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Reply With QuoteSorry not trying to hijack your thread skip... I use some heads similar to what you posted under a float with good success... Never casted anything similar to that tho
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Can you post a pic of a jig like you use casting ctom? I have always just cast normal jigheads with sickle hooks am I missing the boat?
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Sorry not trying to hijack your thread skip... I use some heads similar to what you posted under a float with good success... Never casted anything similar to that tho
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Hey no problem, I am hear to help others, but at same time if there is something I don't know then I am here to learn as well! Got to see what everyone else does that works and I am open to learning and always have been!Originally Posted by VaCrappieMan
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Here you go VA.
There's an un-rigged 1/32 ounce half way down the right side of the picture and a 1/16 is rigged just under it. You'll notice the forward position of the eye. When cast and retrieved this allows the bait to make a nice darting action without the pivoting of the hook upward you get with the 90 degree legs on conventional hooks. I do a lot of drifting with the wind....something we seem to not be short on here in Minnesota....and we often are moving right along. Almost faster than a nice trolling speed. I generally use this technique in the warm summer months when the crappies hang at mid column over 30 to 40 feet of water. On 4 pound line and a 1/16 head its not unusual to see the line running at about 50 degree in the water when the wind is humping and the crappies smack the baits. Using comventional heads we were missing hits so I tried these hooks in an old mold that I modded a bit and bingo....hooking percentages went straight uphill.
