Northwest Fishing Reports

Anybody have any recipes for good Crappie flies? I'd like to target some Crappies next Spring and I'm building flies with colorful chenille and leggy bodies, with bead heads. Am I thinking right here or should I go in a different direction. I'm new to the world of Crappies, but I know where to find a few.

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http://www.crappie.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://www.chapmancreek.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; can give you some idea's. Type in crappie flies and you will get some more crappie patterns.

Normally I would say yellow, black, and whites with soft hackles and bead heads, but I caught 60 crappie on Liberty Lake a while back on a size 12, brass beaded, olive bugger. I think it looked like a damsel fly larva to them possibly.
My biggest crappie, 15+ inches, I caught on a yellow tailed, black chenille body and a white soft hackle. About size 8 hook.
Good luck.

always had good luck with a small green carrey special but I wasnt necessarily targetting crappie. While living in Metaline I was targetting anything that would bite along the bank of the pend oreille and would get quite a few blue gill with a size 8 green carrey

Thanks Craig. I'll tie some up.