Does size really matter? I have used the smallest lures and caught plenty of slabs. I am fishing from the shore, no boat. I also use Blakemore roadrunners with good success
Does size really matter? I have used the smallest lures and caught plenty of slabs. I am fishing from the shore, no boat. I also use Blakemore roadrunners with good success
I like to match the hatch so to speak. If what they are feeding on is small then the bait should be small. If they are feeding on large bait fish then I like a larger bait. On days when the fish are pressured or the barometric pressure is sky high then I tend to use smaller baits.
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That make sense. I am only a shore fishermen, so I am limited. Crappie is very very unpredictable, lol. I give myself 20 mins if nothing I using to switch lures. May be I need to cut that down to 10 mins.
IMO, depth and speed are much more important than the bait you're using. I would change depth until I found the fish. Also, slow down. It's easy to reel too fast, particularly if you're standing on the bank.
If you're constantly changing lures, you'll never master any of them. For the first 10-12 years I fished, I didn't use anything but a solid white or solid chartreuse marabou jig -- and I caught plenty of fish.
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There's no "best" bait or "best" size. Crappies will gladly try to eat a bait nearly as long as they are, or they will suck in the tiniest jigs that happen to swim by. There's no "best" way to fish for them either. Spend as much time as you can out there....when you do have success, try to understand what you may have been doing that caused that success. On the days you fail, ask the locals what they did to catch fish.