I like using nibbles when the water is real cool,they tend to stay on and last longer.When vert. jigging in warm water I'll tip my jigs with a small piece of gulp or a minnow.I always take minnows fishing with me no mater what,even if I don't think I'll need them.I've seen them to many times on one bite and not the other.I got on the water this morning at 8:30 and caught 15 crappies in a row on the jigs I was casting and none on the minnows I was running on a crappie rig slow trolling.Then about an hour later I started to catch almost all fish on minnows rigs not jigs.I guess I feel it's best to have both.
:D Give a man a crappie you feed him for a day...teach a man to fish for crappie and get rid of him for the weekend!!!