Thanks: 
HaHa: 
Reply With QuoteThat rod had caught well of 1000 crappie, so I guess it was about time to retire it, just like me. :-)
Crappie.com Legend
There is a perfect one laying on the bottom of Big Allison near the nuclear plant.
If you don't believe it, ask Gerald Cromer, and they don't make it anymore.
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
Crappie.com 1K Star General
That rod had caught well of 1000 crappie, so I guess it was about time to retire it, just like me. :-)
Gerald K4NHN
Cayce, SC
Slabmaster
Yep cleaning fish, that is the problem when you keep a bunch of them. Delicious though, I like Bluegills scaled and fried with skin on. Yum!! Try marabou light jigs, 1/32 or lighter. For some reason the crappie on Murray like them and sometimes will not even touch a plastic. I rig up about a half dozen the evening before, by putting those little rubber bands used for braces on teeth through the hook eye with a sewing needle threader, then I slightly bend the hook point down just a tad, and hook the rubber band over the barb. This keeps me from getting hung up on all the ropes, wires, and those cross braces. Of course eventually it will get hung good and time for a new jig. But some days I fish the same jig all day. I tried plastics last Friday and no go, switched to a black/green marabou and had a fish the fourth or fifth flip . Something about marabou they seem to like.Originally Posted by SeaRay
Good luck, yes it is fun, and you will catch some decent bass also shooting those docks. Along with some huge bluegill. I am gone fishing again tomorrow, think I will go up to Billy Dreher the west side and give that a go. I like to go someplace different each trip just to explore. If I do not catch anything, I can assure you Friday I will return to Bear Creek. I kept two limits of big bluegill last week, so I also can stand no cleaning fish for a couple weeks. Cheers! Kit
Slabmaster
You really want me to get into trouble....Lol! The best is subjective to what suits a particular person.
Well in the beginning I used a short five foot ultra light, but did struggle to gain distance and accuracy with that rig. A few years ago during a Bass Tournament I started shooting a wacky worm under docks with a 7 foot rod. We won that tournament and the next 7 doing that. So the light bulb came on.
I prefer a longer rod, from 6 foot six to 7 feet. I want some backbone in it also so I like medium light with a very fast tip. With this rod sitting in the boat seat taking life easy, pulling the bend in the rod back and down beside my leg, I can shoot a jig easily 60 feet up under the docks. For those docks that have a two inch gap between the bottom board and under the dock, backing off a bit helps with accuracy to shoot it all the way up under there. You simply get more power with a longer rod with a fast tip, and this helps with accuracy greatly also as you have more of a power shoot than a slow arc such as you get with a light short rod. Learn to hold the jig by the hook also, as if not sooner or later you will have a brain fart and have to remove jig from finger. And that long rod will really stick it in there. Lol! I like a larger spool spinning reel also, not real large but above ultra light as that just also helps cut down on line twist and I never use the reel to flip the bail, always manually close the bail. In a few trips you will gain the trick to it, then you will begin to challenge yourself to hit the shady area between a dock and a pontoon boat while shooting the jig under ropes and wire to get it in there. Dock shooting is not just for crappie, it catches many species and those big bass will suck in that jig also. Good luck. Kit
Specklocker LIKED above post
