Pan fish

My favorite fish to catch on hard water is defiantly pan fish, whats the best baits for slab crappies? whats your favorite IDO pan fish show.

Depends on your lake..

One of our lakes last year was just red hook and crappie minnows and a foam bobber, but you had to cut the bobber almost down the water line.

I love the episode up in northern MN on the tiny tiny almost pond they were fishing on last year I think that it was last year.

Red or blue glow hexi-fly with a crappie minnow. Especially after dark they destroy em.

Crappies can be best caught with a Icenut Tip down with a #14 red treble hook and small shiner. You might also catch a pike, bass, or walleye on this rig. While you are watching two tip downs jig fish with a gil pil and a chunk of gulp or waxie. This is the ultimate pan fish rig(s)

Big tungsten jig and a big plastic.

FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:

Big tungsten jig and a big plastic.

Unless they’re suspended/shallow, say less than 15ft or so. Then it’s slender spoon or small hair jig(for more neutral fish). It’s nice to get down fast, but in my experience they often lose it when a slender spoon comes tumbling down towards them on a little slower fall. Watching the marks rocket up to meet it is a blast!

When fish are aggressive I will use a 1/32 oz VMC Flash Champ spoon in either red glow or UV green orange glow. Tip it with 3 or 4 euro larvae and its deadly. Otherwise I’ll use a tungsten jig like a JR’s Jalapeno or VMC Tungsten Tubby, again tipped with euros or plastics in some cases. If fish are negative or neutral, I may switch to a lead jig that’ll drop a bit slower than tungsten jigs.

Erock wrote:

Red or blue glow hexi-fly with a crappie minnow. Especially after dark they destroy em.

I didn’t think I’d see anyone else would say a Northland Hexi Fly because I never hear people talk about them, but Erick nailed my favorite!

My ‘secret’ go-to for both perch, bluegills, and crappie is the Hexi Fly. Erick mentioned minnows, I use plastics – Impulse waxi or blodwoorm mostly depending on what size they want that day.

white hair jig, hands down.