Minner size, color, smell, taste and all other things minner...
Ok for those of you that dawn the minner when you go out what's the general consensus? I've heard guys talk about biggins and I've heard guys talk about lil ones. Then there's the rosie reds and pink ones and for those that like to taste and smell their minner I don't know about yallnonono.
As for myself I like a red hook, Mr. Crappie makes a good twisted one that hooks well. I like a bigger minner come Summertime that's going to make some commotion down there around that brush and like most all of us I like a lively one. Indian say fish won't bite dead minner very well. Then there's the popular Northern style of fishing a jig tipped with a minner which I've never tried; course I don't dock up out in the middle of the lake for shore lunches either but everyone's entitled to do as they please afterall, if they've managed to catch em who am I to tell them how and where to cook em up.
Does minner size depend on time of they year?? I would guess later in Summer and Fall a bigger one matches the hatch better as does a smaller one come early Spring.
I think most importantly I've found out you gotta be around some crappie to catch many of them. The other day I went and jigged it all day for not a single crappie while my buddy and his dad had a dozen between em on a different lake. Next day they fished that lake I was on and even with minner only managed 1 crappie. So being on good crappie waters means everything obviously but back to the minner discussion what do you guys prefer?
