ACT BARNETT

They never did say. Looked like they were spider rigging with a single jig. At the very end of the show the announcer said they were fishing an elementary pattern in 4 feet of water with wax worms. Ronnie Capps mentioned it was hard to bait a hook and be quiet in such shallow water. I assume they were tipping a jig.


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I didn't watch it all. Were they putting them on bare hooks or tipping jigs? My dad used to raise them to sell in his barber shop. Them and red worms for bream fishing

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TIPPING JIGS BLUE/PURPLE

Since I’m fairly new at crappie fishing here’s a dumb question: why do you “tip” a jig if the jig already has a “skirt”? Do the crappie smell what you tip the jig with? Or do you use a bare jig and tip it?


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They were fishing in 4 ft of water, single jig like Thump said and tipping it with a wax worm. Have seen them do that before on Reelfoot.

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Since I’m fairly new at crappie fishing here’s a dumb question: why do you “tip” a jig if the jig already has a “skirt”? Do the crappie smell what you tip the jig with? Or do you use a bare jig and tip it?
YES THEY SMELLAND TASTE IT . YOU TIPA FULL JIG SO THEY WILL HOLD IT IN THERE MOUTH LONG ENOUGH YOU CAN GET A GOOD SET . SOMETIMES YOU DON'T NEED IT BUT ANYTHING THAT WILL HELP I AM GAME FOR . I USE NIBLETS .

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I thought it was bream bait. Never heard of anyone using them crappie fishing.


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I've not used them but some of the guides on Ky Lake have tipped jigs in winter for years with wax worms.


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They were fishing in 4 ft of water, single jig like Thump said and tipping it with a wax worm. Have seen them do that before on Reelfoot.

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Yep


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Capps and Coleman may have single handedly regenerated the wax worm business in Mississippi.

I’ve caught a few crappie with wax worms while bream fishing at Reelfoot. Always considered it a surprise.


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We tipped jigs with wax worms on Butla a few years ago. The water was high and we fished places you can’t normally get to. Flat wore out some slabs with them. They wouldn’t touch the jigs that weren’t tipped


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