Thread: Ever seen one of these?

Well if you see a blue walk thru windshield with rods hanging off the side and with a half frozen moron standing up with TM pedal in hand that would be me. So give me a shout.

My grandpa used telescoping rods with Zebco 33s and caught lord knows how many crappie. No electricity though!

Without seeing a picture, I'm unsure using your description. I am familiar with the type fishing your dad spoke of. Jigger, dabbling, doodling, and I'm sure many other names was made popular by the fellow that invented the sneak boat. It consisted of a telescoping pole, a 12" line of very heavy test, a piece of stiff wire attached to the tip end of the rod, and lure attached to the end of the line. The technique employed was to ease the boat along, with rod in hand, and extended, the bait was presented near all visual structure, with rod tip close to the water, and wire extension in the water. The rod was moved erratically causing the wire to make a commotion like feeding fish or a bait scurrying across the waters surface drawing predators in to investigate, and striking the lure that is mere inches from the commotion. This a very up close and personal type fishing. Very intense when a strike occurs as the fish is basically attached to the end of the pole and has to be dragged into the boat. There have been bites from alligators reported to have happened as well. That's exactly what you'd want on the end of you line while fishing from a sneak boat!

Originally Posted by midcarolina

My Dad told me stories before of jig fishing with a very short piece of line maybe 12 inches and actually slapping the tip of the pole in the water to attract fish, he didnt call it jigging...

I saw an old man fishing like this about 25 years ago. I was around 15 years old and it looked odd to me. He was easing along the banks constantly slapping this tip of his pole on the water. I never saw him catch a fish but it looked like he knew what he was doing.

I did some prototype work on a jigger pole for a guy here in St. George around 01--02. Would have to see a picture to know if they were the ones he made. He a house on the Edisto river and use to tear the Bass up on those poles. He sold a good many but I think he quit making them.

These poles are electric jigger poles. The fisherman just laid the pole on the front of the boat and cruised the banks with the vibrator on and the lure just under the surface. The motor on the end is a vibrator motor. I saw a guy doing this a couple years ago on Murray. I watched him and when he got to my house I stopped him and asked him what was he doing. He showed me the rod and said they cost about $200.00. Course I wanted one. I asked him if it worked and he opened the live well on the sneak and it was full of big bass. This type of fishing works best during the spawn when the bass are on the banks. The line that the lure is tied to is only 2 ft long. Just imagine the fight with a 5 lb bass on the rod. The poles use 12 volts to run the vibrator and the lure was a inline spinner bait.

I'm going to get back by and get a pic... it's just a really odd piece of equipment.

Well that's it... thanks sinkermaker I knew someone here would know what they are...