Quote Originally Posted by no1son View Post
Once you work out the Rapalas on the ice, don't put them away especially early in open water either. What we mostly do is just slowly raise the lure between about 1 and 4 or 5 ft and let it flutter back down on a just slack line. You work that up and down the water column. Most takes are true strikes on the flutter. Some will be on the rest at the bottom, too; so always be ready for that additional tension when you start a lift, especially if you let the settle go all the way to the bottom, where you might not feel the pickup. (just like you should do with plastics! We take so many fish that we first feel just as the jig comes off a rest on the bottom! That is even more true for perch around here than for crappies.)
You are so right! We hit Glen Elder last March in a post cold front condition and the crappie wouldn't touch plastics, I put on a jigging Shadrap and they tore it up until my trolling motor died and I couldn't hold my position!!