If I believe that using some live bait will help me with crappie during the spawn I guess I would probably go get some, LOL! However I never needed any for crappie that time of year. However with badaxed's story I feel like that is very true and can happen that way a lot of times, but the big boys also will hit an artificial bait many times so it's more the time than the bait I believe. I do also believe the same fish the next day may just hit that artificial, but that's hard to prove.

Heck in Florida that has been the way to a big bass for many year, they use the big shiners and a bobber!

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