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