How do you decide how big is too big? I have around from 1 inch to 2 inches and I was wondering how
Do you decide?
Does it differ between baby shad, tubes, hair, pad hoppers, etc?
Thanks!
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How do you decide how big is too big? I have around from 1 inch to 2 inches and I was wondering how
Do you decide?
Does it differ between baby shad, tubes, hair, pad hoppers, etc?
Thanks!
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That is a very loaded question lol. As far as size of the lure... match the fish to the size of current size of their food. An example would be that black crappie usually favor smaller shad/minnows than white crappie so go down to the smaller size plastic if you are targeting blacks. Later in the year their food has grown bigger so the larger plastic may be needed to simulate the current food size.
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Size same as color and everything else......
Time on the water and let the fish tell you
2 inches too big for blacks you think?Quote:
Originally Posted by silverside
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Ahah I love itQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"
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No !Quote:
Originally Posted by castingcole
Thank god cause most of my current lures are 2 inches , mostly baby shad and jokers. Have some 1.75 curly tails, marabous. And I have a load of 1 -1.5 tube jigsQuote:
Originally Posted by USMA65
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White crappie i normally use 2.5" to 3". Black crappie i use 1.75" to 2"...mainly use hot rods...
Awesome. I have tons of 2 inch baby shads and tons of jokers. Any luck on those for black crappie?Quote:
Originally Posted by slabeye
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I've actually caught one of my biggest Crappie on a 1.5" Tiny Shad Assassin plastic body ... my avatar pic is one of those fish :
Spring 2007 Watts Bar Lake, Tenn.
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But, Slabeye has a point ... generally speaking a White Crappie will hit a bigger bait, more often. Black Crappie seem to like a slightly smaller bait profile. But, also ... it depends a lot on the lake itself, time of year, population makeup, etc.
On a local lake I've seen a buddy of mine catch a large White Crappie on a 1/2oz Spinnerbait, while Bass fishing ... and I caught a large Black Crappie on a 4" plastic Craw while "worm fishing" for Bass on the same lake. So, you just never know ... :ThumbsUp
if i am targeting black crappie my bait wont be larger than about 1.75 inches long , and it might be in the 1 inch range sometimes .
white crappie seem to take larger baits more frequently though , but to be sure you can ketch some big black crappie sometimes on larger baits .
on the big lakes here with the big blacks you might ketch a real large black on a big bait ,seen that a time or 2 .
to better understand the species i suggest you read up on them . in this part of the world some of the main forage items for black crappie are ghost shrimp and EVEN large plankton .
white crappie tend to target shad most of the time .
I often use the curly tail arkie soft plastic that looks like the little fish baits. They are probably at least 3 inches. Much bigger than the other curly tails. There are times they out catch every other curly tail I have on and I think it is because they are much bigger and catch their eyes first. I have also caught several crappie on my alabama rigs when pulling for stripers. 4 inch curly tails on 1/4 oz heads pulled at 2.5 mph, so I am not sure you can get too big within reason at the right times.