Thread: Live bait vs. Artificial experiment - Need some input

What you've got it some people are die hard minnow or jig people and one or the other will got there feeling hurt. The reel truth is it will change form day to day . These jig vs minnows get some people all out of shape. Only thing I think you might have made it more fair is tip the jig with a minnow and put the SS on the other jig.

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Originally Posted by crappie cowboy

It seems like you are trying to see if you can trick a crappie into thinking the plastic jig with slab sauce is as good a bait as a minnow. For me I would fish with the real deal [minnow] that jig makers are trying to copy. By the time you pay for the jigs, and the sauce you can buy the real minnow that already has the smell built in. Interesting study though ...

But, Cowboy .... you're forgetting that minnows die and have to be repurchased a lot more often than the jigs/sauce do. I may have $0.50 invested in a jighead & a single plastic minnow "copy" ... but, I'm also more likely to catch 5 times the number of fish on that jig/plastic than I am on a single minnow (or even $0.50 worth of minnows).

Any experiment should reduce variables as much as possible to get a definitive result ...

If the experimental goal is to determine real minner smell vs artificial minner smell then the same identical size/shape/color bait should be used for both participants ...

Smash the minner up and rub it on 1 participant ... Use artificial scent on the 2nd ...
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If the goal is the age old argument of jigs vs minners = live minners must be used (because that's how minners are fished) ...

Rickie

Have 2 dead minnows. One with scent and one without scent.

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

But, Cowboy .... you're forgetting that minnows die and have to be repurchased a lot more often than the jigs/sauce do. I may have $0.50 invested in a jighead & a single plastic minnow "copy" ... but, I'm also more likely to catch 5 times the number of fish on that jig/plastic than I am on a single minnow (or even $0.50 worth of minnows).

You are right CP I didn't think about, you old tight wad ...hehe

I fish with minnows a lot myself. I don't have to buy them as I just catch them out of the family catfish pond. When fishing with the minnows I check them every now and then as to see if one is dead. The reason why is I have found that crappie really go for the live minnow best. I will even change them out if they don't look and act lively enough. Now I do fish with artificial baits some also and I have and keep several kinds and types on board. When the fish want them I will fish with the artificial and I have several different scents bought and some homemade( Shipahoy shared one of these with me). I have been planning on trying the SlabSauce in the future as this is just what us fishermen do. We have to have and try everything at least once and we never know as the fish and lakes are all different and this could be the best thing that I have every used. I am like most other fishermen looking for that secret weapon so to out fish all others. I am old school so I will always have some minnows onboard as well as my black/chartreuse, key lime pie, etc. artificial baits also. Really don't matter what you use or how you use it as long as you are having fun as that's what it's all about. Tight lines and I hope everyone is having a great fall catch.

Dead minnows are not very good crappie bait. OP, yes you are missing something.

I will go toe to toe with a minnow, using a jig with a crappie nibble, I am going to try the SS. The video was fine, it started this post with a bang, always love to hear the info a review brings to my learning crappie fishing game.