Originally Posted by
Gansett
For years I fished for crappie exclusively by vertical jigging in brush piles with long rod and minnows. At times I would spider rig with bugs and minnows. I finally tried casting various jigs to brush piles and other likely spots (docks as one example). Well, I'm a convert. While there are times vertical jigging will work, I was severely limiting myself by using that method exclusively. I'm posting this in case there are one or two others who are restricting themselves as I have done.