I have good luck with a 1/64 head inside a 1" red & white tube body. By July I sometimes switch to a 1 1/2" body. Nothing fancy, but it works for me.
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I have good luck with a 1/64 head inside a 1" red & white tube body. By July I sometimes switch to a 1 1/2" body. Nothing fancy, but it works for me.
I've benn doing well with a white Mepps Thunder Bug, Bass hit it pretty good too; like a Creme worm with a tiny spinner and double hooked too.
Has anyone tried the reverse tube rigging yet?Like having the tentacles right next to the head?That's popular up here.Try it..it's pretty radical looking but catches lotsa bluegills without them ripping and tearing off the tentacles.The tubes last way longer!
My hands down favorite on any body of water, is the 1 inch baby craws. I buy them at Wal-Mart in their Riverside box full of different panfish plastics. I think Riverside sold out to Tree Top lures though, sold at the Spike It website. These craws are the exact same body as the riverside craws. Much more expensive though. 88 cents for twenty at wally world. 2 something dollars for 10 at spike it. Anyhow, I've bought enough over the past two years to last me another five years. And I fish for bream alot. Also, the 1 inch slider plastics are deadly. Green Pumpkin, strawberry glitter, and purple glitter. As posted already, those Exude craw/nymph looking deals also are excellent. Also try the 3 inch helgies by Lunker city. Kind of long, but the bream will hammer them. To hook more, bite off about a 1/4 inch of the helgie.
I just got a recent, newer supply of Lobybaits,and I'm getting excited to give them a whirl.For those that haven't tried Loby's for pannies,you are missing out big time!
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I prefer hair / marabou most of the time, but there are times I go to plastics. I use Bass Pro Shops tri-color tiny tubes or Crappie Assassins usually, though sometimes a curly tail works well. As far as color preference goes, it's my observation (as someone else noted, too) that the fish vary their taste from body of water to the next. On Stockton Lake here in MO, I've seen them go bonkers for red, white, and black for years, while on Truman Lake I've had success with chartreuse and white, regardless of water clarity. It's my guess that forage must play some part to the crappie's finicky nature when lakes that aren't that distant require the use of different color patterns to produce fish.
Something happened to me a few years ago in TN that I thought I'd relate, though I wasn't after crappie, I was fishing sauger. I noticed several fishermen were using red and white tubes tipped with a minnow, so I tied on the same and did fair. That's been a color I've done pretty decent with in cold water; then it occurred to me that something a little different might be just the thing. I have family in Springfield, MO, so I got on the horn to my grandpa and asked him if he wouldn't mind going over to the BPS headquarters to see if he could find me some 1 1/2" white and red tubes . . . I remembered passing them by a few times, but I thought the reversal of the colors I had seen working might get a reaction from the fish. Sure enough, a week later my hunch was proved correct. Now I'm wondering, after CrappieMagnet's tip on turning the tube around, if that might not have worked just as well as the trouble I took! I'm going to try reversing a tube next time I'm out on my local favorite water, thanks for the tip. I really appreciate the great responses on this thread-- I have seen several plastics mentioned here that just may give the hair / marabou jigs I usually favor some competition :)
Crappie.com..............Nice site! Looking forward to swapping crappie tips. The crappie fishing here has been good as wll as the bluegills...Wormi's have been the hot bait this past two weeks.
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Yo Mike.Glad to see your able to post now.Welcome to the most comprehensive crappie addiction site you can find!Make yourself to home!
Went out on the Dutch last night and took advantage of the night bite for the slabs....float tubes and plastic wormi's did the trick...supper is sitting in a tupperware dish on ice as I write this... Used Atom stealth glow jigs with orange fleck wormi's jigged over brush piles in 15 feet of water. Never knew I was there! The two of us had 34 keepers in about an hour and a half, including our kicking time in the float tubes...what a blast!
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swedish pimples tipped with a worm bit and also whip'r stopper jigs tipped with the same. the whip'r stoppers come packaged with 3 outfits of a jig head, and three tubes/tails and the tubes/tails are scented but its better to tip it with a worm bit