Thread: New to Crappie need help please

Hello, I'm new to crappie fishing, I've alway fished Bass and trout, I'm finding it hard to locate Crappie, I'm fishing from the shore. 1/16 jigs with a 2" slider grub seems to be the only thing there hitting, I've tried different colors and jig heads but nothing, just the white/green grub with a white head is all i'm having luck with, is there any other lures you guy's can recomend?
thanks for your help
Scott

I use a 1/32 jig inside a green or red and white tube. A 1/32 jigs sinks very slow and the crappies seem to hit them on the way down. I also put crappie nibbles in side the tube using the Bait Pump.
Bill

Scottburger,

Welcome to crappie dot com. Personally, I like to use the float and fly method with the jigs I make. There are illustrations of this setup on my website. Personally, I find that suspending the jig beneath a float holds it in the strike zone a bit longer. Crappie always take time and inspect a bait before they inhale it. The key to crappie fishing is to fish real slow in your presentation.

Mike

What everybody else said, will increase your limits

Hey ship you need to come over here and fish some vertical summer structure with me. If they taking time to inspect it over here you gonna flip out when they THUMP it here or the line goes slack and the "balls in your court" then.

Originally Posted by sac-a-lait

Hey ship you need to come over here and fish some vertical summer structure with me. If they taking time to inspect it over here you gonna flip out when they THUMP it here or the line goes slack and the "balls in your court" then.

I'll look you up next summer when I get over that way. Thanks.

Originally Posted by scottburger

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Hello, I'm new to crappie fishing, I've alway fished Bass and trout, I'm finding it hard to locate Crappie, I'm fishing from the shore. 1/16 jigs with a 2" slider grub seems to be the only thing there hitting, I've tried different colors and jig heads but nothing, just the white/green grub with a white head is all i'm having luck with, is there any other lures you guy's can recomend?
thanks for your help
Scott

I assume you're referring to white/chartreuse Slider Paddletail grub, that looks like this :



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If they like white/green ... GIVE 'EM white/green :p I fished 3 different lakes, in three different states, with the BPS Sparkle Squirt 1.5" hollow tube in the Electric Blue/chartreuse ... for many years ... and caught Crappie on it, on almost every trip. Still use it, too. Only reasons I don't use it as much, nowadays, is that I prefer a solid body tube (because it stays on the jighead better, and without glue) ..... and, tubes don't skip as well as Panfish Assassins, when shooting docks (therefore they don't always get as far back under the dock as I want them). Will NJ crappie hit this tube/color combo ??? .... don't know, but KY, TN, & ALA Crappie will :D But, like I said ... if you're catching 'em on white/green, stick with white/green. You don't move off a productive spot, to find a productive spot ... why change a productive color, to find a productive color

There's thousands of baits out there, that Crappie will hit, at some point in time, in certain circumstances/conditions. They range in size from flies to 1 ounce spinnerbaits But, one would have to have a pretty large tacklebox, just to have "one of each" of all the baits a Crappie is likely to hit.

Slider grubs are a good choice of plastics. I use them, myself. Personally, I like the Junebug/Chartreuse. (but then, I may be fishing water that's more stained than you're fishing)

... luck2ya ... cp