Thread: crappie rig help

Question for you guys out there 'cause I'll bet all of you know more than me. When making up trolling rigs or even drop shot rigs do you use a snap swivel to connect your jigs or hooks? It'd make it a heck of a lot easier to change jigs,etc if you did but I didn't know if a jig connected to a snap would turn the fish away. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

If you're talking about "pushing" jigs or Spider Rigging ...
I don't think I'd use one of those gold colored snap swivel deals, but "maybe" a duo-lock snap for the hook or jig.

I tie my jig heads on 12-18" leaders, with a loop knot on the opposite end .... then wrap them around a section of pool noodle. My weight is a egg sinker that's on the main line, then a bead, and then a duo-lock snap. All I do is open the snap & slip on a pre-tied leader and jig head, close the snap, slide on whatever color/shape plastic body I want to use ... and I'm good to go.

I don't do enough "long line" trolling to comment (and what little I do, I tie direct to the jig), and if I was going to actually fish a "drop shot" rig like it was meant to be fished ... I'd use the Stand-out Hooks. If I was going to use it like a KY Lake Rig (weight on bottom, with the hook up the line a ways) I'd tie a loop knot for the hook/jig.

I just don't like having any more "hardware" involved than is absolutely necessary. Less stuff to get snagged, tangled up in, and less knots to fail.

... cp