What am I doing wrong

[Jimimac57]

I’m new to crappie fishing. Love it but it don’t love me back. I fish for 2 hours probably get a hundred good hard hits and not one fish in the boat. I set the hook and then a brief hard pull and fish gone.


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[icehouse]

I’m no pro at this game but I would say it’s one of the following
1) setting hook to hard and pulling hook out! Remember, they are called paper mouth for a reason.
2) may be to big of a hook! Size 2 is pushing it.

Just my 2 cents!


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[thaDudeAbides]

What setup are you using? What size hooks or jigs? Smaller jigs can be great but sometimes helps to slightly bend the hook out for a better hook set.

[deathb4disco]

Need more info on how you’re fishing.

[Jimimac57]

12 ft pole 1/32 oz jig that I did bend the hook out slightly. First tried to dress it with nibbles. Just pulling it off no fish. Tried using a small minnow on the jig. Just stealing my minnow. Used a large syringe to put nibbles inside the tube jig. Same thing. Hard hit 1/2 second hard pull off goes the fish. Using live scope drop the jig right in there face and can see them take it tried bigger jigs, different colors nothing works. Mabe not ment to be.


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[LadyBear]

will your hooks stick in your thumb nail? Maybe dull hooks? Sounds like you are doing it right to me.

[scrat]

I think you're fishing in a bunch of small bream / perch and there mouth to small for the bait and hook. Just a guess.

[CrappiePappy]

Are you sure it's Crappie ?? A hard hit & quick pull & gone sounds more like Bluegill to me .... especially when you say the Nibbles & minners are yanked off so easily.

[thaDudeAbides]

Guessing bream as well.

[Jimimac57]

Not sure what they are never caught anything. Sure looked like crappie from other outings experience. But I’m not very experienced in any kind of fishing or live scope especially. Thanks for the reply’s. I hope with you guys helping I will be able to have some good stories that I have read here in these forms.


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