Crappie!!!!!

[fishcrazy123]

what would you guys recomend for a kit or lures to pick up? im goin to prineville again this summer and just wanted to restock. i dont know a whole lot about crappie (mostly salmon) so what colrs work best over there and do you guys recomend any kits online?

[FelonFinder]

Have you considered Crappie Magnets?

[Dan360]

You might find my suggestions to be strange, but I have caught a lot of big crappie with these lures. I wouldn't go into buying a kit. I think its better to buy a stow-away type box and load it with lures that are proven crappie catchers. Then you'll have a better kit than anything else you can buy.

#7 Rapala Original Floating in Black/Silver, twitch it slowly near grass beds

2 1/2 inch Banjo Minnow in Black/Silver or Green/Silver, same as with the rapala

Size 8 or 10 Black w/red tinsel Wooley Bugger on a fly rod or casting bubble

Brown or Chartreuse Trout Killer jigs re-rigged with 1/16 gamakatsu jig head.

[ExBassGuide]

Crappie jigs, crappie nibbles, small Styrofoam bobbers and FISH SHADE, like log booms or shade on shore line. Colors of crappie jigs are yellow and white, black & yellow or just white.
Roger

[retaliate]

Yep! Tube Crappie jigs, or very small twister tails, with or without a bobber, of various colors as Crappie tend to change as light, & weather conditions change, red, & white, red & chartruse, with or without sparkles are a couple of my ole stand by's, but I've caught them on just about every color, slow trolling small rapala type lures can also be effective when fish are down deeper.

[luv_2_fish]

Tube jigs in various colors (a friend had a few very succesful trips at Prineville told me his go to color tube is pearl-white bottom/red top). You can also insert the crappie nibble inside the tube to entice the crappies to bite.

[Crappie Chaser]

what would you guys recomend for a kit or lures to pick up? im goin to prineville again this summer and just wanted to restock. i dont know a whole lot about crappie (mostly salmon) so what colrs work best over there and do you guys recomend any kits online?


Cabela's has kits of the 1 1/2" Southern Pro tubes in mixed colors. The Southern Pro Hot Spot 2" grubs work well also. When the fish are active any color works.

[Tar Heel]

As you no doubt know, it's the "finding" that counts, and once you do, lure selection doen'st seem to be as imnportant as figuring out there they are schooled up at. Man, i had some fun w/ crappie as a kid! We liked to use little grubs and spinners, but it seem like they would hit most anything if you were on top of them. Ask JAybee to show a pic of the slab he landed in Cally a few years back.

[fishcrazy123]

2 more questions
what size jighead is best fo average crappie? (im thinking 1/32 or 1/16)
and what are your 5 fav. colors?

[Dan360]

I think 1/32 and 1/16 cover it pretty good. My favorite colors usually avocado/motor oil, blue and white.

[romanfishing]

I like to fish them at night on black tubes but with powerbait

[Lurp]

I used to fish crappie alot
What worked best for me was when I caught a small one fillet one side and cut narrow strips about 1/4 inch long just hang it on a hook and they are all over it
As hard as they fight it's to bad they don't get up to about 20 lbs

[Crappie Hunter]

Dan360 is "right on" with the 1/16 and 1/32 jig heads. Crappie Chaser is also "right on" about the kits. If I had to pick five colors for "day in, day out" Crappie fishing they would probably be: Red/White, Black/Chartruese, Pearl White Sparkle, Chartruese Sparkle and Red/Chartruese Sparkle.

Good luck.......Stick some Slabs!!!!