Thread: Live Bait Tips

Jig fishermen outfish me 10 to 1 usually. Heck everyone does.

But I caught a limit today on Nimrod with minnows. I came to grips long ago with myself.......I have a lot of mental problems () and watching a cork is great therapy for me. I'd rather catch 5 on minnows than 25 on jigs. Someday I'll have to change, cause minnows are hard to come by lately. I save 'em all.......but summer is impossible to keep them for long. Anyway, placing that minnow in the right spot, and WAITING for a hit, and learning to read the cork..............is my therapy. Today, every single minnow I pulled out was missing an eye or was mangled like a butcher had gone after it. And I seldom detected a bite (in the wind).....so I have lots to learn, it seems.

But I love minnows. And I'm about to get too old to change.

But I am in awe of a good jig fisherman.

Originally Posted by Buckrub

Jig fishermen outfish me 10 to 1 usually. Heck everyone does.

But I caught a limit today on Nimrod with minnows. I came to grips long ago with myself.......I have a lot of mental problems () and watching a cork is great therapy for me. I'd rather catch 5 on minnows than 25 on jigs. Someday I'll have to change, cause minnows are hard to come by lately. I save 'em all.......but summer is impossible to keep them for long. Anyway, placing that minnow in the right spot, and WAITING for a hit, and learning to read the cork..............is my therapy. Today, every single minnow I pulled out was missing an eye or was mangled like a butcher had gone after it. And I seldom detected a bite (in the wind).....so I have lots to learn, it seems.

But I love minnows. And I'm about to get too old to change.

But I am in awe of a good jig fisherman.

Fellas, I love to fish with a jig, but he's right, there is certainly something very theraputic about watching a floater disappear under the water.

Originally Posted by MEATGETTER

i know wax worms are great tipped on a jig in the mississippi oxbows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

X2.

1. Minnows-- Dunked, Trawled, and Trawled with a Minner Critter!!!.

2. Wax Worms-- Single Poled with a Jig and Tube, or Trawled on a Jig. Tight Lined or under a Cork for Bream on a 1/32 Jig, No Skirt!!

3. Crickets-- Tight Lined or Under a Cork for Bream.

4. Nibbles-- they smell alive (or maybe Dead)!!! LOL


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