Crappie pissing me off

[Kc_Kracker]

i love crappie, seriously! well a small local lake near me has them, because i keep seeing huge heads at the bank. i know they are in there. i have never caught more then 1 on a worm, always on small white jigs under a bobber but its not working. i have tried 20 different jigs, around the entire lake 

any ideas? hey cohoho this lake is like 5 minutes from both of us  on the flip side we have been killing trout there and have smoked over 50 last week 

[xd2005]

I miss good fishing lakes.   

5 minutes from Vancouver Lake, but who wants glowing fish? 

[Kc_Kracker]

sneaky- yes tried bottom, etc, problem with worms is this lake has so many damn trout if you use a worm its nonstop trout 

[Huntbear]

I seriously want to find a good crappie lake here in this part of the state.  I got spoiled catching dinner plate sized ones in Georgia when I was there.

[Kc_Kracker]

no shizz i grew up down south, no comparison! i miss huge bluegill.  i heard the potholes and moses are great for crappie

[cohoho]

Go around the back of the lake - where it meets Palmer Cocking-  the Mexican dudes are cleaning up on them all the time, that and the perch... 

[Kc_Kracker]

wrong lake but you have a pm with info 

[PolarBear]

I have literally caught thousands of crappie on crickets!  Bobber, #8 baitholder hook, one small slitshot to get it down.  Hug it tight to trees and you will be golden!
As far as artificials, a Blakemore Roadrunner in chartruese shaken around structure, or very small floating Rapala in silver minnow.  Live minnows are the absolute best but illegal here. 

[Kola16]

Crappie do not bight worms well at all. Use the super small green jigs fished slow.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I have literally caught thousands of crappie on crickets!  Bobber, #8 baitholder hook, one small slitshot to get it down.  Hug it tight to trees and you will be golden!
As far as artificials, a Blakemore Roadrunner in chartruese shaken around structure, or very small floating Rapala in silver minnow.  Live minnows are the absolute best but illegal here. 

yeah ...if we could only use minnows here in Washington you would catch just about everything ....gold fish work well too !  When I used to fish crappies I usually used a white jig 1/4 once with the tail end piece of the nightcrawler ...just kill them ! They should me spawning well now ...once you find those beds then you should be able to load up ...

[Kc_Kracker]

ya white jigs aint cutting it, driving me nuts!

[Kola16]

Use a little fish for bait......"Hey look I caught a little fish, and I didn't realize it."

But green works the best. Washington crappie are different, and smaller so go small

[1bugman]

I've done well with Red and white jigs. No bobber. Some times tipped with worm.

[HornHoarder]

pm sent

[shoot-em-dead]

Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.

[shoot-em-dead]

Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.

 

It works though.

I never have tried, I guess i've never had dynamite either.

[hunt_fish]

I've done decent on the gulp minnows for crappie.  2" ones of those, I bought the 1" ones but didn't really get to try fishing with them this spring.  Try using those on a jighead and slowly jigging it back.

[Kc_Kracker]

Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.

[PolarBear]

I made one of these up for backup.

[CedarPants]

 

[Kc_Kracker]