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YES! But... I prefer Slab Sauce or G Sauce. The fish or brush easily knock them off the hook as the sauce stays on :ThumbsUp
I use crappie nibbles, I also use Slab sauce and G sauce. I think they do help especially if the crappie are in a neutral mood or are inactive.
If I loose my nibble in a cast, I consider that a wasted cast and reel it in and put another on. Secret to using them is open the bottle and pour them out in something i.e tupper ware container and put a fan on them for about 20-30 minutes stirring occasionaly. Need them to dry to the point that the outside is kind of leathery but NOT hard as a rock. Then put back in the bottle and fish. Properly dried out I can somtimes catch 4-5 fish on one nibble. I've tried every spray and scent on the market and all will help but nothing I've found out produces the nibble. That being said if they are actively feeding you don't have to put on anything but does it make a difference ? I'll consistently catch 5-1 as someone in the same boat fishing without one. usaly doesn't take long for a partner to ask to borrow a few of those. I keep a guest bottle in the boat just for that. Scott
One other important note. DO NOT DO THIS INSIDE YOUR HOUSE OR YOUR WIFE WILL RUN YOU OUT. Scott
Without a doubt, I catch more fish with them. I fish more for bluegills than crappie, but they work. My jig looks naked without one.
Decent replacement for a waxworm. Still like waxworms better but nibbles are less trouble.
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I never believed in crappie nibbles until I kept reading about them on this forum. My experience from the last year of using them is that sometimes they make all the difference in the world. There are days that the fish absolutely will not bite a jig without a crappie nibble on it. I have no idea why they care so much on some days and not on others.
I learned from Scott, so yeah, I use them, but I also like G-sauce and other scents. I try anything/everything when they are being fussy.
I became so dependent on them so much that if I ran out I was done fishing till I could get more. Then earlier this year I started forcing myself to fish without them just to prove that I could catch fish without nibbles. Well, I actually did it I caught two crappie... and that was all I needed to prove that I could still catch fish using just a jig. On my next fishing trip first thing I did was stop and restock my supply of nibbles; I think they put something in them that absorbs into your fingers that makes them totally addictive must be the same for the crappie!
Why... the aren't smelly, and they look like mini marshmallows.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultraslab
I just dump the whole bottle out onto a paper plate, and let them sit overnight, and they be perfectly rubbery.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultraslab
I have NEVER had any luck with them. They didn't even make good chum.
I know more than one spot in Texas you can pull up a chair and just watch the next guy ketch them if you dont use them because that is EXACTLY how its gunna go if the next guy has them and you dont ....just saying :highfive
I keep chartreuse, pink, & white nibbles in the boat at all times. Usually don't use due to efficiency (I fish with a pole in each hand, single poling - no spider rigging). I never thought to pre-dry the nibbles, I pour some out on the deck, I like the post above for efficiency in motion. They do work, seems to me better on Ross Barnett than in Lower Pearl River Delta.
if they sit in the sun on the deck about 5 minutes in the Texas summer heat and sun they are right tough puppies
Try my drying out method in your bedroom if you keep a fan in there for white noise while sleeping. When your wife opens the door to go in all H*** will break loose. Just sayin. Not that I've ever done that before. Scott
Check out the bait pump. Invented by one of our members here! I believe in them.
I use them in addition to both Slab and G Sauces. I need any advantage I can get!
The secret to having drier nibbles is to separate them into two jars. They need room to dry out. When I run out of them in one jar, I open a fresh jar and pour half of the new jar into it and set it aside. When one of the half jars gets low, I open up a new jar and split that jar with them. Then pickup the half jar I poured previously and use them. I keep repeating this process and I always have drier nibbles ready to go. I always have at least three jars getting ready to go. And that’s of both colors I use. I’ve found that different colors work better on different lakes so I have some ready for the lakes I fish.
If you don’t have a second jar to split them up, put half of your jar in a baggie and leave in the sun for a few hours during your trip for the day.
I prefer not to use them but I keep a bottle in the boat for those days when the crappie will not bite without one of them on the hook. I also have a bottle of G Sauce as there are days when that is all that will work. I use minnows when nothing else will work. Then there are days like yesterday when nothing would work. Fished 5 hours, numerous brush piles at different locations, bridge pillars, and my slips. Did not catch a single crappie but did catch some nice sized bluegills.
They are not the magic bait. But It's confidence thing and they are always on my hook.
I also do the two jar trick and add new nibbles as needed. I shake the jar and if I get a rattle it is usually good to go. If the nibbles get to hard I wet a piece of paper towel and place it under the lid. I check for hardness every so often to get the consistency I want. A great product; I wouldn't go fishing without it.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
Really good info in this thread! I'd not heard about drying them out to keep them on the hook better, but I'll definitely be doing that now.
I dry out chartreuse nibbles and use them every trip and have been for several years. Gills love them!Attachment 391697Attachment 391698
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A nice mess o’fish DFD. That sounds like a nice tip on the nibbles as well, EZ.
Bob
I use 2” tubes in RR and inject the nibbles filling the tubes up. Works great!
I seem to have better luck with them when they are fresh, soft and smelly. When I try to use some that are dried out they just don't perform as well for me. Now I am not casting since that would sling the soft ones off, I mainly do some slight pitching under docks or vertical jiggling.
Do y’all notice that you catch more catfish when using nibbles ?
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Use nibbles all the time, some slab sauce also.
Don’t try the red nibbles, unless you are wanting to boat some bass! LOL
That’s a running joke on my boat, and does seem to happen a lot!
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I like the white the best but the chart are dynamite as well .
I know folks that chum with them in timber when they spot fish on trees.
I run them all the way up to my jig body and not just on the hook point.
UNLESS it really twiggy down there and then I use them as a weedless trick with a fat body plastic and a small hook gap .
there is a method to the madness my friends
and yes i have been known to double up on them as well .
some say its cheating but it aint illegal and i am there to ketch fish not sight see :cheers2
That’s a real good point, CaptC. I have come to believe that confidence in your lure is a real factor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt Cormorant
Bob
Back in the day I could go bream fishing at spawn time. Cast 10 times to catch 1 with just a big. Put on a wax worm and they would be on by the time I closed my spinning reel. Always messed with waxworms. They died and were trouble. Ran out and tried a white nibble. They bit like with the worms. Never went back to worms.
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Yes I ketch cats when using nibbles, mainly near rocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLine
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