Thread: How in the Heck...

Originally Posted by luvpt

It just takes a little practice. We use 6# line with a 1/2 oz weight 18-24 inches above a single 1/16 oz jig. Bobby Garland baby shad is our first choice in vegas, chart/red glitter, nat cricket, elec chicken, blue thunder, ect. Also the Mo'Glo works good in the Ghastly Minnow and Pink Phantom. We find the fish with DF and drop a marker....Then we put out the lines...Throw them out about 40 ft or so away from the boat and let them swing down to keep jig from tangling with the weight. When it is straight down we slowly lower it to the bottom then pick it up a couple of cranks and put the rod in the holder. Takes a little time to get all the rods set up and fishing. Most of the time we are trying to keep all eight lines as vertical as possible while watching for an extremely light bite. They are lazy right now and you have to put that jig right in front of their eyes and tease them for a while before they will take it. This time of year the LM crappie will suck that jig in for a taste and spit it back out before you can even see the bite. Many times a fishermen who is not having any luck on LM is just not paying enough attention to the rod tips and is not detecting that bite! I have not had any luck with anything larger than 1/16 and sometimes even go to a 1/32. We try to stay right on top of the fish and usually stay inside of an area the size of an acre. If you catch'em just right LM can produce gigantic black specks that are as large as any I've seen anywhere. Blue Thunder and myself caught 14 thick slabs one morning that ran from a small of 17 inches up to 19.25 inches. The battery was down on the scales so we didn't get to weigh any of them before they got cleaned! Granted, that was a few years ago but we still catch an occasional headturner!

Thank you for restoring my faith in you...lol I had some serious reservations about getting a 1/16 ounce jig down 50 ft..lol
Yep,,I can see where that would work well, and if the crappie move deeper, I may have to give it a shot...so far with the 1/4 oz jig, unless its gale force winds or strong current, I can bump bottom along..these fish sure like the jig on the fall and I try to give'm what they want...Never caught a 18" crappie,,let alone a bigger one!!

I use 1/16 or 1/8 and tight line in the fall and winter. I can feel the bite better with a larger jig head at those depths. Oh yea, I use a fluorocarbon 6lb line to help feel the bite. Sometimes it can be tough to feel em hit it down that deep. I use the same size jig I typically fish with and sometimes tip it with a minnow.