I’ve just started I used 1/16 oz jig heads crappie magnet and Danny garland plastic tipped with minnows. Question is any ideal why I have more fish get off right at the top of the water or just before I get the net under them than I catch?
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I’ve just started I used 1/16 oz jig heads crappie magnet and Danny garland plastic tipped with minnows. Question is any ideal why I have more fish get off right at the top of the water or just before I get the net under them than I catch?
Open the gap on your hooks just a little bit.
Possibly poor hook sets? I like to cross their eyeballs when spider rigging. Could be a number of thing's, also you may be to slow on noticing the bite.
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Put plastic inline beads between your first and second eye on the outer ends of your rods. You can hear the tick before you see a light bite.
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Guess I don’t really set the hook just pick the rod up?
Possibly soft action rods &/or not setting the hook "fast enough" or with "authority".Quote:
Originally Posted by no luck
Possibly you're hooking the fish in the lip membrane, rather than the roof of the mouth, and they (or you) are causing slack in the line just long enough for the hook to slip out the hole.
You have to set the hook when rigging. If done properly it should put the hook in the roof of the mouth. They do have soft mouths but shouldn't matter when doing it right. I've flipped many shorts over the boat in my day, but without setting the hook I would have missed many fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by no luck
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My rods are pretty wimpy. I wanted to try before I spent a bunch of money
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If you would elaborate more it would be a great benefit. Rods, reels, boat, tm and trolling speeds etc. I don't neccesarily believe in wimpy rods and you definitely don't need a loan to successfully spider rig or troll in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by no luck
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