Black Crickets

Has anyone used black crickets for bait fishing for crappie.

If you're talking about the canned black crickets.... then stay away from them. They will not stay on a hook. Its about impossible to even hook them without them falling apart. I say they are pretty much useless but have never tried to use them for crappie.

Haven't ever used the black ones for crappie but I have caught many many brim on em as a youngster. We would catch the crickets.I guess the " wild" crickets are black crickets. About the same size as the brown ones you buy

thanks for the input, I guess I read to much on the internet.

I use to keep a cricket can on the lawn mower. Used a many a black cricket. I did catch some crappie with them on occasion but in those days I was truly just fishing.

Those were the good ol days.

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Originally Posted by Fish2eat

I use to keep a cricket can on the lawn mower. Used a many a black cricket. I did catch some crappie with them on occasion but in those days I was truly just fishing.

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Did you realize that you are the reason the government mandated those dead-man switches on lawn mowers?