Minnow's

**Grainraiser** · 02-27-2016, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by shadboy

Papaw taught me to lip hook them if your pulling the minnow and to back hook them if they're mostly sitting still.

That's the way I do it.

Reggie

**captdave** · 02-27-2016, 09:33 AM

Anybody ever tried through the tail?

**wannabe fisherman** · 02-27-2016, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by captdave

Anybody ever tried through the tail?

yes in front of the tail fin so they can swim around almost normal

**Cane Pole** · 02-27-2016, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman

yes in front of the tail fin so they can swim around almost normal

How can it swim almost normal with a hook in it's butt?

**CrappiePappy** · 02-27-2016, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

How can it swim almost normal with a hook in it's butt?

... the optimum word is "almost". They struggle to swim, and that struggling gets the fish's attention. You have to be stationary when fishing them hooked that way, otherwise you'll drown them if you pull them along backwards. Well, I don't know if "drown" is the correct term, but they never seemed to live very long when I've tried it.

You can get the same "struggling to swim" action without hooking them in the tail. You just pinch/clip the tail fins off ... they "wiggle" but have little forward motion.

... cp

**Barnacle Bill** · 02-28-2016, 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by bassadict69

Up through the bottom lip and out the top.

Yes, they will live longer that way.

**wannabe fisherman** · 02-28-2016, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

... the optimum word is "almost". They struggle to swim, and that struggling gets the fish's attention. You have to be stationary when fishing them hooked that way, otherwise you'll drown them if you pull them along backwards. Well, I don't know if "drown" is the correct term, but they never seemed to live very long when I've tried it.

You can get the same "struggling to swim" action without hooking them in the tail. You just pinch/clip the tail fins off ... they "wiggle" but have little forward motion.

... cp

thanks Pappy, yes we fish them under a bobber, sometimes, when fishing off the handicap pier at Patoka. When the bite is slow, we'll try anything to liven it up a little.

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