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[flatfish46]

Prowler it depends upon the waters your fishing and what size bait or species of bait their feeding on at the moment I'd say though I catch more fish on a 1/16 with a #4 hook than anything with the hook open set ,but now that I've used sickles I'll go with those on the 12/20/08 my grandson and I fished in some pretty tough weather they shut down , but by slip rigging with 1/2 oz barrels and using 1/60 oz. jigs I offered them easy prey and picked up 11 more fish its very important to have a assortment of every color that works for you in 3 or 4 sizes this is only My opinion ,but with the constant changing weather here in Texas they dont bite the same thing 2 days in a row!

[skiptomylu]

In the spring I use mostly a 1/32 oz. Roadrunner or regular tied jig and sometimes a 1/16 regular jig if I am trolling water over 6' deep and even more in 11'-13' deep water. If however the wind is blowing enough to give me trouble long line trolling and will go to a 1/8 and troll it right beside me. In the summer mostly 1/8 or 1/4 oz. jig is what I use.

I really want to try some 1/64 oz. next spring trolling for that picky bite. I have them in #8 & #6 Sickle and #8 through #4 in regular bend so I will not have to give on the hook size to use this little jewel.

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[Cane Pole]

Stupid question, but, how do you get those real small jigs to sink? Seems to me with all that feathers and stuff it would reach zero buoyancy and it would take a long time to get to 10 foot depth.. I am not to savvy about small jigs or rather I should say I don't know crap about them.

[brimreaper]

Stupid question, but, how do you get those real small jigs to sink? Seems to me with all that feathers and stuff it would reach zero buoyancy and it would take a long time to get to 10 foot depth.. I am not to savvy about small jigs or rather I should say I don't know crap about them.

sometimes you want those jigs to almost hover...even a picky crappie finds a jig in the face hard to resist when it just sits there wiggling in the crappie's face looking all the world like a small minnow or bug that hasn't got the means or sense to move on. When I dock shoot I like a jig that has a very slow fall rate...that is just a killer pattern around here in the hot hot summer time. You can always put some split shot on your line to make them sink faster it is the small profile that helps on those occasions...try it you'll like it:D brim