Dave,
I cought most of my crappie on a slender spoon, silver with green decal. It was tipped with red/ white maggots. The most important thing was keeping the bait moving . Another fella fishing near me one day was using a purple moon jig and did ok as well.
Picked up a few fish off a dead stick with a a minnow but not many.
Didn't keep track of numbers, many small crappie and hammer handle pike. Kept and brought home a dozen 9"+ fish, big fish was 12.