With a slider, the mainline runs through the float’s eye once it hits the water, checked by a stop knot that can be moved up and down the line to adjust the depth. If a swim is 15ft deep, the knot ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.