"f.blair" wrote in message news:z4%kc.11723$kh4.739236@attbi_s52...

What is the best fly for catching Crappie?

I don't know, but I got lots of crappy flies :-)

Back in Ohio, crappie were the "elusive" fish that I
always wanted to take some time to target, but never did.
I always thought they were beautiful fish, and was
pleasantly surprised every time one of us brought one
in. TV shows that would show them catching these _huge_
2lb'rs ought of southern reservoirs were enough to
make me want to start talkin' with a drawl :-)

I once caught a _very_ nice crappie (for OH at least),
well over a pound, while bass fishing in LaDue Reservoir,
and the only other one I've seen about that big was one
that we netted in the Chagrin River. As kids when we would
go to the river we usually brought along a cast net or
a two-handled seine, and once when the river was _very_
high and muddy, we ran the seine up through the submerged
willows and when we brought it up, there's this huge crappie
flopping in the middle. I don't think I had ever even seen
a crappie in there before that, or after come to think
of it. But there it was.

Jon.