TELL ME HOW

Who's Tom?

Not sure about Tom, but I'd love to know how Ernest baits the crappie holes.

OK DIDNT CHECK MY SPELLING

Lets hear it, How do you bait a crappie hole?

I use crappie call.

lmao

I think more people go for building structure to fish around instead of baiting a spot to catch crappie.

May have good luck cruising some big lakes and looking for docks that have fish feeders on them and throwing a minner or jig near em

I think the correct answer here is you don't.
You can put out a nice place for them to congregate but that's it. If you build it they will come.
If you put any kind of bait you will get catfish.

All you have to do to have a good place to catch crappie is to build a good brushpile in the right place. NEVER put any kind of 'bait' on it unless you want to attract catfish or carp. You do not have to put anything on a brushpile to attract crappie. It never ceases to amaze me that people go to all the trouble of building a brushpile, and then screw it up be putting dog food, alfalfa, range cubes, etc on it. And yes, all those things will attract bait fish, but I promise that they'll attract all the trash fish you can catch also.

With a minner on a hook (that is if you're into BAIT)

Here's how I bait my Crappie holes.

Place a nice Willow top in about 15'-20' deep water on a big flat near nothing, with wind protection.

Buy some Alfalfa hay and a bag of hog pellets. Feed the cow the hay, feed the hog food to the hogs and go fish the brush pile.

Like Guy, I'm amazed at how many people think that the Crappie come to the Brushpile to eat. Sure they will eat some when it swims buy but they come to the brushpile to hang out, rest, whatever. When it's feeding time they chase whatever schools of bait that swim by or they go looking for shad.

Cover that the fish can relate to is the answer to good fishing, not bait that will attract mainly trash fish.

Just my opinion for what it's worth.

PS: The hay and hog food wasn't wasted, eat the cow and the hog.

Dominant Crappie Urine during pre-spawn then Crappie Estrous during the spawn.

I couldn�t resist!

Seriously, what about the rice in a paper bag trick from the Field and Stream a few months back? Has anyone tried it? I would like to hear.

I agree with cottonseed cake, soured wheat/milo and cubes on drawing in the carp, buffalo and catfish.

Around these parts, I have seen some of the better crappie fishermen, toss out live or dead shad and minnows either dead or alive around brushpiles when the bite gets real slow in the summer time. Often enough, it gets the crappie to activate if they are not in a feeding mood. Best have a cast net to catch some shad and ghost minnows to try that however, as the minnows are way to high to be wasting. It does work perhaps 50 percent of the time.

Also if and when it rains we often get mayfly hatches in the summer and they stick to cement or the sides of docks, if you will brush them down into the water, many times the crappie start feeding when otherwise the bite is slow. Worst part on that may be the perch are mixed in with the crappie.

No way do I use grain products though, to many rough fish are attracted.

Ron, Mud-Dabber

I have tried it twice on an active crappie BP at DeVine.
Only thing I saw was more bass, sandies and cats came in.