vertical? 2 questions

[fish_4_all]

I can teach goldfish to eat from my finger too in an aquarium. This doesn't mean they will come even close to me if in a large pond. Side by side identical jig testing in open water fishnig them the exact asame way is the only way to know if it matters and WHEN it matters.

As I said before, for vertical jigging it will make a whole lot more of a difference than cast and retrieve of any kind, IMHO. Trout have proved this for years and why I fly fished crappie it made a load of difference that fly stayed horizontal as long as possible on the fall. On a strip and retrieve, they didn't care if it was spinning fouled on the line but on the fall it mattered.

[Redman]

This is what is great about a national crappie board. We get to learn about other parts of the country and their techniques. Fish 4 all would get about 3 weeks with a fly rod on crappies down here but could fish most of the year on bream. This time of year longlineing will be the best way to catch them down in my neck of the woods. Some of you are now having to fish them vertically thur the ice. some at 3 feet and some at 20 feet.

I do think that two people fishing in the same area the same pattern same depth that would be a good way and I have done that with two poles. I think that this would be a bad comparison because of my shakeing. I have although fished within 5 feet to other friends and found that color of pattern was a bigger factor than if the jig hung perfectly vertical. Last Fall one of my old fishing friends was on the water I pulled up to see how he was doing. He was on his way to the end of a 25 fish limit. He told me that a blue body jig with a white tail would take a lot of fish. He was right we both did good that day. This is just antadotal evidence that sometimes its color and being where the fish are that are the most important. May be sometimes we sweat to much the small stuff and forget the bigger items. This is just thoughts from a old codger take them for what there worth.

Redman