Hung up on stucture and lost tackle

Figure this would be the best place to post this lol. I am with every other guy when it comes to fishing structure brush piles etc. But man have I lost some tackle doing this I have gotten to the point I hate brush piles simply because within seconds of putting a shiner through the limbs im hung up and snap goes the line lol. Anywone know anything to fix this or maybe its just something thats never going ot stop lol. I almost went out and picked up some 20 pound braided line just so when this happens I could just rip it out of there.

I use 10# Power Pro yellow and get my jigs back from the rocks. If need be go to 15# in hi vis yellow and you will lose fewer jigs and the crappie wont care.

Braid and Litewire hooks.

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Use vertical stakes and not brush or anything horizontal. Very few hangups

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Originally Posted by cricket george

I use 10# Power Pro yellow and get my jigs back from the rocks. If need be go to 15# in hi vis yellow and you will lose fewer jigs and the crappie wont care.

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CG- I have trouble finding yellow Power Pro. Where do you normally get yours?

I heat my hooks up on my hot plate. Makes them a bit softer. If I hang up it will straighten out. Take my needle nose and re bend it.

Sounds like the lively minnows are wrapping the line and causing the snag. Heavier line will only disturb the brush pile and fish. If you are going to use minnows and go "IN" brush piles shorten the distance from the sinker (split-shot) to the hook so the minnow can't swim as much and tangle in the brush pile. Now if it is one of the brush piles you have put out then go to a heavier line and tear them up if you want but if it is a brush pile you have stumbled on then be conciderate and don't destroy it, they are not growing there themselves. Ferdi aka Fred

The EASIEST way to avoid snagging brush piles you KNOW are there is to fish at least 400 feet from it. The brush piles help provide cover for young game and panfish as well as other life forms that NEED it to complete their own life cycles and incidently help feed those young fish. I understand everyone only wants to catch barndoor sized slabs 25" long but unfortunately most crappie are not hatched that large; they as juvenilles along with bass and other fish NEED that cover as protection. Going snagless IS an option, personally prefere a bread twist tie wire minus the plastic wrapped 2X around the jig eyelet and sticking up 1/4th" over and past the hook end. OR, if you SERIOUSLY want to reach into the depths of the WORST, thickest nastiest densest tangle begging brush pile there is try this: get 4 or 5 welding rods and carefully and gently tap off the flux coatting on them with a hammer. Drill a hole in each end and file off any sharp edges. Tie your hook/ jig onto the end right next to the end of the rod. They can be used with floats but it takes some adjusting. The welding rod will NOT flex allowing you to haul them on out so long as you keep it off the bottom. Seems dumb until you use it and find out where those big ole gals like to hang out. Do not be surprised to also catch bass, cat and very large bluegills in that mess down there...I have about 5 at any time in my tackle box.

Forgot to mention, after removing the flux hammer the ends flat on steel or cement, then drill them.