 Well Thursday, Thursday, you know what that means. Let's get back on the water with Ray and Mandy. This week they talk about crappie and sun fishing tools. Tonight we're gonna talk a little bit about the things that you can use to catch pan fish. Sunfish, crappies, bluegills, you know, they're all bluegills and sunfish are a different species, but they're all pan fish. The number one fishing, the number one sought after fish rather in the United States is the bass, and the number two is the crappie. And we're gonna talk just a little bit about the things that you can use to catch them because it's really important to use the right kind of product. So what I've got here is for crappie fishing. This is my hands down favorite way when I'm going to chase crappie. I've got a casting bobber on, I've got four pound test line, a one sixteenth jig head. And what I've got on right now is a paddle tail, but you can use multiple different plastics to put on here. I don't use live bait most of the time. All these little plastics and a jig head is all you need. There are also products on the market if you don't want to use live bait, and there's certainly nothing wrong with using live leeches or night crawlers or grasshoppers. Pan fish will bite on a variety of flies. You can buy commercial flies, but there's a whole bunch of products made by Berkeley and I'm not promoting the Berkeley company, but these are really good. These are called crappie nibbles. And I'll show you in my hand because everything is rather small, but the little greenish colored ones are the crappie nibbles. And this is a imitation worm, and these are not real, but they're made out of real fish parts, so to fish they taste real. And then we also have a very small leech. And all of these can be put on small little single hooks or they can be put on small little jigs. And you can jig them, you can cast them out into the deeper water and bring it into the weed line and jig it, or you can put it under a bobber and when you see these go down, bang, you set the hook and you got them. So these are all some very basic things that you could buy at the store that work really well for pan fish and I can guarantee you they all work. And like Mandy said, that little puddle jumper she has, that's a phenomenal crappie bait. I'm Ray Gildaw with the Niswa Guides League. And I'm Mandy Yerck, the Bass & Biologist. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.