Dead stick or Bobber line

[WalleyeSlayer21]

When fishing Crappies your jigging with your main line, Whats better for the second line? Dead stick rig or Red hook, Minnow under bobber? What are some Pros and Cons of each.

[monstermoose78]

WalleyeSlayer it depends on what else you are looking to target. I notice you want to catch crappies and walleyes. When I am fishing for both I jig for crappies with a buckshot spoon, but have a glow fatboy jig with a wax worm ready if they don't want the buckshot with a minnow head. I then set my float to foot off the bottom if I am trying to target walleyes if I am only after crappies set it to where you are seeing the crappies showing up on the vex.

[1eyeReD]

One night I did what Moose said at a place where I caught a few crappies earlier in the season and ended up catching only one fish all night which was on the minnow under bobber. The one fish was a 25" walleye. I've been fishing like that since, but have yet to have it happen twice.

Sometimes I rig both rods with a tungsten jig tipped with a 1" gulp minnow. I keep one by my side and barely in the water of my 2nd hole so that as soon as I land a fish on one, and unhook it, I drop the other right away to take advantage of the small window of time that it takes for a small school to come through. Though it only gives me maybe a 10 to 15 second advantage after unhooking the crappie and dropping my jig down the hole, I feel it makes me faster especially in the event I have to put on a new gulp minnow. I've tried simultaneously jigging but I can't multitask so I don't do that anymore.