I use every color in the book but my favorites are pink head/ pearl white body, Chartreuse head with blue/black/grape body, or all chartreuse. I use braid with a fluro-leader for deep water fishing and straight mono for shallow fishing. The braid makes a huge difference when your fishing deep water.

Reggie

Not sure yet...

I run a double jig, 1/8th oz. on top and 1/4 oz. jig on bottom. My go-to color jigs are Sour Grape and Texas Toast (by Crazy Angler), Red/Clear and Blue/Clear and Purple/Clear (by Mid South Tackle), and Electric Chicken and Monkey Milk and Cajun Cricket (by Bobby Garland). I use others but these are my favorites and the ones I catch the most with. I use pink, black, white, and chartreuse jig heads. The crappie really seem to like pink jig heads and some some shade of red or purple jigs.

These are our favorite jigs.
They are all 1/8 oz with #2 sickle hooks.
We use BoneHead braid tied directly to the jig without a leader.

Jigums Halo Magic, Bobby Garland Cajun cricket, CPO pink Frog/white frog, Waco kids Waco Special and Jigums grease bath oh and Thump-its purple and gold!

I live in Stephenville, so lake leon is my closest lake, is it a good crappie lake, also a little further is lake proctor.

The Waco Special

Here is a great rig for crappie, I tried it and it works fantastic, it also has the best advantage of not having to rig from scratch everytime you lose your rig do to snags. I normally catch very few crappie for the whole year. I use this a couple of weeks ago and I caught 6 nice ones. Which for me is awesome. Usually I might catch one a month. Hope this helps someone who likes to crappie fish without the hassle. I have made over 150 rigs so far as for me this is the way I am going to go for now. I am experimenting with different jigs on the bottom, like Slab Daddy's, they seem to like the pink/chartreuse/pink. I haven't tried it yet but I am going to try using the Thump Buddys (little frogs). They work pretty good by themselves. Here is the u tube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13056qp-e7Y
Enjoy

I guess this one is my pick. Day in and day out, any lake, it just keeps puttin fish in the Yeti!

I cannot find this one on ebay, where did you get it?

I like fishing at Leon but have not been there this year. Went several time last year, caught most of them at the $5 dock.
Took my boat a couple of times, but did not catch any crappie. Have not been back since I put my Humminbird 999 on my boat. Will have to consider a trip over there soon. Nice Area.

Well, I've never use a 16 oz jig but would probable be ok for a 30 lb crappie.


Seriously, I like 1/16 oz and 1/8 oz best but there are guys that are far more knowledgeable than me, here.

My two Favorites are

Black Emerald Shiner

Natural Shad

Both by Thermocline Lures

Papamark, I agree with you by about two thirds as I would add the pearl ice and it comes from the same place. But for tight lining it has been better for me.

I also use a unpainted head @ 1/8 oz, but a red hook!