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What is the craziest things you have caught a Crappie on ? I heard about people using all kinds of junk like piece of a plastic bag. I repeated a stunt I have done several times . Caught a Crappie on a bare unpainted jig head . Then cut off a chunk of Banana Peel and put it on a jig head . Caught 2 real quick . Wanted to dispel the Banana on a boat bad luck myth .:Rofl Livescope shows it more about presentation than the bait. :twocents
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Used to do very well on string cheese on small jig heads. For some reason we would run out of bait quickly though
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Interesting to say the least
Learned this by accident when I was a kid.
The eyeball from a fish you caught will catch fish.
I foul hooked one and the eyeball got stuck on the hook. The fish were biting good and I had trouble getting it off so I threw it out and kept catching.
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A piece of sponge.
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we used Swedish fish before , trying to prove it really wasnt so much about what you pitch , but more about where you pitch it :highfive
we even went so far as to "spider" rig with spiderman kids rigs to poke fun at some locals here that liked to talk trash at us back when , we quit at a 3 man limit that day with the "baby" rods ....:Rofl
Been there and done that as a kid also !Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLine
Full size Buzzbait Bass fishing.
seen a spring time bass guy ketch a 3.02 on one a few years ago myself :highfiveQuote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
I've use a piece of sponge dipped in slabsauce on purpose quite well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redge
a fella a long time ago here in Texas called it mopping them up , just saying :highfiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Slab
Bologna and a hot dog chunk….
Rogue top water bait, 8" pumpkin seed lizard and several on spinner baits.
I just remembered catching a bluegill on a piece of lettuce from a McDonald's McChicken sandwich years ago. Im not sure what i put it on, but i think it was just a 1/32 head
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While doing research on one of my new favorite hobbies, i learned one of the popular "flies" currently is a mop fly. It is made by tying one of those worm like strands off a mop onto a hook. It is actually banned from competition fishing because it works so good.
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Knitting yarn and it comes in 40 different colors :twocents
I always believed scent was the biggest attraction with fish growing up,,,,for years I wouldn’t go fishing unless I had some bacon to tip my lures with,,,,it always brought home the fish….
The eyes have it sorta speak . Big eyes usually means sight feeder and tiny eyes like those on Catfish lean more to scent feeders .:twocents Crappie primary way to find a bait is sight and second most likely lateral line .:fish But if scents gives you confidence then go for it .:highfiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Takeum
white crappie were designed by mother nature to be simply deadly predators on small things in really turbid waters , they employ all 3 senses to locate prey, sight is for the close range acquisition ,lateral line is for a bit further out and the sense of smell is somewhere in the middle of it all best I can tell .
I tend to think scent seals the deal if they "hear" it and or see it as well , kinda like the smell of bacon cooking when you first wake up , hard to resist that dont ya know ....:highfive
Saturday my buddy had the same identical set up that i have. !5 lb. braid to 10lb leader, same 1/16 ounce jig head & same hot pink/chartreuse tail bait out of the same shot of plastic that i made myself. The only difference was that i had a chartreuse crappie nibble & he didn't. I was catching fish & he wasn't. He said i can't get a bite & i told him it was the nibble & of course he didn't believe it. I told him aggravating him that i'd catch it for him lol Well i dropped down rught beside him & the crappie left his jig & came & bit mine & i put it in the boat. :Rofl He had a few choice words for me but i may have been agging it on just a little bit. :Rofl He then put one on & started catching a few. So far the nibbles seem to have been helping us get bit enough that i'm starting to get confidence in them. :dono