First time tie

[eriksat1]

I read some place the perfect length for crappie is a total overall length of the jig including hair/marabou is 1-1/2" inch long? They said any longer or any shorter and you will catch less fish. This was only crappie they were talking about. So far for me the 1-1/2" length works great for me on crappie. Note: I fish the far northern states, bigger may be better down south I don't know? But we do catch crappie up here to 15" and the 1-1/2" rule still seems to hold true.

[PA_Slabs]

Ii gotta agree they are nice for 1st ties. One thing for bream and blue gills you're going to want to keep them shorter. They are limited on what they can eat due to the size of their mouth. keep it up.

[PA_Slabs]

I read some place the perfect length for crappie is a total overall length of the jig including hair/marabou is 1-1/2" inch long? They said any longer or any shorter and you will catch less fish. This was only crappie they were talking about. So far for me the 1-1/2" length works great for me on crappie. Note: I fish the far northern states, bigger may be better down south I don't know? But we do catch crappie up here to 15" and the 1-1/2" rule still seems to hold true.

Maybe as a general rule of thumb 1 1/2" is some type of standard to someone. I fall into the same boat (pun intended) as you in that I am fishing northern waters. After ice off, we were using 1/80th kip tail jigs that were no long than 1 1/4". This past weekend my buddy was runing 1/16 oz 2"+ long hackle tail jigs on the same lake.

[jiggshooter]

they look good you can send me a few to test out for you lol

[Nightprowler]

For your first time, you did amazing well! Plus you seem to have a nice wide variety of materials.
NightProwler

[waxnslabs]

Lakes do differ from what size they prefer. I know most of mine are probably about 4 inches after I tip it with a shiner. That's a large bait, but it doesn't slow them down. Also I don't troll cranks but a lot of people I know do and catch a lot of fish and huge ones at that. I use a 1/4 oz jig head and am sold that a larger bait will catch just as many if not more, along with more quality. Sometimes you gotta take articles with a grain of salt because a fish isn't going to not hit a lure because it's not just the right size. Most shad are way larger than jigs so they have no choice as to what they eat at times.

Here's a prime example: This came out of a 14 inch white crappie, about the average size for this lake. This shad is 3 inches long x 1 inch from back to belly

[eriksat1]

We don't have shad up here, that is why I think the typical lake shiner minnow up here is about 1" to 1-1/2" that or they are eating small bugs. I guess the main thing would be to match the size of the available forage that the fish are eating. And about the only way is to catch fish then cut the stomach open. I very rarely find anything very big in there stomachs. We are talking crappie. I have noticed before that on this crappie board there is a big difference in how people fish for crappie down south, and how we fish for them up here in the far north. You go small with light line no bigger than 4 Lb test, or get skunked.

[Fatman]

Nice for your first ones, and it'll get better with practice. Now post some photo's of the first fish you get with them!!!!!!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

[lcookie]

A few from today.

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