So again the lesson sooo many folks continue to question is: DON'T PUT CRAPPIE INTO SMALL PONDS! Fortunately, I have "discovered" (though some of you may have also) a quick and easy way to catch sometimes a hundred per evening
. Almost any evening my son and I can catch at least 30 or more in half an hours time; but you must have an areation system! We jump in our boat right as the sun sets with ultralight rods spun with 4 lb. mono. and tipped with 1/32 oz jigheads. The color doesn't seem to matter. Pull the boat up to about 30 feet from the column of bubbles on one of your the deeper diffusers. Toss the jig either at, or to within 15 feet of either side of the diffuser, and with tiny rod-tip motion, dance the jig in the top 5 feet of water. We get a strike on nearly every cast. Pass the word! JB and Scott
p.s. You won't catch any crappie slabs this way, just the little guys (3 to about 9 inches) that you want to cull. 4 times this year though we have landed bass weighing over 3.5 lbs. fishing for crappie this way on 4 lb. mono. (you think that wasn't fun?) I also caught my 7 lb bass pulling a glass rapala deep at the edge of the difusser. The big bass love to feed on the abundance of crappie that gather at the difussers. HAVE FUN!
