Crappies were clicking this morning.

Mississippi backwaters near Wabasha. Nice fish too. Even the sunfish were nice with most in the 8″ to 9″ range.

What are you throwing this time of year, plastics or cranks ?

Plastics on jigs under small floats, for casting Ron. Vertical, I use those small lipless cranks that I’ve shown here. This morning early it was a plastics bite, around 8:30 we switched to the lipless and got both crappies and sunfish very steadily, as in a fish every drop of the lure. I kept 7 of the larger crappies and three 10″+ sunfish.

Here are the plastics we use. Both are fished on 1/16 heads with keeper wires. The worm is much like a Keitech Swim Impact,2” on the smaller #6 hook The Shad is 2-1/4” and is fished on the jig with the #4 hook.

I make the floats and they can be rigged as a slip or fixed float easily.

And here”s the lipless bait, about 1/16 ounce. I paint the bare blanks. This color has been murder on fall crappies this year already and last fall as well.

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