is a jig always a jig?????

[deathb4disco]

Live bait requires much less skill to catch fish

Gotta disagree with you there. Anybody can toss out a worm under a bobber, but good live bait fishing does require skill. I see bad bait fishing all the time -- huge hooks, heavy lines, bobbers big enough to save a drowning man. I rarely see the opposite, though.

[redear]

the best crappie fisherman I know of, fishdoc from eden va. casts 1/32 - 3/32 white buctail jigs no paint and red thread over brushpiles, or the bobby garland baby shad in same weights. when he long line trolls I believe he uses roadrunners with kalin triple threat grubs. when he spider rigs I think he uses soft plastic body jigs with a marabou tail, and tips this with a minnow ( I think ) and when the fish are in the backs of the creeks I think they pull corks behind the boat with jig and minnow. hope I got this info. right. but you hardly ever read where he uses straight minnows. this guy catches thousands of crappie every year and has now started his guide business on kerr lake va.

[docwaldo]

thanks for all the help guys. it is definitely something to think about. gonna get me some new jigs for next weekend. and yes, lfn, i am bringing shiners to darbonne. not a bunch, but a few. bouit a pound or two of the rosie reds.

doc

[hair jig]

You let the fish tell you what it wants. If you see their biting jigs fish jigs if it's minnows use minnows. But in the winter jigs work better than minnows most of the time because they don't want to spend the energy to chase minnows. But if you present a jig with a slight twitch about every 5 to 10 seconds in front of there nose they will suck it in so light that you can't feel it . So you have to watch the rod tip or slight movements in you're line.:D