Bite Offs

[Bob/MN]

I was out fishing last Friday for some pan fish. I started out with a horizontal presentation with no luck on the panfish but lost three jigs to Northern's.
I switched over to Shipahoy's vertical Pinman jig. This Lure produces a nice flutter on the drop and was what the fish wanted. The Northern's Let it alone and the pan fish ate it up.

[Crappie 1]

Way to go Bob, nice fish. We loose quite a few jigs to Pike also. Nice catch..

[no1son]

Year around we lose a lot of jigs to cutoffs, too, but for us pike are not the real problem, muskies are. They stock our panfish lakes heavily with them. Oddly enough neither one tend to inhale the small jigs and slow presentations we use, so much as just sip at them, the smaller pike tend to get lip hooked more than the muskies do. The real dinks of both species now tend to hit harder than their bigger brethren on our little jigs and they do cut off more frequently. Also with so many muskies, the resident pike almost never show up when muskies are cruising through, ice or open water. They both are active and eat year around. I wish they had never stocked so many good panfish waters with the muskies.

[Bob/MN]

I loose over twenty jigs a year to Northern's and every once in a while a LM bass will break the lite line I use for panfish. The majority of the time I use four LB test line during the soft water season and two or four LB test during the hard water season.
The last trip out I was using fireline micro ice crystal three LB test.This is a tough line and the northerns still cut it off with no problem. It is strange that a fish that could eat a six to twelve inch meal would bite on a lure less than a inch long. Example: two years ago I iced a 36 inch northern that bite on a 1/2 inch long panfish lure.
On the up side a make my own panfish lures and don't have much money invested just some time.

[Crappie 1]

We fish a lake where you will get 3-4 Pike on a jig pole almost every time out. I think I lost 4 jigs last time we were there. We did get 2 Pike that were keepers. Their good eating. Crappie 2 (Sandy) Takes the bones out. She just fixed some with red & green peppers, soy sauce, Worcester sauce , some onion. Baked it, really good..

[perch]

WOW thats a BIG Crappie and Bluegill I sure wish we had some hogs like that around here Nice catch

[austin34]

While the depth ranges and locations where the crappie come the position vary from one lake
to the next, one thing that never changes is the magnetic attraction crappie have for shad.

[austin34]

While the depth ranges and locations where the crappie come the position vary from one lake
to the next, one thing that never changes is the magnetic attraction crappie have for shad.

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