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    I have caught 2 crappie on a worm in my entire life while bream fishing. They were both years apart.
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    I've caught crappie on a worm, but only by accident and because the worm was moving and they thought it was a minnow or crawdad. I've actually caught more crappie on a small strip of white cloth cut off the tail of a t-shirt, when I didn't have any crappie lures with me. It wouldn't be the nightcrawler that catches them, but the movement.

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    Gotcha all.I have like 1500 african nightcrawlers now,lol.I want some crappie with them,so,I can call them crappie worms,lol.
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    Like its been said in some of these posts, crappie can be caught on crawlers. The trick is to keep it moving. Gills/etc. will typically wait for the bait to stop moving then hit it, so if you keep it moving you will minimize the gill bites.

    The wife always drags crawlers when we are out fishing, and I am usually pushing poles off the front. She will pull in the odd crappie now and then as long as she is dragging the crawler not casting ahead of the boat and letting it sit.

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    AzSlabber, you have been given some good advice and I can't really add anything more. Yep, crappie will hit nightcrawlers if they are moving. A jighead is the best way to rig them. You can get at least 3 good crappie baits per worm (maybe more) according to the size of your 'crawlers. It's weird, my favorite crappie artificial is a 2" curly tail grub, and they resemble a worm more than a minnow. Movement is the key.

    I only remember once catching a crappie on worms. We were bank fishing, and it was at least 30 years ago. It was a slab, too. I was fishing for catfish on bottom and reeled in quickly for a bait check to avoid getting hung on rocks and had a crappie hit. We didn't have jig one in any of our tackle boxes, so 4 of us chipped in for some bait. A friend drove up the road about 2 miles and bought one card of nylon type jigs and another card of maribou jigs very cheap, along with a bucket full of minnows and some beer. We dropped catfishing and wore the crappie out.

    I've also caught crappie (and bass) using bluegill fillet strips while reeling in quickly for a bait check. Crappie were more abundant then in these parts back then. Then the crappie became scarce in the mid-1980's and TWRA put a size and creel limit on them. They're coming back. Some crappie fishermen thought the crappie were eaten by stripers, others blamed drought, others blamed lack of cover. It was probably a combination of all these factors, but I don't think the striped bass put a big dent in the crappie population.

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    I know this is an old post but wanted to add to it, buddy called me yeaterday said they just got home and ended up with 50 decent Crappies, spider rigging with night crawlers???
    Never tried it or heard of it, have you?

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    I caught a 16" slab on a half inch crawler, and 1 morning caught 10 crappie as fast as I could cast out again and was using a small worm with a bobber. Most fish love worms.

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    When I'm fishing for shell cracker and come across a deep drop off I always wacky rig one and let it follow the slope. Caught maybe 10 and they have been real good ones.

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    hammered them well with worms before on more than one occasion myself .
    blacks seem to eat them well at one spot and at another whites like them .
    most of the time its smaller water bodies though , not large lakes
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    Have caught a few "cat fishing " but would not hold my breath . To many others that will hit the worm first .

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