My Pin Min versions

Boat conversion project on hold for seat platforms so I had to find something to do.

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Note the jig hooks instead of straight hooks on some of the smaller ones. Sometimes they like a horizontal presentation better. Using a jig hook on the pinmin does that easily. I tried this trick many , many moons ago ice fishing. Just this little difference saved me many times ice fishing. If I see a lot of fish on the flasher and no takers I switch to the horizontal ones.

Sometimes it don't make a difference but it does often enough to make sure I have some along. The smaller jigheads with spoons on are not my idea. Someone else on here was using them behind a plug. I liked the idea so much I made some to try for walleye and crappie thru the ice this year.

As Skip and others have told you they do work in open water also. Panfish specialists here in Ohio use them year round. They seldom get skunked on their pinmins.

I make several different types and buy other styles as well. Never seem to have enough of them :confused:

I made a couple of tiny ones and figured out very quickly that they were not for me.Too tiny.lol.Now yours look good.

Slab Stickers for sure!

Looks like your ready! I have never been around enough Ice to fish in and don't think I am going to try that, but it does seem your ready for sure. Only Ice I have had I usually cursed as we had an Ice Storm when I was still living about 100 mile South of here, but still freezing rain turned that place into what looked like a war zone. Hate driving in Ice too.

Good job,
Skip

looking good...

Very nicely done my friend. Those will definitely work at Berlin, West Branch, Mogadore and even Wingfoot. I still do both vertical and horizontal pinmins. They are not just for ice anymore. People use them year round. Great work. Go Browns!

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Originally Posted by azslabber

I made a couple of tiny ones and figured out very quickly that they were not for me.Too tiny.lol.Now yours look good.

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How tiny were you making them?

Have been catching some gills on them here in NWMO. Tipped with a gulp maggot or even a cricket:D Did run across a school of gills working bugs across open water. pitched a pinmin untipped in on them and they fought over it:D

BTW those look real nice

Those look great Hays. Some fine workmanship. I bet they would be killer on the gills.

You don't need ice Skip...pin mins tipped with a meal worm catch big blue gills in August in Mississippi.

Hays, the objective of the spoon is to let it flutter. With the weight of the jighead, you wont get that effect when you vertical jig it. Maybe try it with a very small jighead. I've been spoonfishing for quite a few years and found that with the weight against or to close to the spoon, you dont get the action they're designed to give.