Live Bait Tips

[fishhunter1]

Whats ya'lls favorite live bait to use and how do ya fish it? Mine is minnows.

[NIMROD]

Mine is tube jigs, that's as close to live as it gets for me.

[arkansasbowhunter]

Didn't know there was other options for live bait. I guess maybe goldfish. My crappie like them but I am a jig man also.

[DrNip]

Just picked up some rosey-red minnows last night. Never tried them. Old man says he only gets them at a certain time of the year which I took for as now.

[dblevens]

Always wonder why nobody uses crawdads, cause I clean em all the time with little baby crawdads in their bellies. I use minners from time to time, but its usually a jig with a nibble for me.

[bobgill]

crawdads are very seasonal. Most folks around rake them out of the ditches along the road. Preferred bait for sand bass. One local bait store has them for sale right now. $1.89 per dozen. Certainly not cheap.

[slaters#1]

minnows

1. on a #2 hook (with a split shot about 6" above the hook) dropped down beside a tree, stump, etc.
2. on a #2 hook (with a 1/2 oz weight about a foot above the hook) slowly trolled above those stumps when the water is high or fish are suspended

[MEATGETTER]

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

[kycreek]

I go with no.1

minnows

1. on a #2 hook (with a split shot about 6" above the hook) dropped down beside a tree, stump, etc.
2. on a #2 hook (with a 1/2 oz weight about a foot above the hook) slowly trolled above those stumps when the water is high or fish are suspended

[camo xpress]

i am completly done with minnows ,we have a local bait shop and covenience store close to the interstate , since they changed owners you can ask and pay for 5 dozen and get maybe 2 1/2 dozen just about every time you go in there- SO I DONT GO IN THERE EVER ANYMORE -that combined with the trouble of keeping um alive and rebaiting hooks , no thanks fishing is supposed to be fun , i use jigs and ONLY JIGS!