I fished last weekend and was doing a little experimenting with my fishing partner. We rigged live minnows, Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows , and plastic tubes. Surprisingly the Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows (3 inch Smelt) were slaying the crappie. The bigger ones seemed to bite on it more consistently. We found that the soft plastics were getting pecked away by the blue gills, and the live minnows caught a mix of bluegill, bass and crappie. The Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows seemed to catch more crappie with bigger sizes.

Now I am not a crappie fishing pro by any means. In fact, this is my first year really getting into it, I'm still learning all the techniques on fishing for crappie. It could have just been beginners luck, but that was the outcome.