Thanks for the replies. All this helps. I'm going out in the am to try my luck.

My father is coming down the last weekend of the month and we have a cabin rented on Sinclair. We'll light the dock up at night but these tips help a ton for daytime fishing.

He is 72 and loves eating Crappie. I'm a bass fisherman in all aspects. I've flipped jigs and spinerbaits in the grass over the years and cought several bass...yet watched folks drag in crappie just behind me dragging jigs. I'm just trying to get the technique down as he loves him some white perch/crappie/slabs.