There Comes A Time

When you just gotta keep catchn and catchn and catchn even with a full cooler to see how many changes you have to go through in a day to keep the fish interested in attacking a jig......
These silly fish will absolutely ignore a jig that seconds ago they would hunt down with the slightest glimpse of it.....
The ole saying of well they feed good early this morning or the bite got good at this time or shut down then is just due to the fisherman not putting the work in that it definitely takes to keep crappie interested in what they are offering.....
I know I've read several post that color don't matter and they feel it's all about profile or action to the bait but I'm seeing and still hold my belief that color is one of the most important things in catching crappie..... Well not THE most important but really high on the list, 1st is definitely fishing where there's crappie.....
What You Say?

At one time I thought color was the most important factor. But the last two years have changed my perspective about color. I now think shape, size and presentation is more important than color. I now view color as light, dark and natural. Of couse I could be wrong as I seldom tie on the same color when I am changing jigs.But I don't own the huge arsenal of hand ties and plastics that you own so it would be hard for me to stay with the same color as I tried different sizes and shapes. :Rofl

Yesterday I started with a Limits Tackle stinger that had produced well for me the last several trips. After 15 minutes with various presentations had only produced 1 small crappie I switched to a 1 inch hand tie with a red head, gold body and light tan tail. It looke like a bug instead of a minnow. Started out with my normal drop to the bottom, then slowly reeled back up. Found the crappie where hanging out between 8-10 ft in 20 ft of water. They would not hit the jig as it fell but the monent you started the slow crank up they would slam it.

Ended up with 23 caught in a 90 minute period. All small, only one keeper among them. I left them biting since thunderstorms were forecast and the sky to the west was growing very dark. Now 23 in 90 minites is a slow bite but I was catching when those around me using minnows were catching very few.

Seems as yesterday they were not looking for the minnow shape but wanted the smaller bug shape. Now it is possible that the bright red head and gold body was what attracted them instead of the smaller size and body shape. But I think it was the combination of size, shape and presentation that turned them on for me.

23 in 90mins is a fun time.....

Making those changes color and profiles are sure a big help sometimes.....

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Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures

23 in 90mins is a fun time.....

Making those changes color and profiles are sure a big help sometimes.....

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It's fun time but not as much fun as I would prefer. :Rofl It's a help all the time if you can see them on the display and they are not biting.

my vote is presentation
sometimes the presentation has EVERYTHING to do with it.
big baits act different than small baits .
colors can and do matter too ....
but making it do what the crappie want is typically the key factor :highfive

There's several factors to entice a not really active fish into feeding..... color and action both are high on that list.... If it was as easy as changing colors we'd have a ton more expert crappie fishermen or ones that think they are.....:yikes