Thread: To minner or not to minner......

That is the question. Lakeway at Grenada, my official bait stop for twenty years (both crappie bait and pogey bait) is now selling minnows by the ten count. Same price as a dozen used to be, but now only get ten, AND they are counting minnows. No more estimates. No more bonus minnows. Actually counting each and every minnow. 1 minnow, 2 minnows, 3 minnows, ............. 100 minnows. Time consuming and expensive. Might be time to switch to jigs.........

I met a pair of old gents at Wolf Creek Tuesday afternoon, and they had a cooler FULL of slab crappie. Close to two limits. They were spider rigging with chartreuse jigs and crappie nibbles. Fish did not seem to mind that there were no minners on the jigs. I know I know....., crappie at Grenada must have minnows. But Im telling you, these guys did not even have a minner bucket. I was already irritated about the minner count at lakeway, then these two guys wear em out with no minners at all. Might be time to try to teach an old dog a new trick........