...and no minnows are available (just a hypothetical situation). What would your 2nd choice for live bait be (assuming minnows would be your 1st)?
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...and no minnows are available (just a hypothetical situation). What would your 2nd choice for live bait be (assuming minnows would be your 1st)?
If you're talking "live" bait options :
Night time fishing .... I'd net some Brook Silversides
Day fishing .... I'd throw a castnet for Shad (Gizzard or Threadfin)
No nets .... I'd probably use Waxworms on a jig or microspoon
... cp :cool:
Then, I'd use jigs. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by NeonMoon
If you're dead set on using bait, I'd take CP's suggestions. I haven't used minnows for crappie, though, in over thirty years. Jigs are awesome. Thumbs Up
I'm doing as good with jigs as I am minners right now so I'd just go with my jigs if I cant find minners. I like fishing the minners on long poles spider rigging slow. There's just something about catching fish on long poles that I love. I'm still catching as many longlining jigs down around 10'-12' deep though.
you can take a #8 carlisle hook. the one with the long shank and rig it with a piece of crawler that is a bit longer than the hook and it looks kinda like a dark minnow. just thread it on and push the hook through and leave a bit of a tail, so it is rigged straight.
it would be a toss up between night crawlers on a simple hook or wax worms on jigs.
I don't use any other live baits, I would go from minnows to jigs.
Hands down, wax worms on a jig!!! Maybe butter worms, but I've never used or seen them here.
Small jigs & a piece of worm..
Those of you whom advocate using a piece of "worm" on a hook, to catch Crappie .... How do you keep the ever present Bluegill & other sunfish from biting before a Crappie has a chance at it :confused:
Even when using minnows, I'm sometimes battling to keep the minnow alive & kicking long enough for a Crappie to consider eating it ... since the Bluegills/sunfish sometimes think I'm trying to feed THEM Doh Rofl
And I'm not talking about Bluegills/sunfish of any keeper size ... but, those little bait-stealers that can nip a worm off a hook in a couple of quick yanks, or injure/kill or remove a minnow from the hook in a matter of seconds.
I have enough trouble with them yanking on the 'skirt/legs' of my plastic jig bodies ... not only eventually destroying the jig body, but keeping me constantly setting the hook without results !! Adding a piece of worm would seem to only be inviting even more problems from these little critters Doh
... cp :cool:
I've had such a problem with this recently, I've just stopped tipping my jig with bait. My catch rate has not dropped off, so I'm gonna stick with it for awhile. So, for now, I'll be using bait OR a jig -- not bait AND a jig.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiepappy
Being as how we catch way more Bluegills than Crappie, the jig & worm keeps us in fish. If my wife sits for 1/2 hr. with no bites or fish, it's movi'n time. This thread was about "If you didn't have minnows" I always got minnows...Don't hardly ever go without them...Or Leeches.Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
So guys how do you guys fish with jigs only or tipped with minnows, because im not so sure i know how to. (presentation) Thank You Dave
wax worm on a meatgetter jig!!!!!!!!
Would go with SMALL (1-2") leeches hooked thru the sucker. They are fairly tough bait; have often caught 3- 4 fish before putting a "fresh' 1 on. And you might be surprised at how BIG a fish will just INHALE a small leech. My biggest `gill and walleye BOTH were taken on a "glo' #8 ice jig tipped with a small leech. Another GOOD and tough bait are grain worms, but almost no one sells them.
#1 jigs #2 if you have grass shrimp in your area cant beat it