Keith Lusher 03.17.23
In the world of crappie fishing, anglers usually maintain they hand near the vest. So after I made a fishing journey with John Guillot of Kiln, Miss. I wasn’t relying on getting a lot info out of him.
On the experience to the boat launch nevertheless, Guillot started telling me a few new concoction he’s been utilizing to catch extra crappie. “This year I am on pace to beat my record of 2,500 crappie caught,” he mentioned.
Guillot fishes the Pearl River Delta which comprises the East, Middle, and West Pearl Rivers. Last yr he found a brand new manner so as to add scent to his jig with out repeatedly having to spray on attractant.
“One day I was mixing up some epoxy to load into a syringe in order to fill voids in a customer’s transom,” he mentioned. “Then the thought got here to me, ‘Is the syringe is strong enough to inject a scent into a hollow-bodied tube jig?” He tried injecting a jig with a product called Slab Sauce made by Crappie.com. Guillot said the sauce is the absolute best in the world of crappie attractants. After injecting the hollow-bodie tube jig, he noticed the liquid draining out. Guillot needed to thicken the Slab Sauce in order to make the injection stay put inside the jig. “I took an old bottle of Crappie Nibbles, mixed them with worm oil help soften them, then mixed that with the Slab Sauce,” he said. The end result was a mixture with a dough-like consistency that was thin enough to flow through a, epoxy syringe, but thick enough to remain inside the tube jig for numerous casts.
The Recipe
When preparing his sauce, Guillot starts with a container of Crappie Nibbles. He adds a Tablespoon of worm oil to the cup and begins working the oil in with a fork. After adding the Slab Sauce he crushes the ingredients in the cup, smashing everything until it becomes a smooth thick pasty consistency without any lumps. “You don’t need any lumps in it since you gained’t have the ability to push it out of the syringe tip,” Guillot mentioned. Then he fills 3-4 syringes midway with the attractant and slides them right into a compartment in his deal with field. When he’s fishing he takes out a syringe and lays it on the bow of his boat to make use of when ever he wants it. “The stuff’s amazing! I can catch a bunch fish before having to refill the body,” he mentioned.
I can attest to Guillot’s secret sauce first hand. We pulling as much as our first spot which was an underwater root ball in 10 ft of water. Guillot crammed up his tube jig along with his sauce and provides the string to me. I crammed up my jig, and decrease down my line. We each had been utilizing easy off-brand chartreuse tube jigs with a black physique and a chartreuse skirt. John glanced at his Panoptix display pointing to a spot on the water’s floor and mentioned, “Right there!” I let down my line and when the highest of my rod got here to the water’s floor, I held the rod nonetheless and felt a thump extra related to a speckled trout than than a crappie. After a fast hook-set I launched a stable 13-inch slab into the boat. We caught over 30 crappie all through the day and the one factor I observed is that the fish had been swallowing the jigs like I’ve by no means seen earlier than; I had to make use of a needle-nose piers to take away the hooks out of three of the fish I caught.
Since our journey I’ve replicated Guillot’s injection and have observed a rise within the quantity of crappie I’ve caught. If you’re in search of an attractant that’s confirmed and lasts quite a few casts, I extremely suggest utilizing these two merchandise mixed as an injection in your subsequent crappie journey.
