all I know. I truly know very little. I just do what I do, and if they bite, I eat them. If they don't, I eat burgers. You'd think I'd have learned a lot more by now, but.........obviously not.

[slabbandit]

I like a #8 on a plain hook and a #6 if tipping a jig.

[LRJoe1]

#6 with a red Mr Crappie turn hook. Get's em in the top of the mouth every time. If I could get rosies, that is all I would fish with. Can't find any in NWA.

[RCC]

I used a minner once when I was young, but I didn't inhale.

[Tony McCall]

Heres a little piece of minner history: The rosie red strain was first developed and marketed in Arkansas.

[RCC]

I do like a big minner, but it don't bother me to hook on a little one. Ya'll got that right on the Mr Crappie hooks. They're good, but they are on my bad side since they jumped my bud Jiggin Pole Joe up on the main forum.

[Tony McCall]

I cut my minners up and use them like crappie nibblers on my jig, kind of like cut bait for crappie. This works best with big lively minners.

[RCC]

I wait and use my big minners last. This way, I always go home with a mess of fish.