JUST CAUGHT: Crappie Machine - Tips & Tactics

Elite crappie guide Dan Langston explains how to catch giant white crappie in lakes with stained water with sixteen-foot jig poles and larger vibrating soft baits from G-Daddy baits in deeper timber with the aid of forward-facing sonar and his tungsten weight system to get the bait to giant crappie faster and provoke bites. kwfishing kwjust

I’m back with Florida crappie guide Jack Smith and his unique system of using submerged neon green lights to attract and inspire big black crappie to bite at night. This system is proven to catch more and bigger black specks when the sun goes down and the bite turns on.

Joshua Matthew describes the deadly presentation of using eye hole jigs and crappie magnet slab bites for crappie holding in deeper brush piles. How he inserts the scent into the jig head and how he fishes the jigs with the aid of his electronics.

Some great tips for being versatile and changing bait colours when the crappie bite slows down. Karl and buddy ‘seabass’ are fishing for black crappie on weed beds in front of spawning bays with slip floats and two-inch minnow-style plastic baits suspended just above the weeds and changing the baits from green to orange and pink tones turns on the crappie bite once again.

Louisiana crappie guide Haiden Richard describes his deadly technique for fishing for pressured crappie with tiny corks and one-inch neon green baits by dropping the corks along bridge pilings and tree stumps in off-coloured water and using the ‘twitching’ method to provoke crappie into biting.

Karl is back in Texas fishing with James Davis and they are fishing for roaming crappie that are suspended below the surface in off-coloured water conditions in a river system with ten-foot jig poles and soft plastic baits with vibrating tails to catch a bunch of chunky crappies on a flat calm sunny morning.