| Throw away the crappie minnow and put on a | | | | crappies. Yes I would miss a few but unlike |
| tube jig! Yes, that's right, the biggest | | | | the minnow would get stolen, the tube was |
| staple to spring Crappie fishing you need to | | | | still there and sure enough I would get |
| throw away. I have been fishing for years | | | | another bite that cast. I reel them in ever |
| with a tube jig and a bobber with about as | | | | so slow and I feel that you can cover more |
| much success as any lure imaginable for | | | | ground too. |
| spring crappies. | | | | |
| | | | I really have found over the years that it |
| Years back I was fishing a spring crappie | | | | isn't that the fish weren't biting, they |
| lake from shore with my good old jig and | | | | weren't there. So move to another location. |
| crappie minnow. Yes I was catching fish, but | | | | |
| there was a young kid catching crappies a | | | | Tube jigs are easy and inexpensive and really |
| pace of about 5 to1 to me. It got my | | | | all you need for a mess of spring crappies. |
| attention. After a while I stooped to the | | | | |
| level of asking him what he was using and he | | | | Who says that you can't learn from a young |
| told me. A tube jig with the bobber about a | | | | kid. Had he not been there that day I still |
| foot and a half up, and no minnow. | | | | might be chumming minnows for the crappies |
| | | | dinner, not mine. |
| I quickly adapted and just pounded the | | | | |