Jeffrey Carrieres, 34, recently began creating and selling an array of colorful bass jigs and other jigheads through his new enterprise, Squanchy’s Lures.

A great jig presentation for those deep crappie is to tip a jig, lower to bottom, reel up a couple inches and simply put the rod down but watch it while slow drifting with maybe an occasional wiggle.

Heavier jigs fall faster, often descending too quickly for lethargic crappie to strike. It would seem to make sense then that smaller lures would work better.

Leavenworth, Kansas-based ProTuff Baits is set to begin offering its durable crappie jigs online this weekend when its new website launches Sunday.

You will see my favorite selection of crappie jig bodies at this website. By the way, Monkey Milk, Glacier and Blue Ice are excellent colors for daytime in clear water.

When fishing for suspended crappie just set the jig under a bobber at the fish's depth and slowly reel in with an occasional twitch.