My favorite is feathers, but early spring or late winter it seems that the crappie do well on hair jigs like kip tails.
Spring I use marabou a lot and in summer I like hackle tails best I think. Fall is close to spring so I use both and sometime I do use hackle in spring, but since I use Roadrunners most of the time in spring, it's marabou.
One this for crappie, don't work the jig hardly at all and just jig it a very little most of the time.
I have a ton of soft plastics, but almost never use them and can't say why other than I just choose the feather tail jig. I know they work though and that should be said.
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