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Since I don't use minnows I don't know what "average" price per dozen is . Can someone help me out so I can compare, whether it is cheaper to use jigs or minnows? I have been fishing last week and this week and see lots of folks fishing minnows while I long line troll jigs. Granted I spend lots of money on jigs, so my wife says (she is probably right). I know price is gonna vary from what part of NC you are from, so just to help I am from piedmont area. Thanks for any replies in advance.
It really does depend on where you buy them! I've saw them as cheap as $1.25 per dozen to $1.99 per dozen. Some places give a price break on certain amounts of minnows like Hill's has 3 dozen for $3.50.
If you can buy them by weight they are much cheaper. Some stores won't sell less than 1/2 pound but they are about 30% cheaper here if you buy them by weight. Seems to me they are around $1.00 a dozen or less when I get 1/2 lb.
Oh my,makes me wonder too.Just how many fish you can catch on the average per. jig.vs. each minnow.
That debate is ongoing with no clear answer likely. Some days one, some days the other, sometimes both together.Quote:
Originally Posted by swamprat
Just tell her in a nice way how much it cost to troll for Marlin with a 300K boat
I know how to stir the pot. He He He
If it was about cost, I'd buy my fish from the store. I would use whatever works regardless of cost.
Minnows now cost 2.99 a dozen at Falls lake on rt 98. {Two gas stations). They have lost my business.
Tell her if she'd have left that last pair of shoes at the store this would never have came up.
OK, joking aside. The up front cost is going to be more with jigs but you catch fish with the jig until you lose it or it tears up. With minnows start up is fairly cheap but you will not average 1 fish for every minnow bought, more so when you get into a school of those nasty 4-6'' white perch.
With jigs you can change the size according to what the fish want, minnows don't appreciate that too much. Minnows have other cost associated with them like bait buckets and aerators.
Hey Red. I got them for 1.99 at the station near upper barton ramp last week. Have they gone up since then?
Lol maybe that's what it was! Still 2 bucks a dozen!
We have used jigs for years and it can run into some money if you don't check around before you buy. I buy most my grubs on line now you can get a better deal but I only buy what I know works good for me. the jig heads is where you will spend the money I have found that I come out better buyin weedless jigs with a good weed guard on them (NOT EASY TO FIND)!!!
There's a fish stocking pond down here in Pender County on US 421 that sales minnows by the lb. It's $13 if I remember correctly. That'll buy you 250-350 minnows. About as cheap as you can go live bait fishing,IMO.
What's chief got to say about this.
Not as much as it cost for them to get their cut and colored.
Back during the Winter we were buying 14-18 dozen minnows per trip. I can buy a whole lot of jigs for that price. The only problem is I can't get the crappie to bite as consistently in cold weather on jigs. This time of year I am 100% jigs.
cant believe you would ever switch to minners/ i usually can catch 10 or 12 fish on same jig. cant say that for a minner.then you lose dozen or more minnows. gotta buy dern bucket and a net. corks, just not worth it when fish are bitin. minners work better in the winter months for me, but if your name is chief it dont matter
Never said I was gonna switch to minnows. I guess the real purpose of this thread was to see how much people were paying for minnows vs what I pay for jigs. I fish exclusively with jigs and have since I gave up night fishing with minnows. Back in Ga where I am from I fished year round with jigs, long line trolling and did pretty good year round. Not to say got a limit everytime but rarely was I skunked. I agree enoman, you catch way more fish 1 jig vs.1 minnow. Thanks for all the replies guys.
Grant
Chief can't respond without coming out that he is a closet minnow man.Quote:
Originally Posted by newly
Turkeyfoot, where is Hills? Flatfoot
On Bringle Ferry Road about 2 miles from Tamarac Marina on High Rock Lake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flatfoot
Hills is where we get our at when we go to High Rock they had some red ones a few weeks ago when we went we got some of them man the crappie loved them. Hill's is the best place around there to get minnows at. Those girls at Tamarac like to count them out with their hands I don't like that I don't even put my own hands on them till I use them. No telling how much lotion they have on their hands. I never saw many women that don't keep it on their hands all the time.
Thanks, Turkeyfoot. I was hoping Hill's was near Wake Co. BTW, the bait shops on RT. 98 still have crappie minnows at $1.99. Maybe the fella who thought they were $2.99 was buying bass minnows. Flatfoot.