Catching crappie

[perchpile2]

Last year, I decided to try marshmellow on crappie. I remembered how, when I was a kid, we use to sink a nightcrawler, tipped with a small marshmellow, from off shore at Fishlake. It worked great! (No moss line at the time). I thought that maybe crappie might have a sweet tooth of sorts. We put a small piece of marshmellow on a small jig, and we did catch some crappie on this. Last night I was eating some rice pudding, with raisins. and had another (brilliant?) idea. Would crappie bite on a little glow jig tipped with small piece of raisin? Hey don't laugh. Trout like corn! I think I will try it, just for fun. Anyone else occasionally try crazy things, in hopes of finding the next (top secret) crappie bite motivator?
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[akammerman]

Not sure about the crappies, but I'd take some of that rice pudding! []
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[pookiebar]

I once tipped a jig with strawberry bubble gum while I was deep see fishing and caught a halibut, the only one caught that day.

Not sure on the crappie. Try using crappie nuggets.
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[gmwahl]

Years ago , on a mission in Texas, I used to catch tons of crappies on bits of gummy worm at the city lake. I tried it just to be a smarty pants and it turned out to work really well. Never tried it anywhere else though or since then.
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[perchpile2]

Thanks! I'm on it. Any particular color or flavor, that worked better?
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[hogstalker]

Caught a rainbow one time that was spitting up sweedish fish.
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[FishMcFisherson]

I've used bread a lot at community ponds. I figured it was mostly the color that attracted the fish, so one time I tore a piece of white styrofoam off of a worm container and tossed that out there on a treble hook. Caught a few. Not quite as good as the bread, but made me laugh.

Another time down at Fish Lake, I had been fishing for hours with nothing to show. After lunch my mom threw some leftover macaroni salad into the lake and the trout came swarming. I threw on a piece and what do you know? Caught the only 2 fish of the trip on a piece of rotini.
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[Springbuck]

Wait, what? You caught a halibut in Strawberry?[:p] JK, of course. []
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[kj]

We used the marshmallow to float the worm up off the bottom for a better presentation. Never considered it for anything else, although I suppose it helped... maybe. At fish lake a couple of years ago, the hot bait for perch was hot Cheetos. One of the guys with us tried them for kicks and giggles and darned if they didn't work well.
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[perchpile2]

Well, I tried the gummy worm thing for a few minutes this morning. No bites, but I didn't give it much time. Perch skin was working too good to play around much. How did you keep the cheatoes on the hook?
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[gmwahl]

If I recall (25 years ago) they were rainbow colored, but I don't think it mattered because we were fishing with 1/4-1/2" bits that we pinched off of the worm. Best eating bait I've ever had![laugh]
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