slooooooooowwww
Man,...are the crappie hitting slow now. I'm on the Winnebago system and with all the wacky weather they are finicky. In the backwaters and channels now. Haven't tried targeting the weed edges in the lakes yet.
Only way to get them to hit is to get small, light, live and slow. Managed to coax some to bite by tossing them a small minnow on a weighted thill steelhead pencil float. No other weight or anything. Had to be close to structure/brush. The float would slowly stand up and go under in slow motion. As soon as it was almost all the way down, I'd set the hook. Might pull a fish or two off a piece of structure. After that nothing. Had to move down to the next piece and maybe pull a couple more off and so forth.
pour'em-paint'em-tie'em-fish'em-stick'em-fry'em!