Jig fishing

How many of you jig fish only ? I used to minnow fish and caught lot's of fish that way , but when switched to jig fishing the size of the fish was so much better and alot more. just wondering who jig fishing only?

I switched from strictly minners at night to jigs during the daytime and havent looked back.:)

Were we fish our home waters (greers ferry),norfork,bull shoals,(white river) it is hard to get minnow's and when you buy minnows if you buy a dozen you get 12-13 is a dozen in minnows!!They usually die before we get them to the lake!! They are usually to big also!! Back when we sold minnows if you bought a dozen minnows you got at least no less than 3 dozen!! Can buy them by the pound but no where to keep them!! So we make our own jig's!! We fish clear water and most crappie lures are made for dingy type lakes so we make our own colors and jigheads!!

You can catch a lot of fish off one jig before you have to change

I am trying to learn this jig thing.

Guilty......only Jigs

Haven't fished a minnow since the Carter Administration. :biggrin

I use jigs 90% of the time and tip them maybe 20% of the time. In deep water in the winter a #2 hook and a minnow is hard to top.

It depends on what I'm doing and what time a year for me. Winter time I fish minnows on everything but come March and April I don't buy minnows very often. Some days they really like that meat IMO

JIGS ONLY,FALL,WINTER ,SPRING AND SUMMER,ALL OTHER TIMES AND MIKE WOULD CONSIDER SOMETHING ELSE

Jigs only, for the last 5 or 6 years.

Fished jigs many years ago then went to minnows casting over brush and ledges and stumps. I fished lots of places over the world while in the military. Hair tied and curly, forked tail and now cutbaits jigs at night. I have my own hair tied jigs and my brother makes curly tail jigs. I rather fish minnows over brush but if Jigs is all I have then so be it. It's 50/50 for me. I found it's harder to go back to jigs if you fished minnows first. Jigs at night like cutbait does is a real challenge if you haven't fished jigs in a while. It's a slower reel and it's fast when they hit. It will make you cuss:banghead a bit more. LOL :highfive

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Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

I use jigs 90% of the time and tip them maybe 20% of the time. In deep water in the winter a #2 hook and a minnow is hard to top.

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Road runner with a minner is good too in the winter time!