Thread: Jigging/Trolling

Originally Posted by MO' MONEY

Those river systems should be a heck of a crappie fishery then!(if the fish survive)

Ya, I think Mr Jim can probably tell ya some stories of fishing the river below Butla.

This question here might be out of left field but I'm gonna ask, when trolling with jigs say 1/16oz with skirt or tipped with minnow do you put a weight on the bottom like you do with a double minnow setup? I know dumb question but I've never trolled with jigs.

Originally Posted by crappiebandit

This question here might be out of left field but I'm gonna ask, when trolling with jigs say 1/16oz with skirt or tipped with minnow do you put a weight on the bottom like you do with a double minnow setup? I know dumb question but I've never trolled with jigs.

we add a weight to the bottom

Thanks mrgoodtime that what I figured.

some put the weight inbetween Capps and Coleman style usually a half ounce......spider rigging is slowtrolling......... longlineing is pulling jigs out the back of the boat without a weight......about 35-45 of line out and you go a little faster than spider rigging.

Originally Posted by MrGoodtime

Because it's fun to watch the single pole guys roll there eyes at me when i go guy them trolling, an i notice alot of them have another pole laying on the deck with the line out....lol

LOL.... Ain't that the truth. I had one hate'n on me the other day pretty bad. He ask me in a kinda arrogant tone ...." Son what you gonna do if you get a fish on 3 of them poles at one time?" I told him... Catch 3 fish while you watch i guess.

Also ... On my long lining adventure the other day.. We was catching fish and someone told us we weren't fishing we was snag'n !! LOL

Originally Posted by Handicrappie

The problem last year was the low water....... Then the pressure applied. Be nice to see lakes shut down in extreme conditions like last year. I'm sure there was an unusually high number of keepers taken out of the lake but again....... Lakes go in cycles and Mother Nature played the biggest role in this cycle last year. Without the extreme low water the unusually high harvest would not have occurred. I fished Butla 1 day last year so add me to the group of folks who took advantage of the conditions.

Good point, Handi. Low water was a problem and fish had nowhere to hide. I fished Butla a good bit last year since we were having trouble finding keepers at Sardis and Enid. Was feeing sorta guilty about all of the limits we took out of there during the low water time until I saw what happened in September. The water came up in late summer and the lake spread out. We started getting quick limits in a couple of hours. Then word got out on internet and you couldn't find a parking place for about 4 weeks. We saw 60-80 boats per day when weather allowed us to fish and most of them were hammering the fish. Doing some quick math says that 20,000 to 25,000 keepers were taken out by first week in October when the bite slowed way down. Conservative estimate: 50 boats per day on average X 1.5 people per boat on average X 10 fish per person X 30 days = 22,500 keepers. As ATM shows, the lake is not fished out but I believe that keepers will be hard to come by after the September pounding. We'll see soon what shape the lake is in.