Quote Originally Posted by LittleJohn View Post
A question if you see a few or a school of crappie on your sonar but do not see any structure. Would you set up on them to fish or let them go. Not including spider rigging or long lining or pulling cranks
LittleJohn
John, the only technique you left us to choose would be to cast to them. I guess you could drop a marker and fan cast the area, but I wouldn't likely spend a whole lot of time with them (unless they were HUGE fish). I say that's the only technique, because drifting or float/minner fishing is basically the same as Spider Rigging IMHO.

If those fish are out there all alone, no cover, bait balls, or dropoffs .... I would suspect they were in transition to another area, or "possibly" setting up in the area waiting on the bait to arrive. Even so, casting to them IMHO would be the least effective method of fishing for them ... and I'd probably Push jigs back and forth across them, even if only with 2 or 3 rods. Even then I'd probably only make 2 or 3 passes on them, then move on and search for a bigger concentration of fish (or bait balls).