Anyone use jerk baits for crappie?

[hdhntr]

saw this while reading a magazine that while using them they catch quite a few good sized crappie. nothing I have tried and if there has been a discussion already it didn't come up on my search. thanks.

[poorboy]

you mean like this? This was out of a farm pond


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[Crestliner08]

Each fall, just before ice up, we troll the small size Rapala Husky Jerks. Great for big yellow perch, crappie and even a gill or two will take a crack a them. Many years ago, I caught one of my biggest crappie on a bass sized Rattle Trap. Not sure either approach is targeting numbers of fish, but certainly quality. This season I want to try blade baits.

[CrappiePappy]

I don't know as I would consider using them for a cast/retrieve bait, but I do have several that are included in my crankbait box and they may see action in my "pushing" technique.

Wouldn't surprise me that a Crappie would hit one, if presented to them in the way they wanted it. I'd just be concerned that I'd be presenting them to more Bass than Crappie, unless I was able to find a concentration of Crappie in a localized area ... which if I did, a jig or Roadrunner would likely elicit as many or more strikes. I already catch enough Bass & other species of fish, when casting or pushing my baits (esp. marabou Roadrunners).

So, IMHO ... yeah, they'd work. But, I've seen a fishing partner catch one on a 1/2oz spinnerbait, and I caught one on a 4" plastic craw. But, both were unintended catches, as both were caught when we were Bass fishing. So, I don't use either of these as a routine choice for Crappie.

[skeetbum]

I threw a 4" husky jerk on the rip rap at Normandy Dam years ago, near spawn time. Was looking for Smallmouth but caught 5 slab crappie near a bush at water level. Put it in the right place and they will hit. I would carry a second rod with the jerk attached and throw it at anything near the bank. This time of year it will probably be a one here and one there kind of bite. It's fun regardless.

[silverside]

I catch crappie on a Zoom Fluke soft jerkbait. I use 4" on a 3 ft leader with sinker 3 ft from bait. Some days the "injured bait fish" action drives them into hard strikes.

[wolfhnd]

Just ordered some Zoom Flukes will try them this summer.

[BigRiverMarine]

They work great with an Offshore Tadpole pulling them. You can run em as deep as you want with the Tadpole.


BRM

[jackie53]

My Father is a jerkbait specialist he fish's the Bomber Long A "gold/Orange belly suspending,The rapala count down,Huskey Jerk gold/orange suspending and catches some big crappie out of a hard to crappie fish lake that only has little ones's "so says the local's "LOL.We caught a limit yesterday"Arkansas" this time of year with the shad being stunted from cold water.Can catch your biggest crappie of the year.

[fiveeyes]

SSHHHH..kidding aside..yes been doing it for several years now. I was targeting walleye, when I 'discovered' how well it worked. Work's very well over the tops of heavy weeds. 5