Plastics through the ice?

[Crappie 1]

Anybody ever use plastic tails through the ice? I tried it a couple times with no luck.

[gwk]

yes, use them all the time hav'nt bought spikes or waxworms for years. I use a lot of horizontal fiska,skandia, diamond stlye jigs with them.

[Crappie 1]

Great!! Just got some from Bob's Jigs that look really good, want to try them out...Thanks..

[MnIceMan]

did you watch the video put together by Lake fork trophy lures? amazing... i never had luck with any plastics with any type
of fish thru the ice till recently... caught some really nice perch on a plastic jig that looks like a craw fish and tiped with a minnow
head

[Crappie 1]

Ya, that was some video. They were using plastic. Them boys were catching some really nice Crappies..

[Tank 1]

I've tried plastics a couple of times without any luck, then gave up on them. I'm sure a lot of it is a confidence thing. Just need to go out a few times with plastics only and give them a fair shot. Now all we need is some good ice.

[Crappie 1]

Ice thing is not looking too good. We got a warm week coming up.

[CTom]

Plastic is my preferred approach to crappies under the ice. I do things a little outside of convention and use a standard 1/32 head and full-sized crappie plastics, those baits up to two inches in length. I do not have my focus on the bottom where most fish are being marked on locators, instead I look for the random blips well off the bottom....those that show up for a second or two then go away as fast as they show. I get my bait to the level of those phantom flashes since those seem to be the largerst and hungriest crappies that show no problem at hitting a larger bait at all. If I have to go smaller in plastic size, I go home.

[harpenter]

I've seen them work fairly well for Perch, but I personally haven't had any success with them for Crappies.

[CrappieMagnet]

I agree with CTom....afterall....Plastics are Fantastic!