 
Crappie Jigging
Crappie Jigging Tactics
Crappie jigging has been proven to be the deadliest lure for crappie, the
versatility of a crappie jig is key to your success, being able to pick lead head jigs that are different weights for probing different depths along with all of the different color variations available. Using these crappie jigging techniques with the right colors will out fish a live minnow 3 to 1 over brush piles, roadbeds, bridge pillions and at the edges of creek drop-offs. Crappie fishing angle rs can use these crappie jigging techniques 12 months a year and still be able to boat your limit of crappie on every trip to the lake or pond. Also did you know that 10 months out of the year crappie will stay in 20 plus feet of water, the only reason that they are in the shallow waters for 2 months is for their annual spring crappie spawn when they are around shallow lay downs and over organic or natural green moss beds that emits a richer oxygen content.
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Now you are thinking, how many different types of crappie jigs are on the market today and where do you start and for what application, the factors you have to go with is wind speed, weight, colors, and line size you are using for crappie jigging. Most people think that live minnows have always been the proven method for crappie fishing, but with all of the baitfish that are around structure, you have to present the minnow differently so that it doesn’t look like the rest of the baitfish in order to get a bite. This is why crappie jigging is so fantastic, did you know that when you offer the right color of jig and presented the right way that you can literally turn on these normally non-aggressive fish by mixing and matching different colors of jigs. Sometimes the difference would be to change from a black jig head, pink collar with a white tail to chartreuse or chartreuse and white tail to trigger a crappie to bite. Crappie love structure and depending on what season we are in, crappie will be found in or around structure in a few feet to 40 foot of water.
One very important thing for you to know is when you are crappie jigging vertically whether you are anchored to one spot or slowly drifting your line must be straight down in the right depth, if you are sitting still and the wind is blowing, the wind is constantly
moving your line. Crappie can be intimidated by this and will not bite your offering, by adding a couple of small ball
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weights about 3 inches above your jig will keep the jig in front of the crappie, slight vertical movements will trigger crappie to bite, this goes for slow drifting too. Another crappie jigging tactic is to find your brush pile throw out a marker buoy and cast past the structure fishing it horizontally with a slider jig, slowly bringing it back across the brush pile, they could be on the sides, in the brush itself, when you feel a tap or thump set the hook. For suspended crappie, top of brush is in 18 feet, cast out your jig and count down 1 foot per second to 18 feet and slowly bring it over the top, when you get bit repeat the process.
Crappie jigging kits can be bought for around 15 to 25 dollars and some come with color matching charts and more than enough jig setups to catch crappie. Enjoy your next trip crappie jigging!
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