Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

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I love catching crappies. Most of my crappie fishing comes in spring and summer. During spring, nothing beats watching a slip bobber slowly descend when a hungry shallow water slab inhales a small jig ...

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