I don't mind the cost of those Zuri's until I hang one and break off or something with a mouth full of incisors causes a line separation. The finish on those pin minnows is dynamite and I think makes a huge difference on certain days. But basically everything in the box you see catches crappies.
I was on our local crappie lake of 660 acres a few days after a major league gully washing high water event hit it and things were a mess. No wake regs, the whole nine yards. And the crappies had serious lock jaw. Out in the middle of a large bay I saw a clump of cattails that had washed away from shore and were floating along over about 20 feet of water and a flat bottom. Asolutely no structure anywhere near this floatilla. The I saw a dimple near the edge of this mess. I thought it might be white bass so I tied one of the little countdown Raps on and made a few casts and then whack. Here it was a crappie. So I sat out there following this drifty mass of cattails catching fish after fish. I have no idea why they were there but those crappies certainly did like that floating rap. I guess the moral of the story is that when things are tough and the fish won't bite, try something entirely different and don't be surprised at the result.
As soon as we are beyond the crappie spawn the box shown here is a constant in the boat.
