I am sure they have better lures out now...but way back when I used to wear out the trout streams...I always used the smallest Rooster Tail or Panter Martin and clipped two of the treble hooks off.

Looks like I'm gonna have to take Chugbug back to the deep water & remind him what Crappie look like. He's trying to turn this site into trout.com !
I broke him from green carp & now he's strayed into minnow fishing !

thanks for the help chugbug---i just dont know what the hairycane is going to do. we will be tent camping and i hope we dont get drenched. i have some joes flies and i will take off the treble hook.

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Hey I just had an idea. Has anyone used one of the Joe's Flys when the crappie are up shallow in the spring? They might make a great springtime bait...? Good luck knappy if you go. And poppop I still like a Roostertail too. And Skeeterguy you started all this by breaking me from the green carp circuit....You know that I will be back on the "deep water" when those slabs come back up shallow for the fall bite. It's only a week or two away if we keep having these cooler nights. Oh yeah, I do take my crappie jigs with me to the trout streams, but I haven't gotten confident enough to try one yet.