Thread: hand tied jigs vs tubes

Originally Posted by JigginPoleJoe

Ignorance and Idiots must be addressed!

You reckon God made us all different for a reason?

Yes sir!

so another words people like me who struggle to find fish are idiots. lol

Originally Posted by kmorgan

so another words people like me who struggle to find fish are idiots. lol

Think he was looking in the mirror when he posted that.

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this thread went south in a hurry lol

Originally Posted by kmorgan

so another words people like me who struggle to find fish are idiots. lol

Absolutely not sir!
By NO means!

You said it "Find Fish"

If you find them you will catch them IF you keep a jig or minnow in the water.

If color made that much difference we would all probably be using the same color...

Minnows come in one color and they eat them every day!

Settle down guys or this one will get locked!!

If I ever get to the point of thinking that there is only one way of catching Crappie and that every other way is flawed in some way or not "sporting" enough it will be time to check myself into a nursing home, LOL!!! I won't pretend to know everything and I do try to learn as much as I can from every trip. We continually try new things and watch other fishermen while on the water believing fully well that every other fisherman out there knows at least ONE thing that we Don't know that can make us a better fisherman. The best fisherman in the world is not going to fool himself into believing that he knows everything about the sport and quit trying new and different techniques (or he wouldn't be the best in the world to start with). A year ago I would have not considered using minners because artificial bait had always worked very well catching plenty of large slabs without difficulty. Weekend before last on Lake Washington made a believer out of us. A month ago we spend three days fishing that lake and literally couldn't buy a bite on a minner but wore'em out on Roadrunners dressed with BG baby shad........Why they wouldn't take a minner??? I have no idea and won't pretend to know.....other fishermen on the lake told us they had figured the same thing out and had gone to straight jigs (this blows the theory that fish don't know the difference between plastic, hair or minners, LOL). BTW, those Crappie have a brain for a reason....figure that one out. Weekend before last was a different story. If you weren't using a minner you might as well have gone to the house. Folks, there were some high-powered crappie men fishing that Magnolia Crappie Club tourney that were using different techniques that only caught a few fish all day long (and they were using minners). It was won by a husband-wife team using a Wild-Cat trolling method of erratic left-right turns that they happened to figure out by accident. Out of their 7 biggest fish which weighed 17.23 lbs they had 3 fish that went over three lbs including one that went 3.49. They culled another 14 lbs of fish and everything they caught was over 2 lbs. This was in open water with a 27 degree temp and winds from 20-27 mph which made a chill factor of zero degrees. They caught'em on Meatgetter's Minner Critters. This shows that to catch large fish consistently you have to be versatile, willing to try different things and be open minded about what will work no matter how crazy it sounds. I am not ashamed to say that we didn't place in that tourny that day but we did gain enough new knowledge about crappie fishing to more than make up for it and that will be worth much more to us than a trophy in the long run. There are no "givens" in Crappie fishing.....they can change overnight. A person can make general assumptions about how fish will act in certain conditions but also know that they won't always follow the rules.

Originally Posted by JigginPoleJoe

Absolutely not sir!
By NO means!

You said it "Find Fish"

If you find them you will catch them IF you keep a jig or minnow in the water.

If color made that much difference we would all probably be using the same color...

Minnows come in one color and they eat them every day!

I think Joe's got it right. You find some fish and dangle some bait in front of them long enough. Someone is gonna get hungry. If someone pulls out of fresh slice of pizza, how long could you resist?