thats y youve never caught a small crappie, best way to catch them is on a bobber and minnow or bobber and wax worm. Its rare to catch a small one on a lure. Ive had 2 crappie but they seem to be fragile compared to other sunfish, they both died and i could never get them off live foods. I might try again this spring.cichlid fiend;2820217; said:
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i was able to trick my natives to taste dried shrimp from off the top of the water and once they taste the krill they liked it and i also had them on frozen unthawed shrimp from grocery store as well as gold fish and e.worms
cichlid fiend;2820217; said:
When I want to catch really small sunfish I break out my fly rod. The biggest impedemnet to catching the little guy's is normally hook size. Even a number 10 hook can be hard for small sunfish to get their mouth around. I'll tie some small nymph or sow bug type flies in size 16 or smaller barbless hooks. I fish the nymph suspended about 12 - 14 inches under a popping bug. If a fish even thinks about looking at that nymph he'll get hooked by that little 16-18 hook. The nymph doesn't have to look like much for sunfish, just a little dubbing, or yarn or peacock herl wrapped around the hook with a little bit of a tail sticking off will work.
