there is a 50k acre lake in Va. that is probably the best crappie fishing around here and one of the local favorite jigs is a 3/32 bucktail with a size 4 jighook, plain unpainted head, red thread, flat waxed nylon 210 denier, and plain white doe tail or bucktail from local deer. there is a bait shop on the lake that carries these jigs, made by a local young man, and the store can't keep them in stock. they cast and count down and retrieve very slowly over brush piles and fish vertically beside bridge pilings. everyone down there would use them if they were more available to them. the trick to the bucktail is to make them about 2 inches, to 2 1/2 inches and tied kinda sparse, so you can hold it up to the light and see light through the hair.