I am a bassman myself, but decided to try for some crappies for the first time ever on a lake up north last weekend. I bought myself a couple ultralights, some crappie tubes and some crappie minnnows and I couldn’t keep them off hook. I fished a weedy area off a small drop off that went from like 5 feet to 10 ft. They were all about 2 feet off the bottom.
His boat, his lake and you are a muskie guy going for crappies? It sounds like he’s the one guiding