Quote Originally Posted by Crappitier View Post
feesh,

I have found the same thing. But today I was catchin' a bunch of 'gills in 35' of water with a drop shot and worm hunk.

I saw a lot of fish 18' down, so I put my drop shot midway down. A few gills, but I changed to a Gulp minnow and caught a dozen crappie. It seems to me that crappie won't hit a worm, only a small minnow?

Tomorrow I'm going to use a slip float set 18' with a small jig head and a Gulp Alive minnow. I'll post some pix?
Some pretty awesome info with all of the posts - especially Crappitier with the suspended crappies! I catch most of my panfish on artificials too, Gulp! minnows and Power Niblets being my favorite. When bluegills get really tough, I have found that it is almost impossible for them to resist a tiny live leech - fished with a slip sinker and a 3 foot snell.

Right now we are catching gils on wing dams on the Mississippi River with powerbait or a chunk of crawler. Finding the first stretch of water on the dam out of the current, with the fish on the top and backside mostly. Floating a bobber and small jig over the top has been working well too.