Hang around this country’s top crappie anglers and you’ll learn something that may surprise you. During summer, when crappie move to deeper haunts, many of these anglers don’t fish with jigs, minnows, spinners or other baits you might expect. Instead, they use crankbaits to entice hot-weather slabs.
Most of them aren’t just chunking and winding one crankbait either. These expert fishermen troll with multi-pole setups, using as many as 16 crankbaits simultaneously.