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TroutFishingBear
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What do you use for big crappies?
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Nov 30, 2004, 05:45 PM »
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?
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Nov 30, 2004, 07:43 PM »
Big rolls of TP
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Nov 30, 2004, 10:09 PM »
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).
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 01, 2004, 01:33 PM »
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.
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 04, 2004, 07:32 PM »
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.
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 04, 2004, 09:19 PM »
plain hook and minnow and a little bobber with spit shot
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Polar
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 08, 2004, 11:39 AM »
A minnow and a splitshot about 6 inches up from the hook.
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 08, 2004, 11:48 AM »
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.
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 19, 2004, 01:38 PM »
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...
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 19, 2004, 10:38 PM »
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.
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iceman480
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Dec 29, 2004, 01:30 PM »
I've had lol with A glow or red glow gem n eye tipped with either a small minnow or waxies.
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fishslayer37
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Re: What do you use for big crappies?
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Dec 29, 2004, 09:53 PM »
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.
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