Thread: after you drop

I've never dropped any bait with mine.

Don't have to. Your 'structure' will be a magnet to the smaller, which will be a target for the crappie.

Once, many years ago, I found out three weeks in advance my mother-in-law was coming for a Sunday visit and she wanted to fish. So, I went to a comfortable place on the bank (she wouldn't get in a boat), launched my boat and went to a clump of visible brush within casting distance of the bank. There I took three mesh potato sacks full of left overs from the mess hall at my guard unit after drill. I weighted them down with rocks and tossed them down into the brush.

My father-in-law said, "I'll clean ever damn fish she catches." I'm tellin' you...the ole man cleaned fish for HOURS!! I just loved it. She slayed the bream and crappie.

aj

If you want to put bait on your attractors, try cotton seed meal in a burlap sack. Then get your knife really sharp because you will need it.

Use two onion (or orange) sacks, one stuffed inside the other. Fill them with alphalfa cubes and sink them in your brush. It takes quite a bit of weight because the alphalfa cubes are very bouyant. I have done this around my pvc trees and found that they attract lots and lots of bait fish, which in turn attract the crappie. Trust me, it works.

Originally Posted by slider1

If you want to put bait on your attractors, try cotton seed meal in a burlap sack. Then get your knife really sharp because you will need it.

cotton seed is this the same cotton seed you use to sweet your cows up

Originally Posted by pvcnut

Use two onion (or orange) sacks, one stuffed inside the other. Fill them with alphalfa cubes and sink them in your brush. It takes quite a bit of weight because the alphalfa cubes are very bouyant. I have done this around my pvc trees and found that they attract lots and lots of bait fish, which in turn attract the crappie. Trust me, it works.

are you talking about a whole square bale alphalfa this is hay we are talking about right

My parents neighbor was talking to me the other day about catching crappie off of a single bale of alfalfa. He said he would catch them really well until the sun got up and the fish went to cover.

I was skeptical, but if you guys are saying the alfalfa cubes work I will entertain that there is some truth to the story.

We used to sink bales of hay in Greers Ferry, and it worked well.