| If you want to get serious about crappie fishing and | | | | Think you will be pleasantly surprised with the results |
| you want to catch a lot of crappie on a consistent | | | | if you can design your crappie fishing rig to "match |
| basis then you need to have excellent crappie fishing | | | | the hatch" so to speak. |
| rigs. The most common crappie fishing rig you will | | | | Now to match the hatch takes some practice and |
| need to have and you will use it quite often are | | | | trial and error if your first try doesn't work try |
| fishing rigs set of to catch crappie with different | | | | something else until you find the right combination. |
| crappie jig presentations. You can use crappie jigs | | | | One very effective way to see if your crappie bait |
| with our without live bait but sooner or later there | | | | selection is going to be effective is keep trying |
| will be a need to use a combination of artificial crappie | | | | different presentations until you catch tow or three |
| baits combined with some type of live bait. The most | | | | crappies and then go ahead and clean them, but be |
| common of these combination's being a crappie jig | | | | careful to open up their gut to see what exactly |
| striped of any plastics combined with a live crappie | | | | they are eating. In my example above I did exactly |
| minnow. | | | | that. I got lucky and hit on the right combination right |
| Now you need to make a decision on what is the | | | | away and when I caught my first three crappie |
| best choice of a crappie jig. To choose the correct | | | | within minutes I checked to see what they were |
| crappie jig with depend on a some key factors that | | | | eating sure enough they were feeding heavy on the |
| pertain directly to the local waters you intend to fish | | | | small bluegill fry. This technique will work on any |
| in. Your crappie fishing rig will change depending on | | | | crappie waters you intend to fish. Don't make the |
| what the local food source is for the crappie | | | | mistake and not use this important tip because it can |
| population you are targeting and also the season you | | | | be very powerful information on you next crappie |
| are fishing in. To put it all together you need to do | | | | fishing trip to this area. |
| some research as to what exactly the crappies are | | | | One more important note when you are matching |
| eating on a regular basis, then you can make your | | | | the hatch. Size and color are very important. If you |
| crappie fishing rig selection based on this information. | | | | are going to say fish only artificial jigs you need to |
| For example I had of this great farm pond that not | | | | match the size and coloration of the hatch. In my |
| many people fish in and that there was talk that this | | | | example above I chose a jig head that had a color |
| pond was full of crappie. Well the first thing I would | | | | similar to the color of the bluegill fry and the size was |
| do when arriving at the pound Is look very close at | | | | a 1/ 32 ounce jig size because the bluegill fry were |
| the type of bait fish I see swimming the shallows. Ok | | | | very small. The safety pin spinner was used because |
| Its spring time and I notice there are just hundreds | | | | the pound was weedy and the water was a bit |
| of small bluegill fry swimming around, bingo! I am | | | | discolored so I wanted my crappie fishing rig to have |
| going to try to match my crappie baits to look like | | | | some flash so the crappie could see it, and hear the |
| the small bluegill fry. Actually if you had a minnow net | | | | vibrations. |
| with you The ideal bait would be to use a small | | | | Well folks this is the end of my article I hope you |
| crappie jig with a safety pin spinner tipped with small | | | | have enjoyed the information about crappie fishing |
| crappie fry. Well anyway the key here is you need | | | | rigs and I wish you the best of luck on your next |
| to as they say "match the hatch" to be successful. I | | | | fishing trip! |