A lot of us in MS use them spider rigging, cats meow!!!
Last night I watched a YouTube guy from Texas explaining how a bait casting reel is much better for deep crappie jigging!
I grabbed my bait casting reel (with 10/2 PowerPro) and put it on my 7' ML spin rod. I also put some fluorescent bobber stops at 20' above my jig.
I tore up the crappie today with this rig! It's a lot easier to put the jig in 22' of water with a bait cast reel. No bails to flip, just a click and a thumb to control depth.
Anybody else use a bait cast rig for Crappie?
A lot of us in MS use them spider rigging, cats meow!!!
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If you want precise depth control, bait caster is the ticket!
Never thought to use a baitcast for light jigs, but then again I never fish for crappy in water deeper than 10'. I presume you're fishing in Penn. - I'm next store in NY. Do you catch many fish over 13"? The crappies in my local, lower Hudson Valley lakes average around 10-12", with 13 or better unusual. The largest I've caught in a night bass tournament was in Greenwood L., weighed in at almost 2 lbs. I'd rather catch huge crappie than 5lb bass any day.
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For 'cast and drag' and 'longlining' I still use spinning reels but for pitching and dipping jigs in water up to 15' deep there is nothing better than a baitcast reel. Go one step better and use one with a flipping switch. I have them on a 8', 9', some 10's and a 10.5' (not to mention my spider rig rods.) Look at some Todd Huckabee videos for info on this technique.
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I've had bait casters on my spider rig rods for several years, they work great.