Hair Jigs vs. live bait rig
Perhaps I am more inexperienced at late summer patterning than everyone else, but I've stumbled onto a new lake and a killer setup that has me tickled pink every night for the past 2 weeks.
I have been hammering gills of a decent size with a small live bait setup, typically a long shank w/ slip float. Last week I tried a naked hair jig presentation and, to my utter amazement, found hoards of crappies amongst the gills that simply refused to hit any live bait.
I have gone through at least a dozen 1/16 oz hair jigs since last week. Last night I setup on a shelf dropping from 8-9 feet w/ heavy weeds off to 12-14 feet with sparse weed cover. I could see crappies darting up from the depths to molest my hair jigs. The action was so furious I wanted to bring it to the forum because:
A) I have always been a live bait/tipped-jig sorta fella, and this approach is a new style for me.
and
B) I wanted to know if anyone else is having issues patterning the crappies this time of year.
/Back to work :)
