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I’d like to start catching crappie so any advice. I have an ugly Stik and am studying the book Crappie wisdom by in fishermen

What lures or baits should I use?

Any other tips.

What does crappie taste like?

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by KaioZuma

FS Digest

I’m no expert at fishing but I go with my dad sometimes. I personally use a small swim bait with a bobber. Maybe one that has sparkles on it and is pink. That’s my lucky one. Crappie isn’t bad but can taste good with the right herbs and salts. Also flaying a fish is really disgusting for your first time but you’ll get used to it if you want to catch and cook one.

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by EchoZK

FS Digest

First, gotta know where you're fishing. I'm in Wichita KS and water temp is sitting around 40 freedom units, that's 4.4 of the queens crumpets, so that's a big factor. Fishing for crappie in Louisiana right now is much more different than here, and even more drastic compared to Wisconsin, so where do call home?

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by tnge_punch_ur_fartbx

FS Digest

North East of you I guess but I get down to KS now and then- I’m on a contract gig near Saint Louis. Pond and small lake stuff. Virginia is home though - The James and tributaries. Lots of lakes in the counties. About the same temps.

The folks have a cabin in So.E. WV on the New and Greenbrier- I do mostly worm and Hellgrammite there. Bass fishing mostly. There’s a lagoon on the property that gets a lot of crappie after the high water now and then. My pa would take me out and show me his tricks of how he’d catch them. Been a while though and memory fades.

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by Judas_Steer

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

Mind telling me where you find Hellgrammites in today's world without getting more leaches on your legs then you feel comfortable with? Used to catch Big Perch in one of the 3 lakes that surround Madison, Wi. years ago with my Grandpa just by dropping hook, split shot, and an H.bug over the side of the boat on just our finger. Those days are long gone since the '60s up there tho'. My question about your source for Hellgrammites is a serious question tho'. Thanks, Jer

Rayz Loc: North West N.J. and South Hero Vt.

I have done well with small Malibu jigs with a piece of worm trailer. Yellow or white work well.

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

Hellgrammites = Beetle Larvae, and they measure about 1/1/2 X 2" I in the larvae stage and 2 1/2 to 3 NESW when their flyin.

DeeJay Loc: Southwest Virginia

Helgramites, aka grampus in Va, the larva of Dobsom fly. Catch them in stream shallows turning over rocks by hand, or a hoe with a seine set down stream, (2 people). Great bait for any stream.

Judge32 Loc: Vidalia, Ga. 30474

Jiffy Jigs are rated in the south as very good. They are made here where I live. You can tip them with a minnow when using a float.

Judge32 Loc: Vidalia, Ga. 30474

Jiffy Jigs are rated in the south as very good. They are made here where I live. You can tip them with a minnow when using a float.

Mattiba

I live in NE Ohio, I just got hooked on crappie fishing this year. I’ve learned a lot from Richard Gene The Fishing Machine on YouTube.
I’ve been using 2” swim baits with a straight tail and a 1/16 Oz. jig head, retrieve your bait really slow and when you feel a bite (it’ll be a slight thump) stop reeling for a second and give a little slack then take up the slack until you feel the fish, set the hook lightly. I think it takes patients to crappie fish.
I usually catch a few and sometimes I catch a bunch. I use minnows sometimes too but I catch way more crappies on plastic. I also like 10 pound braid because you can feel everything. I don’t use a leader but you may want to.
Again watch YouTube. I’ve been watch Richard Gene for over a year and I’m finally getting it.
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bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

I should have known better then to think there would be a commercial source for that bug but I had to ask 'n hope. Guess I'm just have to go wading again, RATS

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

BBC: Whereabouts are you
located ? Can't really give
accurate advice without at least
a general area to work with !
Other than artificials, have only found two
bait shops that carry them live; one in Delafield, Wi. and one in Buchanan, Va. ! If you live anywhere near either, you're in
luck ! If not, more information would be helpful !

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

At the present time Big A, My Bride and I call Wilmington, N. C. home. Born in Madison,Wi. raised in Mauston, Wi. the first 13 years and started fishing the lemonweir river out my back door and loved it. Second 10 years in SoCal, where I tried salt fishing, deep and surf, and just couldn't get into it? Most of the next 55 years after meeting and marrying my soul mate while we were both working on degrees in S.E. Michigan AND I was fishin' lakes 'n rivers there. We have one kid, she has one kid, (Daughter)and one husband and they have been calling Wilmington home sense 1990. After becoming permanently disabled in the fall of '13 my wife announced that she wanted to move close to family. If anybody on this site has been married as long as I have to the same woman, we all know that's ah fist fight I ain't gonna win even if I were stupid enough to try so here we are. I'll side bar here and say I have a 12 day fishing trip planed the last 12 days of June 2020. Flying into Madison and renting a car and driving up to Mauston, drowning worms and swattin' the lily pads with poppers for a few days there with a friend from Chicago. He Goes back to Chicago and I go a few miles north the Stevens point to fish the Wisconsin river for a couple more days and then buzz up to Shawano to do the same thing on Shawano Lake with another friend from Maryland that has family in Green Bay 'bout 35 miles east of Shawano. After saying that their will be ample shore time in Mauston and Stevens Point to peruse the real estate markets in those two communities I'll come Back on Track now. My Bride and I realize that our life is different then the lives our small family as much as we love them, we do not belong in North Carolina living 3 miles away from them and that's what they have airports for, sooo? New adventures coming next summer next year. NOW TO PIN POINT WHERE THE H*** DELAFIELD, WI. IS IN THE BADGER STATE? Thanks for the shout out and the knowledge Big A You da Man, Jer

bigbarneycars Loc: Wilmington,NC

At the present time Big A, My Bride and I call Wilmington, N. C. home. Born in Madison,Wi. raised in Mauston, Wi. the first 13 years and started fishing the lemonweir river out my back door and loved it. Second 10 years in SoCal, where I tried salt fishing, deep and surf, and just couldn't get into it? Most of the next 55 years after meeting and marrying my soul mate while wew were bouth working on degrees in S.E. Michigan AND fishin' lakes 'n rivers there. We have one kid, she has one kid, (Daughter)and one husband and they have been calling Wilmington home sense 1990. After becoming permanently disabled in the fall of '13 my wife announced that she wanted to move close to family. If anybody on this site has been married as long as I have to the same woman, we all know that's ah fist fight I ain't gonna win even if I were stupid enough to try so here we are. I'll side bar here and say I have a 12 day fishing trip planed the last 12 days of June 2020. Flying into Madison and renting a car and driving up to Mauston, drowning worms and swattin' the lily pads with poppers for a few days there with a friend from Chicago. He Goes back to Chicago and I go a few miles north the Stevens point to fish the Wisconsin river for a couple more days and then buzz up to Shawano to do the same thing on Shawano Lake with another friend from Maryland that has family in Green Bay 'bout 35 miles east of Shawano. After saying that their will be ample shore time in Mauston and Stevens Point to peruse the real estate markets in those two communities I'll come Back on Track now. My Bride and I realize that our life is different then the lives our small family as much as we love them, we do not belong in North Carolina living 3 miles away from them and that's what they have airports for, sooo? New adventures coming next summer next year. NOW TO PIN POINT WHERE THE H*** DELAFIELD, WI. IS IN THE BADGER STATE? Thanks for the shout out and the knowledge Big A You da Man, Jer