Thread: sliders vs curlytails

I also use acid rain along with many other colors

Tube jigs. Work best for my style, except they pull off the barb after a while.
I think the right depth is most important, then a color they can see. Shape doesn't matter. Action is also not that important unless it creates a more visible bait, like a little glitter in it to get some flash. Jig bites are reactive, sometime slow, sometimes immediate-- they don't know what they're eating, just eating what they see.

I agree with Chief. I think if you locate fish and get something near their mouth, they are going to bite. The crappie I have cleaned the past few days have had lots of fat in them, which means they are eating good.

Originally Posted by JordanLimit

I agree with Chief. I think if you locate fish and get something near their mouth, they are going to bite. The crappie I have cleaned the past few days have had lots of fat in them, which means they are eating good.

And GOOD EATIN, too!

I use water temp as the guage for which plastic I put on the back of my jig. When I start back titelinin in the winter, I've done best with a maraboo/rubber jig with a minnow. this is when the lake first starts warmin after its winter low. I troll very slow, .2-.4mph an stop an sit still alot. When the water temp stabilizes over 50, I start flatlinin RoadRunner heads with Slider grubs glued on. I'll troll at .7-1.2mph with a slow "S" pattern so my jigs speed up on the outside an slow on the inside turns. The "thump" of the Slider draws more strikes in the dingy water I'm usually fishin then. After the water temp gets to the mid 50's, I've found the Kalin Triple Threat on RR head to out fish any other offering. I'll start castin Slider grubs on Slider heads when they start spawnin on the laydowns an bushes. This is the 4-wheel drive jig that will go just about anywhere. After they spawn we start catchin a lot under docks an for this the best combination I've found is the Bobby Garland Baby Shad on a 1/16 oz ball head jig. It skips better than any I've tried. When they move to the brush I use FishDocs World Famous Bucktail jig almost exclusively for the rest of the yr. I've not run up on a plastic tail that can beat it very often...