wax worms

[mac]

Ever use them for crappie?
Mac from Missouri

[doggone]

I think I have used them once or twice in winter. Murder on some bluegill but don't remember catching a crappie on them. I am going to say depending on the forage base they would work. But I do not know of a Lake within a hundred miles of here anymore that's not chock full of shad of different sizes. They seem to have just adjusted to them as the main course. They do get in on the insect hatches at times though so I know they still eat a few bugs.

[deathb4disco]

The bluegill will get them before the crappie even know they're there.

[Potatoe]

We use them for Ice fishing, catch crappie with tungsten jig

[CrappiePappy]

I've actually caught Crappie on Meal Worms, but really only tried it a few times. Wax Worms I've tried a few times, but like's been said, the small Bluegill are all over them long before a Crappie even gets a smell. And it seems to me that even the Meal Worms were only good for some Black Crappie hanging out in a tree top pre-spawn.

Out of all the "bugs/grubs/worms" (live) that I've used over the years ... I can't really account for many Crappie caught with them.

[spoofhound]

have caught lots of crappie on them right after ice out. run them under a slip float and a small jig and body and watch out. i just use up what i have left over from ice fishing season. think of them as live crappie nibblets.

[wannabe fisherman]

The bluegill will get them before the crappie even know they're there.

yep you can't get them past the gills been there done that.

[shipahoy41]

yep you can't get them past the gills been there done that.

same here too.

[Nutbush]

I have never tried it, but Jackie Vancleave writes a fishing report for Reelfoot and he recommends tipping a jig with a wax worm.


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[deathb4disco]

I have never tried it, but Jackie Vancleave writes a fishing report for Reelfoot and he recommends tipping a jig with a wax worm.

I'm not familiar with that report but in the Grizzly Jig info I've seen, they use the jig/wax worm combo for bluegill.