crappie

On the west slope you can't use live minnows, so I use small chartreuse, silver, or white tube jigs on a tiny slip head underneath a clear slip bobber. I just set the stop to the depth the crappies are holding, starting about 4 feet below the surface and working progressively deeper until I contact fish. This seems to work very well and when I find fish I catch them. I always tip the tube with a small sliver of nightcrawler or a maggot if I can find them. We have some decent crappie fishing over here in some lakes. Highline lake has a lot of them with some big ones. Harvey Gap and Rio Blanco lake have large populations of smaller crappies in the six to eight inch range and occasionally bigger, but they are plentiful. Crawford lake has a smaller population that is tough to find at times, but they average as big as the larger fish from highline. Some real slabs.
We used to have some ponds near the river that were full of slabs and some hog bass. But the squawfish kissers poisoned them all. Oh well, that's another story.
Stick with small tubes or twister tails under slipfloats, or use small live minnows if they are legal.