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I like using the zonkers, but I am afraid that the profile may be a little too big for crappie. I don't know that cause I haven't tried them yet.:confused: Anyway, I tyed a few just using the cross-cut so it would have a smaller profile.
1/16 oz heads with two-toned cross-cut
http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/IMG_5857.jpg
A lot smaller profile than these.
http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/IMG_5832.jpg
I think when it's wet it gonna look different and most of the time I don't think good size crappie will care and they will eat it. I do feel sometimes crappie get in a picky mood and a smaller jig is better, but most of the time I think it makes no real difference. I know they eat some pretty large shad at times.
I think you should by all means fish them and I think you should also have some like you ask about. I tie rabbit in small, medium & large so they can have what ever they want. Really I think most of the time these will do fine!
Skip
Hey took me a little bit to find the picture I wanted, but have found it now. A couple of springs back I tied a jig that I was planning on playing with some bass off my bulkhead in shallow water. I didn't catch a bass though, but I did catch my first two crappie that year and nice size ones they were too. Take a look at this jig/worm combo they ate and I caught them.
Skip
How about this profile? It's a good 1/2" longer than the lighter so maybe 3 1/2" long?
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Poor rabbits,lol.
Hey Scott a couple that worked for me, now keep in mind I have not used them near as much as I would have liked as I hardly fished at all last year. I know that I also had luck with White and Violet and a few other.
Skip
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...s/DSC04159.jpg
One still tied on at the time I took the picture...
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...8/DSC03008.jpg
Thanks a lot Skip, I guess the big ones would work. I'm just used to seeing the smaller jigs for crappie, I guess. Come to think of it, I've been catching them lately trolling Bandit crankbaits. That's a mouthfull! LOL. I'll have to get some of the "pale" colors. The one you posted looks great.
Yeah Scott you know if they will hit a crank bait they will hit a rabbit jig with or without the zonker tail.
When I was guiding way back in like 1979, the guides on this lake had a little secret bait that after a cold front or ruff times in the spring we would use a all Black Marabou jig with a small black worm tail and fish it over and around the hydrilla, much like mine above and that is why I chose that for that day, but got surprised by the crappie in before I knew they were and they ate it, all 3 1/2" long of it. Now that is a long bait and they had no trouble at all, LOL! That old black marabou jig saved us a lot of the time to get some fish in the boat.
Getting too old not to pass along what I can tip wise.
Skip
Scott and Skip,
Are you guys using crosscut strips for the body and regular cut zonker for the tails?
Yes Len and I use Zonker tail with chenille bodies too as well as crosscut by it self like the top pic I posted.
Skip
crappie will definitely eat a big bait. Last one I caught this year, about 3 weeks ago, came on a 3/8ths gold shiner booyah spinnerbait.
Skip I like the one with the twister tail or a warm . We've been thinking about making something up like that with a little warm mold I have now I will try to post a picture in the next day or two.
Hey Scott and Len, the one still tied on my pole is a crosscut and chenille body and not a zonker.
Skip
They all will catch fish. Sure not to big of a bait.
Shouldn't have any problem with those size baits. I'd carry both size's since you already have them tied.
Fatman
I asked a guy in wal-mart once what he caught his crappie on. His response was"DT16, 1/2 oz spinnerbait, 1/2 oz rattle jig and craw." I guess big works in his neighborhood. He said he caught em all while bass fishin.
Len the top ones I posted have only cross-cut wrapped on the hook shank then a chenille body tyed on after that. The bottom pics have a zonker tail, then cross-cut wrapped for a body. I glued and wrapped the heck out of the cross-cut with thread.
The only time we go to smaller profile baits for crappie is when the water temp gets into the 40s
We catch too many of them on 10" worms bass fishing using 4/0 hooks.