Just Imagine .....

A lone stump , all covered on the top of it with a herd of crappie ! :ThumbsUp
Then imagine setting up about 10 foot or so away and pitching a jig into that herd.:HandsClapping
at that point the outcome seems reasonable to believe it would be a slam festival :highfive
BUT imagine them fisheez not cooperating in the slightest ....nonono
I mean right down to just a peck or 2 and not a single fish gets hooked ....:yikes
I am here to tell ya , it isnt just your imagination , it could easily happen ! :Rofl:banghead

Nuts, isn’t it? Tomorrow - different time of day might be on fire!
Bob

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Originally Posted by BobC

Nuts, isn’t it? Tomorrow - different time of day might be on fire!
Bob

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we left them and visited them 2 hours later and they were still in the NOT today mode ....
bet there was 3 or 4 limits in that bunch pretty easily .....:banghead

Makes one wonder what it would take to get them to bite :dono

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Makes one wonder what it would take to get them to bite :dono

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DYNAMITE probably! :Rofl

Cast net:Rofl

Obviously you weren’t using SlabSauce!

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Makes one wonder what it would take to get them to bite :dono

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Much as it pains me to say it … likely real live bait would have hammered ‘em ….:dono

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

Much as it pains me to say it … likely real live bait would have hammered ‘em ….:dono

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There are days

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

Much as it pains me to say it … likely real live bait would have hammered ‘em ….:dono

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I’d have to keep looking or be skunked then….lol. I never have any live bait.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

I’d have to keep looking or be skunked then….lol. I never have any live bait.

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if I was a serious person about it and it was for fame and fortune .....you can bet minnows would a been in the boat with us ....
its kinda like everything else , they take the guess work pretty much out of the "if" they will bite them ....:Rofl

Ketchn it happens to me almost every fish trip, then I wake up:Rofl just saying.

I seldom leave home without 2 dozen minnows in the boat. Sometimes that is all they want. Heck sometimes it has to be a extra small minnow before they will take it. They can be some picky critters.

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Originally Posted by Grainraiser

I seldom leave home without 2 dozen minnows in the boat. Sometimes that is all they want. Heck sometimes it has to be a extra small minnow before they will take it. They can be some picky critters.

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back when some of the local folks had the want to take me to ketch crappie , mostly because they wanted to be dialed in on the how to and not actually there where to .
my first request would be for them to stop and buy at least a dozen small minnows before we met up at whatever lake . my mentoring and or tutoring of the how to included tipping your jig with fresh cut minnows .
to this day some of them still employ this technique , it is flat out deadly business on crappie to tip your jig with a fresh cut pc. of minnow , rarely will they spit it out and the amount of extra time they hold onto the jig can make all the difference in the world to folks in the learning curve .
if it were extra important to me to ketch the fire out of them every time I hit the water , it would be something I would for sure be doing to this day . :highfive
AND you cannot imagine the amount of debates over which half of the minnow was better , the head or the tail .....
and I personally think the head half of the minnow oozing the entrails and blood with them there eyes gets the primary vote btw