Fishing small for big fish...period

[Micropterus salmoides]

This will be an ongoing thread.
A personal experiment for me... in my down time from fishing. Won't be fast n furious with my lack of time, but I'd like to have it all one place and maybe someone besides me will get something from it.
I used to fish 3-4 times a week, mostly after work stuff...1-3 hrs max. Got pretty decent at catching supper. Actually got better than decent at it for a while, to a point where my phone rang too much. Met a bunch of fisherman in my area who are great, who I look up to and admire.. and every one fishes a diff way...
When I say a diff. way, I mean jigs....
Single long poling - vertical, vertical pitching, pitching docks....
Ain't too many gon troll in the river and I'm not interested in casting.

I've always fished 1/16 to 1/8 oz heads... diff hook sizes bc I pour and tie my own.
There's lotsa diff techniques for weights, so I'd like to have all that info with me if I'm ever getting skunked.
If I can, I'd like to make comparisons among the jig slash catching at some point. With a growing family it'll be slow, but I think it may be productive.

I'd hope people who tie n fish similar ways in similar water systems would add in....? For fun at least?


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[deathb4disco]

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.

[Bayou Boy]

Adam I think you wanting to start a thread about vertical jigging. I am a long poler with a hand full of hand tied jigs working tree tops, stumps, logs, etc.
I'm not into casting and popping a cork. I'm into feeling that tump.
I'm into trying to figure out what kind of wood they on, big wood, top branches, trees.
I just started tying my on jigs and just recently start pouring and painting my own heads
I think this would be a good thread

[Fishaholic_Jim]

I grew up fishing Truman lake in Missouri where we excel at single pole jigging. We hunt the brushpiles for crappie like rabbit hunters looking to flush out several in each place. Our predominate weapon of choice is a 10-11 ft pole. Mine is a 10 ft Ozark rod which has plenty of backbone but a very sensitive tip. Jig wise it boils down to preference. Kevin Rogers in the Crappie Masters calls this his home lake and he uses mostly 1/4 chartreuse jigs with black/hot pink bodies. I myself usually use 1/16 and color is determined of course by fish preference for the day. Single pole jigging is the purest form of crappie fishing because it's all about the thump.

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[STUMP HUNTER]

Single pole jigging is about the thump and I have guys that use sizes from 1/24 up to 1/4 oz jigs. I believe fisherman finds that one size jig that works the best for them and it is hard for them to change sizes. If I'm jigging I like to be able to feel the jig and a 1/8 does this for me but will also use a 1/16.

[deathb4disco]

Single pole jigging is the purest form of crappie fishing because it's all about the thump...

Single pole jigging is about the thump ...

But is that what he's interested in? I've read the OP a dozen times and still can't tell you what it's about ... or how the thread title relates to the post ... or why this is posted in the Jig Tying forum.

[Ketchn]

Yawl flat lost me ....lol

[STUMP HUNTER]

But is that what he's interested in? I've read the OP a dozen times and still can't tell you what it's about ... or how the thread title relates to the post ... or why this is posted in the Jig Tying forum.

[Micropterus salmoides]

Ha. A tangent I went off on that went way off the county road!
Basically, I'm gon start tying and trying to fish jigs from 1/32 on down.
Solely jigging with a long pole.
I'll post pics of jigs and catches if they occur. Maybe make some comparisons...
If anyone wants to post pics of jigs they tie and fish in the same way, I'd like to see em. And if they'd like to share stories and or techniques with lighter weight jigs, I'd love to read em.

Any better?


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[Fishaholic_Jim]

Ha. A tangent I went off on that went way off the county road!
Basically, I'm gon start tying and trying to fish jigs from 1/32 on down.
Solely jigging with a long pole.
I'll post pics of jigs and catches if they occur. Maybe make some comparisons...
If anyone wants to post pics of jigs they tie and fish in the same way, I'd like to see em. And if they'd like to share stories and or techniques with lighter weight jigs, I'd love to read em.

Any better?


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I use 1/64th jigs for bluegill and I jig from the bank for those.

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