My current tackle box that goes in my pocket

Ah, now the truth comes out. All of those Crappie lately were given to you. Errbody knows you can't catch Crappie without at least $400. worth of terminal tackle. You gotta get some Cajun Cricket, Hologram Ghost, Salt n Pepper, Monkey Milk, Double Silver Rainbow, Blue Ice, and Glow Grubs to catch some Crappie. You gotta have at least 7 sizes of jigheads too. And you gotta make at least 2 trips back to the truck to get more stuff if you're bank fishing.

Cajun Cricket, looks like a jam up spring summer time color. Now that blue ice, might just make it in my back pocket before the week is out

Monkey milk!

Monkey milk is my favorite.

Monkey is hard to beat

What size Jig head? 1/16?
I need to learn to catch crappie.

Ive got a friend who swears by 1/32, he.sais the slower the better.... I cant get below a 1/16, thats as slow as I can go.... I saw a guy bankfishing the bottom under 69 causeway bridge using a 1/4 and wearing them out.... What I really like is two 1/16 about a foot and a half apart, especially when you get one on each jig.

I like the idea of two! Thanks!

When the water is fairly cold, like around 50 or below I tie two 1/32nd jigheads on. Depending on the depth and current I may have to use a little bigger head. Lots of times I wind up with a 1/16 on the bottom and a 1/32 on the top or another similar combo. Until I find the flavor of the day they will be 2 different colors also.

You're an ass. LOL

My two primary clear water colors are Blue Ice and Monkey Milk. Stained water is either Electric Chicken or Pink Phantom. Black with Chartreuse tail is hard to beat in muddy water. I had a decent amount of luck with BGBS Tadpole color last fall too.

I wouldn't have so dad gum much tackle if I only single pole fished for crappie. It takes a lot of tackle to rig 8 poles with 2 jigs per pole. I primarily use curly tails when pulling jigs, then straight tails when spider rigging or single poling.

I almost exclusively fish with 1/32 ounce jig heads.

The reason the guy under the bridge was wearing them out with a 1/4 ounce head is most likely because the crappie were underneath white and yellow bass. The 1/4 ounce would sink fast enough to get past the W/Y bass and get down to the crappie. At least I've seen that before.

Fur the water was 26ft deep where that fellow was catching those fish, he would cast and wait till it hit bottom to reel it. Could have been trying to get through some whites. I was in a boat trying to fish his spot just like him and I never got a bite. I was fishing the oposite direction as him. He filled a 5gal bucket up three times. Ive seen stuff like that happen several times. Watched a guy catch 90 under short creek bridge one morning, I was set up on the other side of the piling from him using the same bait. He was saying "theyre right there" the whole time. He caught 30, gave em away, caught 30, gave em away, caught 30 more, took out and went home. I caught 7.

Geeze, isnt the limit 30? I wouldnt know in bama. I rarely keep fish and if I do it's for friends or family.

Yes 30 is the limit.

JWalker, I have been whipped by people close by while fishing too. I don't understand it but there are people who have a sixth sense about a fish bite and I'm not one of those people.

FurFlyin I have a friend who is the same way. I can have the same rod,reel and lure fishing the same depth . He will catch fish I won't. Swap ends of the boat and he will catch them where I was were and I was he'll catch them.

He is using clear line I bet....Oh...Idot...I got a jig body they cant resist..... Pm me.... You prolly cant buy them no more but we figure it out....

A friend of mine from my school days could catch fish on the train trestles by the feed mills when black folks with 2 dozen fishing canes couldn't get a bite. He's still a fish catching machine but we don't associate any more.

As long as I’m asking for secrets, I just cast out, let it sink, slow reel it back?
If I’m under a bridge, do I want to toss near the pilings/walls?

Pretty much AC. You need to pick apart every inch of the area your fishing. Cast out, count down to a number and start retrieving REAL slow. The important thing, is to be consistent on your retrieves. Your trying to get that 1st bite or fish to tell you what depth they are at and how close to the bank they are. You'd be surprised, sometimes they'll hit a jig a foot off the bank in less than 2ft of water or they may be 20 ft off the bank just off the bottom. You just have to fish slow, methodical and remember what you were doing when you get that 1st fish or bite. The important thing, is to pick apart the area your fishing and move to different spots till you get bit.

If you really want to learn, look up Richard Gene The Fishing Machine on YouTube. He'll get you taught

AC, fishing is just like deer hunting. Cover, terrain and food. Look for all 3 and catch fish. Doesn't matter about which species.

Add bluegrass and mayfly and you're set. I fish 1/16 and 1/32 90% of the time. Current will tell you what to use.

I like to use the lightest line, lightest jig head i can get by with due to conditions. I think they only bite the bait on the fall. I picture a house cat tryin to jump on something. You gotta tease them. The thicker the cover the better. They will stay up against rocks, pilings and inside brush. Simetimes it has to be inches from them or they will not hit it. The longer you can keep that bait falling in the strike zone, the better. Everyone uses monkey milk. It works best but man its what everyone uses so i try not to use it but its hard not to.

Seen next week's forecast? I hate it that I can't take one day off during the week to crappie fish.

Tejas, unless the Good Lord takes me home between now and then, I’m darn sure gonna be on the water one day if the forecast holds up

Me too, next week is looking real good. Unfortunately, I have to actually work through Wednesday