Quote Originally Posted by 91tiger View Post
I went to Murray yesterday jigging for stripers. I finally was able to see exactly what an open water school of crappie looks like on my live scope. Out in 45 feet of water I saw a tight school of smaller fish only 10 feet down about 50 feet out in front of me. I cast the jigging spoon, letting it sink 3 seconds before sweeping it back and am nailed by a really big crappie. About a half hour later about a mile away, I see the same thing again on live scope and fire the jigging spoon into them and catch an even bigger one. Even with my forward range set out at 70 feet, they were very distictively round. They also produced a very strong return. I keep my color pallet on the blue, which I like best for open water and they showed up very vividly red with yellow outlines. I was very surprised at how fast they were moving. The jigging spoon worked well because it would have taken a traditional 1/16oz crappie jig too long to sink into them before they would have been gone from the spot I cast. It makes me want to rig up a 3/16 oz jig head with a light wire hook with a curly tail crappie grub so I can bomb that into them when I see that again.
Funny you said about heavy jig. I saw video by 3Pound Crappie. He said the same thing. He liked to use a heavier jig casting in shallower water even with his fan casting into schooling in open water. He saw his livescope he could not get closer than 30 feet without spoiling them. The heavier jig would get to them quicker because of there movement.