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i use jigs with curly and split tails i tie on two of them per pole and let them drift with the waves.
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I don't get to crappie fish that much anymore but when I do, it is a similar rig like you described. I also have used a single with a bobber on it. That tends to stir them up a bit with the bouncing waves.
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I use a double with a jig on bottom and a single hook and worm or grub on top. It works good for me. I have caught a few doubles like that.
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Although I haven't chased the crappie much in Colorado, I did fish extensively for them back in Texas, in the good-old days on a fishing barge at Lake Waco. Now that is what I call fun, and entertaining. I'd use a rig made of wire so the minnows were held away from the line at different depths. Just bait up and sit back. Along about midnight, the rod tips would start jumping up and down with a vengence and the bite was on.
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i use guitar strings that have been broken to make the lines stand out and is low cost and easy to work with,.
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use to buy my rigs the twin hook ones for crappie but more cost effecent to make them and work better as i use lighter line but the same pound test and fish dont spook as easy
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Hey there daymere,

A certain lure maker I happen to know, [size 1]heh heh heh[/size] makes both jigs and roadrunners that work just dandy for about anything that swims.

I have had a number of roadrunners that have literally had their spinners bitten off or the area where the spinner is mounted break off from being stressed or smacked the wrong way on a rock or rock wall.as well as from some hard hitting, oversized creatures.

These later work fine as crappie jigs. Now... just could could the grand old man of the roadrunner be... hummmmmm.

JapanRon
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Hey JR, I do believe that I know that dude as well. He makes some awesome jigs and road runners. He even makes pistol petes.
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I use a slip bobber with a chartruese genz worm as I do for all my panfish fishing. I tip it with a wax worm, night crawler, a twister tail and sometimes when available a minnow.

Last summer me and a buddy were at this lake that we had heard rumors that there were croppies in it, but have never caught any within the two years we've fished it. Man did that change! We got into a rare school of them and caught over 50! I had caught over 100 fish that day including croppie, blugills and perch. We had a white twister tail on the genz worm with some berkley scent on it. That will be my go to lure for croppie anytime!

Last week when I was fishing, the blugills were biting on wax worms, night crawlers, and minnows. I had got my free GULP! nightcrawlers in the mail awhile ago and thought I would test out there "Works better than live bait" claim. I cut a small enough piece so it would fit on the hook and put it on the genze worm and threw it out....I never got a bite. I switch back to my nightcrawlers and waxworms and started catching them again. So much for the "Works better than live bait" claim. In the end live bait will always catch more fish than artificials.
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