What do you use for big crappies?

[TroutFishingBear]

There is a lake in my area that has some huge crappies, and I will be hitting it a few times a week once the ice is safe because safe ice doesn't last long on this lake. I am wondering what do you guys use for big crappies?

[Chucker]

Big rolls of TP

* Chucker ducks and runs!

[Thriller]

This will be the first winter I go for crappies through the ice, but I have found on open water that the same lures have caught all sizes of crappies - it just depends on where you are relative to the big fish.  My most consistent lures have been micro tubes (1" or so).

[CrappieGuy]

TipDowns with 2" crappie minnows for bait (Emerald Shiners if you can get them are great) on a small glow treble hook #12 or smaller.  Best times are early morning before and during sunrise, and just before and after sunset.  A heavy overcast day can also be good all day long.

[Swift]

At one time I was a live minnow/bobber user. Now use silver jigging raps most of the time at night that I've added glow paint to the "V" tail and a minnow type attractant. Size #1 has become hard to find but #2s and #3s work. Can be strange at times, big bait little fish, small bait bigger fish. Raps and 1" tubes loaded with a fish attractant work well when running and gunning to find them during the day.

[fisher35]

plain hook and minnow and a little bobber with spit shot

[Polar]

A minnow and a splitshot about 6 inches up from the hook.

[walleyeslayer]

jigging rapalla with waxworms on the hook.  flashy spoons tipped with minnow head, or minnow.  if the rap doesnt work, i go to a hopkins shorty spoon, i prefer to tip the treble with minnow head, and work it agressively starting on the bottom, and work it up through the water column.

[Paradice]

a small plain hook and a minnow.  My brother would throw down glow in the dark this, rattle that, neon so and so, with a trailer hook and so on.  While he was tying and retying, i just pulled up one after another.   

just sayin...

[A-BOMB guy]

If they are on, about anything will work. Most of the time if you mark 'em and cant catch 'em try a small jig or smaller ice fly. Don't let the size of the fish and the tiny lure fool ya. I caught my 2 largest crappie last year about 1 pm on a # 18 ice fly.
Bright sunny day , too. I guess its kinda like after a big meal you can't eat another bite, but that little mint always gets stuffed in your mouth. 

[iceman480]

I've had lol with A glow or red glow gem n eye tipped with either a small minnow or waxies.

[fishslayer37]

Ill use 3 different baits on the line. I usually start out with a pole with 4 or 6 pound test.  Ill tie on 2 small jigs about 6 inches apart with a waxie and a minnow on them.  Then on the acxess line ill put on a sweetish pimple. I usually put either a minnow or a waxie on a hook.  Then if i find what they are biting on ill put that bait on a rod with 2 lb test on.