baiting crappie hot spots

Don't waste your time or money. Tried them all. Like noslab said build structure & location location location.

I know that this is an old post, but yesterday I was at one of my fishing holes n a guy pulled up n asked if I had a bite n I told him that I was out there almost an hr n nothing. At 1st I only noticed the 3/4 drive ratchet he had in his hand then he said this will get em to biting n pulled out some type of can that appeared to be dog food but he went to another pocket not far from me n poked some holes in it then I heard the big splash. But I moved to a different section n realized I had some crackers in my truck so I threw some out n the lil fish was tearing em up but I never noticed any bass well except for the 2 or 3" ones. But I was wondering if I was to do the same thing with Spam if it would aattract the lil fish just not sure how the "jelly" would keep it from draining.

Champlin Net Company in Jonesville has soybean cakes, Cotton seed cakes, and some super duper cheese, corn, and soy bean compressed logs. The Fish Net Company LLC has the same stuff too.

Cotton seed meal cakes work good but best thing I have found is to sink a bale of pure alfalfa hay......it will last all year.

In regard to going natural, a friend who caught tons of white perch on Black Lake and Saline Lake near Clarence told me that his secret was to make sunken tops out of sweet gum saplings in the early spring when the leaves are just starting to form. He claimed the leaves attracted the grass shrimp. Like others have said, he put out dozens of tops because there's a lot of hit and miss in hitting the right spot.

All that stuff does, imo, is draw catfish and I don't care for them. Big cats
will really mess up the crappie fishing

I use cotton seed meal in a cheese cloth bag. Get the cheese cloth that is a tube shape. Tie a knot in it fill with meal tie another knot. tie a string on a knot with a 1/2 brick. place in a gal. ziplock bag. Catch a few in a top drop a bag come back later and check it out I have had these work for two weeks or more.

So, some of you are throwing metal dog food cans into the lake with no way to retrieve them?? No wonder I have so much trash wash up on my bank!

I have done the dog food thing for cats also, but I screw a small eyelet into the can and tie a string to it with a bottle on the end so when I am done fishing, or the can is empty, I can pull the can back up and dispose of it.

Very good point bassadict69.