What is your favorite 'search' lure for crappies?

[BLACKJACK]

What lure do you tie onto your rod when you're searching for crappies? Or do just stick with a jig, slip bobber, and a minnow? And how much do you rely on your depth finder to 'see' suspended fish?

[rattleL]

i rely on the depthfinder a bit out in the open water basins of smaller lakes, but at teh same time will pitch shallow weeds and docks or marinas hoping to find fish. Lure wise i like small 1/32 oz jigs in green or white paired with small twisters. the inch and a half variety. Smaller flu flu jigs have also worked and this spring id like to experiment with the small mimic minnow bodies for big crappies.

[Jim Uran]

1/16 oz Lindy Fuzz-E-Grub!!

[OnAFly]

Depends on the time of year. Early in the season it's a roadrunner jig with a curly tail, later it's a small Salmo Hornet or a small Rattlin' Rap. I'll start with the hornet and if I'm missing fish, I'll go to the rap since it has more hooks.

[Scott M]

Roadrunners or BeetleSpins for me.

[ozzie]

I go to either a 1/16th or 1/32 tube and work the weed lines or I will go to same size jigs and put on gulp alive minnows in either the 1" or 2.5".

[MidCoast]

This time of the year, I just search for crappies by seeing where everybody else is fishing at. I go where the crowds are. Works the best for early season crappies.

[Jim Uran]

LOL!!!!!!!!

Innovation at it's finest

[Shawn Kellett]

I've got a new secret weapon that may just do the trick as a searchbait: 1/16oz white/chart chatterbait. I'll let you know tomorrow if it's working.

[pushbutton]

early early spring.... shallow........one inch gulp alive with the head cut off and a slit cut in the tail on a non painted 1/32 under a small weighted float

early early spring.....first break.....1 1/2 inch grey/blue/white/speckled tail on a pink 1/16 with no float

in both circumstances after i locate, i move off the fish almost to the edge of casting distance

[tunrevir]

1/64th-1/16th oz flu-flu tipped with a waxie under a bobber on the lakes I fish and a 1/16th-1/8th oz flu-flu on the river tipped with a crappie minnow.

Tunrevir~

[Thunderman]

I use a 1/80 of an oz BR calftail under a float no bait .

[Kodiak]

i am loving the copper colored metal flake tube jigs this year...

[tgruenke]

I had good luck casting with a Strike King Bitsy Minnow. Landed a few nice slabs last season with it.