Lotech Joe
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Someone told me the other day, that the best all around fly for Crappies is the Olive Wooly Bugger. I find that easy to believe. How do the rest of you feel? What's you favorite fly pattern for Crappies?
Olive Wooly Bugger
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Jig Man
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I've never used a true fly for crappie, but I'm not ruling out the possibility....
quivira kid
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#6 pink-over-white Clouser minnow and #8 crawdad orange Slumpbuster!
jjsjigs
Banned
LOL. Good one toadfrog.
Lost Pole
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Dunno nada bout flies but a black n chart jig is awfully hard to beat. For me.
Best all around? Maybe so - maybe not. Think it would depend on what is the main forage in an individual lake. W.Buggers can look like minnows while you are stripping line, but think they pull off a better bug impression IMO. That said, i fish a few smaller muddy bottom lakes where nymphs and buggers can't be beat for crappie but a larger hard bottom rip-rap reservoir 20 miles down the road i have better luck with craftfur clousers. Even those i sometimes run a short dropper behind the streamer that has a smaller nymph and catch crappie on either fly.
I sling more nymphs/bugs for crappie on the fly rod..... but the fact that the small muddy lake is less than a 2 mile round trip from home could influence me.
LedHed
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"Think it would depend on what is the main forage in an individual lake." X 2
StumpHunter
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May be good but olive is not my first pick for crappie, it would be chartreuse.
jjsjigs
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black. you never can go wrong with black.
Fatman
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With Attica and Led - depends on forage. I'd carry five colors black, brown, chartreuse, the olive and white although mine would be in jigs. Everywhere I fished for crappie there was no room for a flyrod.