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Reply With QuoteThere is a time and place for everything from straight plastic, plastic and minnow, gnat with minnow, or crankbait. Don't be afraid to try different ways.
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Nice to hear you guys are catching them on plastics/jigs without minnows. I have no prob using minnows but getting bait is a real hop in the butt, here in south jersey. I'm gonna try spider rigging with both plastics and minnows. Hopefully laziness doesn't get the best of me and I'll try minnows too.
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There is a time and place for everything from straight plastic, plastic and minnow, gnat with minnow, or crankbait. Don't be afraid to try different ways.
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All good input so far. I have always used just plastics. Yes, I have tried using minnows and tipping with minnows, even tied some gnats to try also. What I wound up with were stripes out the wazoo. 6 rods out and 5 go down in 3 seconds and not a crappie in the bunch. The tangled lines made me give it up. The minnow man doesn't like me. What I will say is to try every different type of plastic in proven colors to find what works best on your lakes. I started with Panfish Assassins in about every color there was. Then came Bobby Garland Baby shad and they did well also. I have used hand ties also but the color has to be right on or they don't get touched. One thing I learned is that black duo lock snaps didn't effect the bite and made changing colors very easy. Here in FL the stripe aren't as thick and I might try minnows again but they're really gonna have to do exceptional for me to get on the meat wagon again.
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Plus... Minners seem to make the fish hold on longer ...till she looks up from minner play'n and realizes she's got a bite ...
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I have been on a quest this year to fish with jigs and leave the minnow bucket at home, it has worked out pretty good too. I spider rig quiet a bit in Summer and have tryed to keep track of what worked best minnows vs plastics with a crappie nibble if needed and most of the time the plastic has done much better than the straight minnow. We have a 2 pole limit in Ohio but when 2 of Us are fishing double minnow rigs, you got to figure thats 8 minnows just to bait up and start! My bait guy loves Me, but I dont like Him that much so I'm using plastics more and more, My go to plastics are Bobby Garland brand but do use others.
I will say this Month I've gone back to Minnows and have found that the smaller the minnow the better this time of year.
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