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.

Cabela’s — the catalog people — have come up with a unique combination jig, live bait and buoyant, slip-sinker rig that’s being touted as “the deadliest jig in walleye fishing history.” It’s called ...