Small swim baits for crappie....

[DitchPanda]

So I have the typical plastics for crappies...tubes,grubs, straight tail shad baits...but I'm looking for some options on small paddle tail swim baits. Any favorites?

[bulldog1935]

Storm Wild Eye  2"

Though when Tsunami was closing out SS2 size, snagged quite a few glows. 

[casts_by_fly]

bobby Garland baby shad swimmerz.  2.25"  Its a small paddle on the tail, but it puts a little big of wiggle into them.  I use these and little mini flukes of about 2" in the spring on a 1/16 or 1/32 jig head when the crappie come up in one of the canals nearby.  

 

 

[Jig Man]

Just now, casts_by_fly said:

bobby Garland baby shad swimmerz.  2.25"  Its a small paddle on the tail, but it puts a little big of wiggle into them.  I use these and little mini flukes of about 2" in the spring on a 1/16 or 1/32 jig head when the crappie come up in one of the canals nearby.  

 

 

They are also good white bass baits.

[Team9nine]

Charlie Brewer Crappie Slider is a popular one around here

 

[Dreveal]

The Mule fishing Donkey Tail has been a great little bait for me in the last year or so. Really durable.

[casts_by_fly]

52 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

They are also good white bass baits.

 

They are also good largemouth baits in early spring when they first come up to the shallows and then again after the fry have hatched.  I don't know that I've ever sight fished a largemouth in a pond that wouldn't eat one of these that was slowly falling past its nose.

[Eric 26]

4 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

Storm Wild Eye  2"

Though when Tsunami was closing out SS2 size, snagged quite a few glows. 

These are great, cheaper price and ready to go right out of the package.

 

2 hours ago, Dreveal said:

The Mule fishing Donkey Tail has been a great little bait for me in the last year or so. Really durable.

I’ve got get ahold of some of these.

[redmexican5081]

I've had great luck with the Berkley Powerbait pogy swim shad 2" in basically all the colors.

 

[DitchPanda]

Thank you for all the suggestions... I will definitely be adding some of these for spring.

[JustJames]

11 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Charlie Brewer Crappie Slider is a popular one around here

 

This ^^^ is my go to, cheap and very effective, caught a bunch of “slab” with this slider pair with pain 1/16, 1/24 head. If I wanna get a little more fancy, keitech 2” easy shiner or 2.4” megabass dark sleeper.

 

[DanielG]

When I take off here at the lake I'm on, there's a particular length of water that's just crappie. I put on some of those Berkley swim shad paddle baits. The $5 a bag at Walmart. White or dark depending on cloud cover. Get's 'em every time.

 

[Bluebasser86]

Zman Slim SwimZ, either the 2.5" or 3". Rig one bait and never have to rig another unless you lose it. 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Z-Man_Slim_Swimz_Swimbait_/descpage-ZMANSLM.html

[mching]

I like 2" keitech easy shiners

[Buzzbaiter]

Late reply, but I just bought a couple packs of Keitech easy shiner in the 2in version. Haven’t tried them yet, but they look soooo good. Smallmouth magic looks just like an emerald shiner. I’m confident they’ll smash crappie and perch

[Bigassbass]

Curly tail jigs, Gulp minnows, live bait, worms, minnows.

 

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40 minutes ago, Bigassbass said:

Curly tail jigs, Gulp minnows, live bait, worms, minnows.

 

And anything else that's 1 1/2"- 2 1/2", catching crappie is about finding crappie (imagine that). Pick out any 3 or so, find the fish, and rotate them out when they start slowing down on any particular one.