Quote Originally Posted by mchech View Post
There is a large number of fellows recommending tipping your plastic. Crappie nibbles, maggies or even some scent. I am not experience enough with this crappie game to swear to which one but scent does matter. Years ago I doubted scent's effectiveness till my brother was spanking me catching steelhead up on Lake Erie. I was tying all his jigs at the time. The best jig head was tied on a 1/32 oz plated jig cast on a worthless (too soft) hook that sometimes lasted 1 fish till it straightened out. I withheld them till he shared the answer. He was squirting on a little "magic juice" as he called it. That evened the score!
Just got back from being on the lake all day! I stopped in a bait shop next to the lake this morning to get minnows, just to see and picked up a jar of white crappie nibbles too. Holy hell. Interesting to say the least. Minnows were ok if they were small enough for these tiny fish, but a natural colored jig (1/16oz black/white head) with a crappie nibble absolutely killed them! I must have caught over 100. I lost count in the 30's. There were lulls, but when it was on it was nuts. I ended up switching the "bait rod" to another jig under a float and when they turned on I couldn't reel them in fast enough.

Again though, these are all TINY fish. Biggest was 9-1/2. As much fun as it was, I'd really like to get into some bigger ones. Now that I've got a feel for how to fish for em, I'm going to hit the other lake that has 16 inchers. I know they're going to be harder to find, but at least I have a good feel for how to fish for them. I suspect today was a fluke. They were just really hitting I think. I also managed to land about a 1-1/2lb largemouth on an ultralight with 4lb mono. That was "interesting". He hammered the jig right where the crappie were.

Thanks for the recommendation on crappie nibbles. I've read about them, but I read this post before I left and it was fresh in my mind. Interesting thing was that they really wanted the tipped jig. I did pick up a few without the nibbles, but as soon as I'd pitch out a jig tipped with nibbles it was fish on. Crazy.

Here's 2 dinks from today. I'll quit posting these silly little fish.



I just thought this one was cool lookin.