I once heard from a guy that dunked a single minnow in a cup of whiskey and used that single minnow all day long. At the end of the day he had a limit of 2 plus pound crappie. I asked how was that possible to do with a single drunk minnow. He told me after letting the minnow swim around the whiskey for a few minutes he took him out and lightly hooked him just behind the dorsal fin. He would then toss him overboard and hit free spool to let the little guy swim around all he wanted. When the line would stop he would real in a crappie every time and every time that minnow would have the crappie by the throat!