Thread: baiting

By baiting with sweetfeed you are starting a chain reaction with smaller micro organisms that eventually bring minnows that crappie feed on. With the cold water that would take longer to develop. Crappie are going to be near food all year. I don't know how deep you are baiting them, but water depth could be critical this time of year.

Originally Posted by whizkids

By baiting with sweetfeed you are starting a chain reaction with smaller micro organisms that eventually bring minnows that crappie feed on. With the cold water that would take longer to develop. Crappie are going to be near food all year. I don't know how deep you are baiting them, but water depth could be critical this time of year.

Ive never tried doing that. I can see how it would work for a nightstalker who anchors in one spot. Has anybody else ever tried doing that for crappie? occasionally well fish monticello for catfish and we will sour some cracked corn in a 5 gal bucket then broadcast it around us after we anchor and fish over the side like we do for crappie.with the baits on or next to the bottom and you can catch a lot of small catfish for the fish fry using small hooks and small baits.

could you please tell me what sweet feed is ?

thanks
chef

Originally Posted by chef

could you please tell me what sweet feed is ?

thanks
chef

thats a mix of different grains usually sweetened with molasses you buy at the feed store. a lot of folks feed it to their horses and cows. my neighbor had a couple calves that kept gettin out and they was sorta on the wild side not lettin anyone get near em. id call him and tell him they was iin my yard and hed send his two boys over with a bucket of sweet feed. all they had to do was get upwind so the calves could smell it and theyd lead em back to their pen keepin the bucket just of their reach. i guess its like candy to a kid.. they love it

Straw, cottonseed bales, barley, sweetfeed, we have used it all to bait spots.We did this a lot when I was younger, not specifically for crappie, but we caught a lot of crappie anyway. We usually anchor a bale on the end of a laydown or near a sunken tree. We periodically sweeten it with uncle ben's rice. Worked for us 40 years ago and will work today. It will also attract catfish, this is not a crappie specific tactic.