I use mostly #6,8 or 12 size hooks. My most productive crappie is a all-white bugger tied on a 1/64 oz. jig head or a white rabbit fur strip with some pearl wrap tied to the same size jig head.
I use mostly #6,8 or 12 size hooks. My most productive crappie is a all-white bugger tied on a 1/64 oz. jig head or a white rabbit fur strip with some pearl wrap tied to the same size jig head.
I'll be a little different. Get tons of them on #4 clousers, chart over white, with bead-chain eyes. I tied 1000's of jigs on #4 because I felt I stuck them better than the 8-10 I used. Went over to the fly rod, so I just kept the size going. Ran out of 4's one day, and went to a 2. Got a lot less, but those I got were on the larger size, 12-13" mostly. The places I fish are pretty brushy, so I throw them with a 7 or 8 wt, 10-12# tippet. Got several bass this year over 3, one about 5. A few good cats, and some saugeye. Like it was said earlier, crappie have big mouths and will hit a decent size streamer.
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