Thread: Want to focus on pan fishing this year

Hello everyone,

I just joined crappie.com after google searches always seem to direct me here for answers to my pan fishing questions. I also recently moved to Maryland area, Montgomery county, so new to learning where to find ponds, lakes, and creeks to fish and may even try fishing the Potomac River.

I am a bank fisherman. I just bought a set of panfish magnets from BPS so I want to give those try. Perhaps under a bobber and casting, although I suspect I wont be casting those 1/64 oz jig heads very far.

I've also bought some road runners to try.

I'm not sure about beetle spins as I have my own spinner arms to attach to jig heads and I use curly tail grubs. In your opinion, how effective is the split-tail beetle? I found a vendor who sells the bodies. Just wondering if anyone has tried used the beetle bodies by themselves? For example just trying them under a bobber or trying to cast/retrieve?

Never really understood how to use those micro tubes with insert jig heads. Do you cast them? Bobber fish them? As a bank fisherman, I want to keep my fishing gear rather mobile. I don't have room for all the various colors crappie fisherman seem to carry nor do I want to.

I would really appreciate the experience crappie/pan fishing to help me with a dedicated set up with the limitations of space and mobility of being a bank fisherman in mind. Thank you for all your help!


Regards,

Leo