Quote Originally Posted by mbk View Post
I love minnow fishing too but as you said, they are such a pain because you never know when you can get them. I recently started using Lake Fork Baby Shad and have been doing really well with them just vertical jigging. The Bobby Garland Baby Shad are almost the same bait but the Lake Fork have a Garlic scent added. Not sure if that makes a difference at all, but I seem to do really well with these. I think I have said goodbye to the hollow-body tubes for now. The other artificial I love to use, particularly in the spring and warmer months is the Charlie Brewer Slider. You can google that and buy from the site. You can fish these weedless and the crappie really seem to love the action and color Junebug Chartreuse.
Stopped in today at Cabelas and picked up a pack of Bobby Garland Baby Shad and Slab Slay'r. Also bought some chartreuse and pink jig heads. Rigged a few up when I got home and got me even more excited to hit the creeks once this ice melts! The Charlie Brewer Sliders that you were talking about were in stock and plan on getting a pack or two of those sometime. Thanks everyone for the replies and hopefully the advice will pay off this spring.