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Have'nt been catching anything on any color jigs lately.Spinnerbaits yes,live worms yes.Figured maybe it was a color thing.So,I'm gonna try black and white.Heck,I have never tried it,maybe it will be my ticket.This is a 1/16 with white kip.Keeping my fingers crossed.Maybe it being 110 degrees might have something to do with it,lol.
Hopefully you'll get them to bite. Yep the weather will slow them down for sure.
I tried using jigs the other day and couldn't get a bite. I tried pulling crankbaits and that seemed to be what the crappie wanted. My son in law and I caught 10 nice ones in the next couple of hours.
Good jig, hang in there with em. This hot weather has got to give a little.
I know 110 degrees will definitely slow me down and keep me off the water. :D:D It has been 95+ here in Alabama for the past four weeks. When I go fishing I leave out about 3:30 a.m. so I can be at Weiss Lake or Guntersville by 5:30 a..m. and fishing. At 8:30 it is time to head home with 15-20 crappies and shellcrackers for me. I do not night fish because I can't see at night well enough to drive. Otherwise I just wait for an overcast or much cooler day and go then. It is nice to be retired and the children are all on their own in different states. The wife and I can travel whenever we want or fish when the time is available. (She reads, I fish.) The fish are about 17 foot deep now so I try to find banks near bridges or channels with a steep drop off. Take care my friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by azslabber
I tried again this morning.Too dang hot.It was pretty nice at 4:30 am,lol.Then the water skiers came.Heck with it.Maybe Saturday night until very early Sunday morning.I'm just going to make bugs.Well try to.Here's a 1/64 I'm just going to sit in the AC and practice.Can't see how you guys do it.
Looks like something I swatted last night! Good jig.
If you put that in the water a big ol bluegill will try to steal it!!
Easy PRACTICE!!!!!!! That 1/64 oz jig head is HUGH compared to a size 24 down to 32 fly tying hook. All just a matter of proportion, the smaller you go the less material you use.
Fatman
1/24 or 1/32 are only in ounces in this guys repatoir,lol.
AZ, did you try going smaller or larger? When it gets warm here, above 80 for a week, it always works best to go small mid day and big at sunrise and sunset. If the fish were jumping or surfacing a lot try to find a hatch and match it, even with jigs could work well. A 1/100 sparcly tied leech might just do the trick. Light olive and light gray also seem to work better when it gets "hot" here. I know it is nothing like down there but who knows.
The trout in the lake I went to yesterday were feeding on some kind of gnat, about the size of long grain rice. That is not a fun fly to tie. But I am going to have to do it because the fish were feeding all day long on them and I know I would have slayed them on a fly rod or casting bobber using a size 24 or 30 gnats or elk hair caddis. Getting 8 strands of elk hair on a #24 hook is a TON of FUN, not.