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I am curious to know if folks tip their small 1/32 ounce size jigs - like the ones skiptomylou shows in his post below?
It seems to me they should catch crappies without adding a minnow or maggot or any thing else.
Do most folks fish these kinds of jigs as they come dressed with the hair and tinsel or do you still tip them with something?
Thank you.
I apologize - I thought I was posting this on the general discussion forum but see that I erred and put it on the structure forum.
Sorry - still would be interested in the answer though.
If they give me good service I tip them 15%...if they give exceptional service I'll go as high as 20%:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lynda Jean
First of all welcome to crappie.com I think you will find a bunch of useful tips on the forum. Unfortunately in your case the first "tip" was just funny.
Also funny is the fact that just tonight I to got some jigs from Skip. The first thing I thought was how purty they will be tipped with a rosey red. All in all I wouldnt be caught dead on the water without some minnows just in case thats all they are hitting. Not to mention they stay alive along time in this weather so they can make multipal trips if you dont use them all.
Keep us posted on your success.
your using hair jigs I would guess, right.
I'd try something like berkley earthworm and put 3/4" - 1" piece on the hook.
Hook it close to one side so the piece sticks out and dangles.
The berkley earthworm puts scent in the water and makes them hold onto the jig longer.
Just my .02 cents. ;)
From May - July we do not tip any of our jugs up here because I just have not found it necessary. The rest of the year we tip with live minnows, spikes, and waxworms, or several of the Berkley soft plastics.
With the exception of early spring, we always tip ours with Berkley Crappie Nibbles.
I would second the crappie nibbles. I just started using them this fall...and now I tip my jigs with them every time out. Crappie really like them as do bluegill. Ive also accidentally caught largemouth and yellow bass. In the spring im quite sure you could catch bluegill off the bed with a nibble on a bare hook and not have to buy a single cricket or nightcrawler. They are a great little item to have in the tackle box.
You can indeed catch bedding blue gills with nibbles -- one year after driving 1 hr. to lake ,the bait shop was closed so we went with nibbles only and caught as many BG as we wanted
Tied it several times since --works very well --don.t know how it would work the rest of the year :confused:
Heres a great tip and your nibbles last a long time and they put out as much scent as they would stuck through the hook. You need to have a hollow tube jig with a wide diameter but I take the nibblet or even 2 and stuff them in the tube they work great and your niblets last alot longer..but the tube has to be wide I cant get them to go up into a 1.5 inch jig so i use 2 inch and the crappie bite good on them.
Crappie nibbles have helped add a few fish to my bucket on several occasions also.
Ditto , ditto , and ditto...I've used white crappie nibbles for 2 or 3 years now and would not be on the water without them , as i have caught far more crappie with them than without. I've experimented several times and always tip them now.
A way to make the nibbles stay on the hook longer:
Take a shoe box lid and pour the entire bottle out on the lid and pull all nibbles apart that are sticking together. Spread them out and leave them out all night before you go fishing. They will dry out just enough to stay on the hook longer. It will make a bottle go a lot farther.
Here's another vote for Nibbles, Usually, it's best to sort of let your nibbles 'dry out' before you use them. They tend to stay on the hook better if they have dried out some.
We almost always tip our jigs with either Berkley Crappie Nibbles or minnows. If you are trying to put the Crappie Nibbles inside of your tube jigs I would suggest that you do what I did and order The Bait Pump from Slabhunter. This pump will deliver the pressure needed to inject the Crappie Nibbles into the tube jig.
I know what you are already thinking! Hey wouldn't a turkey injector work? It won't even come close...Been there, done that!!!
Here's a pic of the first crappie that I caught after recieving my Bait Pump. I caught this slab at 12 feet deep and still had plenty of Nibbles injected into my jig to continue fishing!
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...7-9-06slab.jpg
I use the bait pump to get my nibbles in the tube jigs,it works great.
www.thebaitpump.com great people producing a great product.
i don't use minnows in the spring time because you don't have time. now on over in the year i use a bass assissin grub or i call it a yum yum. you can do as much with the yum yum as a minnow in my way of fishing