my crappie report

[sandbc]

Ok I cheated.  havent made it to the lake for a couple of weeks but did manage a good trip the other day.  my 96 year old mother (and no that does not make me old. Im the baby) is in a rest home about  100 miles north of here.  my sisters home is built at a strip pit near there so I kill 2 birds with one stone.  full of crappie bass and catfish.  some days they bite some days they dont.  this day they did!  I took a few minnows with me and they loved them but they were hitting jigs too as long as they werent chatruse which was odd because that it usually the color of chose.  I only fished 2.5 hours and caught a lot of small fish but then it seemed like the big ones started coming in.  ended up with a very nice mess of keepers up to 14 inches. fished directly under a dock and zeroed in on them at 10 foot deep.   I bought a jigging rap at bps like they use ice fishing .  thought that would work good under the dock and it did till I got hung up in the brush and lost it.  good thing they were hitting other jigs.  had to quit so i could clean fish before it got dark.

[dan hufferd]

Great lure but they are a hang up waiting to happen

[powerdive]

I've caught thousands of Stockton crappies and walleyes on Jigging Raps. My experience has been that 95% or more of the winter fish are hooked on the belly treble. So I always cut the end hooks off. Don't lose so many that way--just a fraction, anymore. Also, fish above the brush if you can. They'll come up and nail it, and it's a blast to watch on sonar.