First crappie on a fly rod!

[adglife]

So, I was happy to have the chance to catch my first crappie on a flyrod, ever!

My post here:

http://sparetimefish.blogspot.com/2012/04/graduate-dont-mind-if-i-do-or-am.html

I had a nice sized one smack a gurgler I use for bass. Been getting suggestions for foam spiders, small poppers. Caught all of these on a small white popper (except for the big popper one).

Anybody else have any suggestions?

-Tony

[blufloyd]

The little K&E green and black popper is a crappie killer or get the long body foam heads and make your own piece of cake really. I use glow green acrylic paint.  I been try to get them to bite a Jimmy spoon but so far... nada.
Cold snap is throwing fish off....

[bluegillbob]

I've caught plenty of crappies on black wooly buggers (size 10)...day or night.

Cheers,

Robert

[adglife]

Nice! I'll remember that. I still need to figure out how to best visualize size by hook #. When someone says "#10 woolly bugger", I typically think of a size two, then a fifth the size... don't know if that's accurate.

[Breamchaser]

adglife, welcome to Warm Fly. Lots of great folks here with lots of information. Enjoy yourself here and ask questions someone(s) will always answer, take care and just keep on keeping on, John.

[bluegillbob]

Nice! I'll remember that. I still need to figure out how to best visualize size by hook #. When someone says "#10 woolly bugger", I typically think of a size two, then a fifth the size... don't know if that's accurate.

If you need to see the size of the hook, simply locate some hooks and look at them. 

#10 hook simply means "size 10" hook.

Flyrods have similar ratings too: #4 rod means "4 weight."

Cheers,

Robert