I was tightlining minnows on Cumberland yesterday and figured out that if I dropped my minnow to the depth that the crappie were holding at I couldn't get em to hit it. If I dropped it deeper then slow cranked it up to the right depth I would get a strike almost everytime.I was talking to a friend and he said he had to do the exact same technique on Barren the other day to get them to bite. I'm fairly new to serious crappie fishing, ive only ever fished for them in spring when they are spawning until now , and was just wondering if this is a common technique people use or did I just stumble onto something?