Thread: Hammering them On Dardanelle/4-11-15

Nice.

Originally Posted by hoglaw

So I suspect "vertical jigging" means something similar to what I do for blue cats in the winter in deep water - you find spots that are holding fish, lower jig down to certain depth, then bounce up and down? You're "single pole" fishing instead of spider rigging. All that sound about right?

So my question is when you're doing this, are you tight-lining the jig and moving it very subtly, or are you bouncing it quite a bit and covering a foot or more of depth? Or do you just kind of figure out what they want?

And is it different from "pushing jigs" in that pushing jigs involves lowering a jig to a depth then using the trolling motor to push it along - hopefully not in front of the spinning prop?

Hey Hoglaw we try and hold the jig very still with just a slight flick with the tip of the jig pole every now and then. Most times still is better. We always try to maintain contact with the brush with our jigs in the spring. Its important to feel the jig in the brush and ever so slightly raise and lower the jig over branches. as you feel the jig settle between the branches this is where most strikes occur. But STILL for the most part is the name of the game. We will push the jigs or troll slowly after fishing the cover until we feel more cover, then we will try to slowly and methodically work that cover. In the spring we are most always around brush or drop offs with cover stumps rock piles or wood. On sunny days fish are most often deep in the cover so a heavier head helps you feel the cover better. On cloudy days, early morning or late in the evening fish will often move up in the brush so we shallow up in the cover to make sure they have not rose up in the cover. Unless we are fishing above water cover cypress trees or what not we most often use two poles apiece. A good bow mounted DF is critical as it let's you see when your approaching that Good Ole brush pile. Hope this helps.

Good job guys

Originally Posted by CrappiePro

Hey Hoglaw we try and hold the jig very still with just a slight flick with the tip of the jig pole every now and then. Most times still is better. We always try to maintain contact with the brush with our jigs in the spring. Its important to feel the jig in the brush and ever so slightly raise and lower the jig over branches. as you feel the jig settle between the branches this is where most strikes occur. But STILL for the most part is the name of the game. We will push the jigs or troll slowly after fishing the cover until we feel more cover, then we will try to slowly and methodically work that cover. In the spring we are most always around brush or drop offs with cover stumps rock piles or wood. On sunny days fish are most often deep in the cover so a heavier head helps you feel the cover better. On cloudy days, early morning or late in the evening fish will often move up in the brush so we shallow up in the cover to make sure they have not rose up in the cover. Unless we are fishing above water cover cypress trees or what not we most often use two poles apiece. A good bow mounted DF is critical as it let's you see when your approaching that Good Ole brush pile. Hope this helps.

That does help a lot. Thank you. I grew up in Jacksonville and was used to fishing water that was "clear" if you could see the prop. Adjusting to this part of the world took a while, and I'm just now getting into crappie other than when they're on the banks.

The areas I fish on the arkansas river have lots of fish but are short on brush piles. I need to look harder for them or at least figure out what's keeping the fish there.

CP and CG, you guys are the bomb on those crappie. When I grow up I want to be just like you guys, and ABH too, might as well throw in FOSH, but prettier than any of you. The later part will be the hardest.

Lmbo Mac d

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

CP and CG, you guys are the bomb on those crappie. When I grow up I want to be just like you guys, and ABH too, might as well throw in FOSH, but prettier than any of you. The later part will be the hardest.

I always thought I was a better looking Crappie fishiner man than Fosh. I mean I sport the perfect beer belly and all, I aint bald and I got one of the best farmer tans around. Thanks MD now I have a complex dude.

Great work boys!