Bobby Garland Slab Slayer?

[clock152]

"We don't need no stinking minnows." lol I guess you could.

LOL... that is good!... love the action of the tail section.. couldnt think how one would look on a minnow... tail top or bottom....also how would these do on a road runner set up?

[Slabs Inc]

Good if you put them in fish and they want a moving bait. I fish the Baby Shad almost 100% of the time. Jig head and rr head.

[clock152]

now your talkin.. 50% of my box is babby shad. but I have a few collors in the Slay'r and have wondered about them...caught a few off of them but not many...I am sure it has to do with my like of the baby shad's more...LOL

[Yates]

open part down... it will hold a little air... some sound and bubbles... may help get one more bite...

[Locator79]

Why not hook em sideways? I think they will work either way, but I always hook mine down, I feel while jigging, the water flowing throught the opening gives it a little more action.

[CrappiePappy]

I'm confused I've always been told that crappie feed up. So wouldn't you want the sparkled or colored (colorful portion) side down so it would be more eye catching.

Crappie "mostly" do feed on what's above them. People put their plastics on with dark/up - light/down ... simply because it more naturally imitates a minnow/shad, whose top half is darker than the lower half. It appears more "natural".
Now ... that being said, how many times have you heard of someone catching'em on ONE single color :p .. soooo, with that in mind, it may not really make a difference to the fish whether the bait is dark on top or on the bottom.

Sometimes the fish want something that looks as close to their natural prey as you can show them .... while other times they'll turn their nose up at those baits & slam the one "odd looking" one ... and sometimes it don't matter, one way or the other, and they'll hit everything you put in their face.

... cp

[crappielimits]

I would worry more about the action, than the color from top to bottom. The fish probabley is not directly under the bait. They may chase it or hit it from the side. Crappie do not see well down and primarily do not feed downward because of this, but they are not feeding straight up or vertically. They are moving somewhat horizontally in the water column. Fine tuning colors such as dark up or down does not seem to be that big unless fish are really lethargic.

[pab1981]

Slab Slayers don't have a bright or dark side like Baby Shad, they are more tube like color schemes. I rig mine with open part up, tip with nibbles. They have caught a ton of Kentucky Lake crappie for me, but the Baby Shad are great too.

[bchappell]

Have u guys tried splitting the tails on a slab slayer? I like to take a blade and cut the tail from the body to the end of the tail. It gives the look of two tails.

[WhiteMeat]

The laminates I've seen in the Slab Slayer are front to back, not top to bottom, so it's not a bait that has a 'belly' like was suggested. I like to have the open side facing away from the hook (see pic) because sometimes the tail likes to stick to a jighook and this rigging eliminates most of that. Exception being when I tip the jig with a nibbler, then I'll rig it the other way so it can cup the nibbler and help hold it onto the hook.