re: UPDATE: What Crappie Lures/Jigs do you purchase and use the most?

Usually white and blue or black and blue tube.

Or

1.5 bass pro cheap curly tails white or watermelon on homemade hooks/weight.

Or
-Take hook you are tieing for scaliat.
Bend near eye in an angled direction downward.
-Put small bead weight on head.
Now hook floats down head first or straight angle if it is a light bead.
-tie rear with feather color of choice
- tie body chart, white, pink, salt & pepper, etc with cheneal, colored pipe thread, or any fly tieing material for bodies. One time I used clearance black and white thread from a fabric store. The bream, bass, and scaliat loved that came out Salt and pepper look in the water or shad look.

My secret bait which is secret don’t tell anyone. Seriously it works well and at times out fished the harder plastics.

I make my own hooks with weights.

3 Old school M-F 1.5 shad mold - pour 3 shads each mold. Total 9 shad per pour. When I do these I do around 100 to 200 shad.
- M-F or equivalent soft plastic
Start
- anise worm oil in mold hole to help lube shad to get out of hole when done.
- heat up plastic
Cut coke can make funnel on it
Use wood dowel as handle
Heat with Coleman stove outside
After done chunk in garbage
- bottom clear red glitter
- green / red glitter top

They float don’t add salt to make it sink the hooks will do that.

Now they are soft so fish tear them up which is negative. Positive the fish like the softer tail. I tried soft, medium, and hard plastic. Soft tails wiggle more when falling or used as a swim jig.

The scaliat love it.
Old river I get next to the brush and let it fall. They love it watched them come up for the shad.

Sometimes they look down right clearance been items. The scaliat and bass love it.

Now I have an M-F mold of a straight tail lizard, crawfish, and worm profile I like in those I add salt also use medium plastic.