Crappie Suggestions!!

[Auesreef]

My brother ad I went out fishing yesterday in the twin lake area. We caught 9 keeper gills, 13inch crappie and a 12 inch bass on a glow tear drop and wax worms/spikes. We had two other rods out with a size 8 abredeen hook with a minnow hooked behind the head, but nothing hit them all day. I know there is alot of crappie out there because i smoke them during the summer.

What should we use or do to get them to bite during the day, but mostly at night. What are the best jigs to use and do you use. Do you jig the jig with the minnow on it or just let it sit. Need some suggestions to catching these guys because they are there. We are fishing 15 feet of water and have are bait at about 8-10 foot. Need some suggestion:SHOCKED:

[browning13]

I do really well using a small swedish pimple and fatheads. You can jig or dead stick with them, they work really well at night and they make them in glow. If you do fish at night a lantern/light shining down your hole will really help bring in the fish.

[lookin for the gills]

Red colored glow jigs are killer after dark for crappies. Hook the minnow through the back and dead stick.

[sticknstring]

electronics also help at night because crappies tend to suspend

[dobes]

If you want crappies in the winter than go at night . Start fishin at dusk and just at dark the craps will hit . Start with your jig just inches under the ice and move it down slowly till you find them . I find the bite instantly turns off an hour or so after dark . You should be able to get some nice slabs in that time frame . Go with anything glow tipped with a wiggler or minnow. Good luck and happy fishin.

[michigan head hunter]

we use slip bobbers with one jig about foot apart the one on top we use waxes and the bottom use a lite hook trible with a minnow keep the rig about a foot our to off the bottom and work up from there good luck :fish:

[FishDaddy09]

I catch most of my crappie in the day time on ice flys #12 or #14 Plastic tails on a horizontal jig also work well. Leave the minnows at the bait shop.

[Radar420]

Start with your jig just inches under the ice and move it down slowly till you find them .

:yeahthat: I find that crappie are much more apt to swim up for a bait then they are to swim down to one so I always start fishing 1 or 2 ft under the ice (depending on the depth I'm fishing)

[Jigawhat]

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215804

[kcud rellik]

The problem with crappie is they can be anywhere in the water column. I usually use one rod with a horizontol jig on bottom and a tear drop above it as a dead stick and keep that up high. My other rod I have a hali jig with an ice ant (from jammin jigs) above it that I jig low to middle of the column. I also use electronics to spot em but have 2 poles cause i don't wanna reel up or drop down to them and end up scarein em away. Every jig I use glows by the way.