12-05-2007, 09:20 PM
that is how they act here in the morthern midwest states as well, stacked up, 10-15 feet tippicaly but are often caught between 5 and 25 feet...
we catch them on tear drop jigs in the winter with wax worms or set lines with live minnow...
it is always a thrill to set the hook on crappie, I have a special rod just for crappie on the ice.. When jigging we never know if we have a big gill or a crappie, unless it is a big crappie, and we have lots of trobles with bass latching on as well...[cool]
set lines you need a rod that will bend a good foot or two, if the crappie feal the hook they will let go, but if they move a foot or so then you can set the hook...
we avrage 10-11 inchers, but I hook in to the biguns up to 17 inches on ocation...
Jigs, crappie candy, wax worms, flies and minnows dead or alive work well.....
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we catch them on tear drop jigs in the winter with wax worms or set lines with live minnow...
it is always a thrill to set the hook on crappie, I have a special rod just for crappie on the ice.. When jigging we never know if we have a big gill or a crappie, unless it is a big crappie, and we have lots of trobles with bass latching on as well...[cool]
set lines you need a rod that will bend a good foot or two, if the crappie feal the hook they will let go, but if they move a foot or so then you can set the hook...
we avrage 10-11 inchers, but I hook in to the biguns up to 17 inches on ocation...
Jigs, crappie candy, wax worms, flies and minnows dead or alive work well.....
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