Crappie Lures

The best crappie lure is the one that catches the most fish! Many fishermen find a crappie lure that works for them in one area and then stick with that lure every time. But crappie move around because they like to vary their diets – so you will want to vary your crappie lures. If you want to see the best crappie lures then you can see crappie fishing videos on many popular sites such as Youtube.

Crappie prefer live food and have been known to bypass lures that resemble dead food, so make sure that the crappie lure you use looks as much like a live minnow as possible. You may also want to keep the lure active – again so that it looks like a live minnow. Although if you are fishing in a river with a good current you may be able to let the water do the work.

Using a bright coloured lure is also a good idea with crappie, as they have excellent colour vision a crappie lure that catches their eye may be just the thing to interest them and make them bite.

Crappy are also a smaller fish with a fragile mouth so you will want to use ¼ oz or smaller sizes of pan fishing lures. A popular lure especially for beginning anglers or children is the Fish N Spin. This lure is primarily a crappie lure and is also good for catching bluegill, but it has also caught a wide variety of fish. You do not need to use any special or fancy techniques with this lure, just throw it out there and reel it in nice and slow.

A couple of techniques you may want to use with your best crappie lure are:
1. Slow and Steady. Simply cast your crappie lure out, watch it sink to your wanted depth, then slowly reel it in, reel as slowly as you are able to. As you retrieve remember to keep the rod tip nice and high.
2. Popping. Similar to slow and steady with a small addition, every five to ten seconds quickly snatch or pop your wrist up to your stomach and then back to your original position. Watch this one carefully as the fish will often hit as the lure falls back down – and crappie hits can be difficult to detect, so you will also want to use smaller bobbers as you may not see the hit with larger ones.
Bear in mind that crappie are often known as papermouth as they have a very soft mouth. If you jerk your rod too hard when you are trying to set the hook then you can easily lose your crappie as the hook can be ripped right through its mouth.