Spider rigging

[Football_Coach]

How do you guys rig your lines for crappie? 2 jigs? Any pictures?

[CrappiePappy]

How do you guys rig your lines for crappie? 2 jigs? Any pictures?

My buddy, Chucky, was a big time Spider Rigger .... 6 or 8 rods - 14 or 16ft - 3/4oz weights - 2ft leader with 1/8oz jighead & plastic body & tipped with a minnow (usually a large minnow). Single jig per line.

Had a guide member on here once say he used the same jig/plastic/minnow setup AND tipped the hook with a Crappie Nibble

Everybody has their own ideas as to how to Spider Rig & what to use ... so experiment with what you have, before getting too many "over the top" ideas on what you "have to have/use". It's not for everybody, and you don't need to start out with 8 long rods to see if it's right for you. I tried it and found it to be a bit too "slow" for my tastes, so I took the 3 long rods I had and use them to Push jigs/cranks, sometimes adding a shorter 4th rod when fishing an area I'm familiar with as far as the depth and bottom contour.

[drucker]

Spider rigging has become pretty easy for me. I don't use the longer rods. I use 8 - 12ft rods and about a month ago I added double bases on my front deck so I can fish with two people up front. I usually fish with my wife but our 15 month old don't last very long in the boat. It's not enough room for him to run, plus he loves the mark button on the depth finder. I have tried several different options for bait. The best so far has been a jig tipped with minnow or a jig tipped with minnow tipped with crappie nibble. I have tried just jig and just a gold hook and sometimes just the gold hook works as good as anything.