How To Catch Crappie with Minnows and Jig

what's up guys it is freezing cold i'm in south georgia it's like 30 degrees right now so i figured when i woke up this morning i felt how brisk and cold it was like specs are going to be biting so i went and bought me some minnows and i'm doing some spec fishing today let me show you guys my setup real quick though this here is the pc fun viper x reel it's a new reel they recently come out with it's a 1000 model it's really sweet for i use it for drop shotting i use it for brim fishing today i'm using it for spec fishing and i've got six pound monofilament on here i have a seven foot cherry wood rod medium action medium light and i've just got me a little cork with a small weight and a small hook and i'm just taking these minnows and putting the minnow on here hooking it through the nose let me show you guys how just taking the minnow here taking my little hook hook him through the nose just like so and i've been varying my depth until i found out what depth they were at so i started it out shallow i started out probably about two foot about right here and then um every time i cast if i don't get a bite i will move the cork up a little bit deeper so now you guys see i've got my cork up about three and a half foot and i'm just kind of throwing it out there let it sit waiting for a bite not a whole lot to it looks like one took my cork under guys now these specs they have got a very soft mouth that's why they call them paper mouth so whenever they take the cork under i don't really set the hook hard i just kind of reel in my slack he's fighting good this might be a bigger one here i just kind of roll my slack in and tighten it up on him because if you jerk that rod most of the time i'll pull the hook out of his mouth yeah he's a good one all right that's a little bigger one there guys that's a little bit better don't get the camera wet that's a little bit better we'll check him out now there's a ton in here that are this size the minnows that they just happen to have are really small minnows i like fishing bigger minnows if i can let's see how many we can catch today oh just take it out again all right guys we finally got a little speck there he's not that big but he would make some good dinner if we had a bunch of them we are not eating these though today we're throwing them back i'm not going to eat them by this pond until i know the population in here is strong enough to eat them because right now these past couple years there's so many that are pulled out of here they're they're kind of difficult to catch let's throw them back sometimes i've been biting as soon as it hits the water sometimes it takes them a little while to find it so what i've been doing i throw my cork out and let it sit and while it's sitting i'm doing some bass fishing or throwing some other baits trying to catch some spells got it out there i'm going to let it sit and we'll see if i can't catch me a bass or something oh there he is there he is there he is i got him i got him it's the bass it's best well i caught me a bass with the front side five i've been catching fish with this thing everywhere everywhere i go [Music] oh there he is there he is i got him what is this what is this it's a little brim oh he's got some light colors on him he's like an orange color i don't think i've ever caught one in here that color look at that tail he's got a pretty orange tail on him i tried a few different things couldn't get a bite so i downsized this tiny little jig head and a little bit bigger swimbait that way it's got a slower action i can reel it a little bit slower and it seems like that is what these fish are wanting something really slow right now got a real good feeling i'm going higher than i've ever known