The Rez

Put the trolling poles in the shed, got the jig poles out this weekend, found some very nice males and big females mixed in lily pad stems in 3 fow, water temp was running 68 to 69, we were moving along and hit some water that was 71 and bam, it was on, think I may have spoiled my future son in law, he wants to go back this weekend! Attachment 199279Attachment 199280. Had 45 and a special treat, 6 blue gills, yes I will putting them in the grease for supper tonight! Attachment 199281

Good day ole buddy! You got some nice ones there.

Nice!

Nice catch!

Nice crappies and gills.

No better day than family and a jig pole in hand. No matter how many times you go, that thump still awesome.

Nice catch! What day did yall catch those on? I heard Sunday was much better than Saturday.

We were heading that direction when we hit a spot right around the bend from you and picked up 4-5 just bam bam bam. That spot there is gonna be real good the next week or so. CONGRATS

Boy I bet thta sure feels good to get that THUMP!

Good beal GDG

Mac pappy we caught them on a white tube jig with red metal flakes and green head, were tipping with crappie nibbles

Good stuff

Nice catch budro.

White and Green have been my best color combo this spring to. I got Donnie to tie me some 1/16 oz jigs. Char head, white hair with green thread. Fixen to have to order another 30-40 cause we've got hung ALOT this year.

Thanks for the color update. Up til last week cajun cricket and electric chicken had been killing them for me.

Is this the color combo? Or does the green need to be darker?
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Especially the green one. It's been a flat out killer. THANKS Pumpkin

Thanks

GREAT CATCH SAMMY . I THINK RIGHT NOW THEY WILL HIT JUST ABOUT ANY COLOR . JUST GOT TO GO .

yeh Ken and rain all weekend GRRRRRR

That's awesome! Now for my newbie question. How are you using a jig pole? Are you trolling through the stems and slowly working the jig up and down without a cork? Are you going through the stems with the boat or just along the edge? Seems like you would be real close to the fish, how do you not spook them? I have an old telescoping pole in my garage that my dad gave me with no reel, could this be a jig pole?

ALL of the above. LOL Some WAY back in the grass and some in the stems. I personally like to put a pole in each hand with a tiny cork, just enough of a cork that it won;t sink. I can take my eye off it for a second that way and my bait will be in the same spot I left it

Nice going Sammy. Glad yall had a great day on the water!

Braden we were using jigs with no cork, easing thru the stems real slow, swimming the jig between pads, thats where most of the fish came from was when we were swimming the jig, I always fish between visible structure very methodically, that the places that most people pass up just because they cant see em, as for spooking them, just stay off the trolling motor as much as you can and try not to prop wash in front of you where you are going to fish, using 11 foot Sam Heaton jig poles

Here is a pic of the jig we were using, it's a mid south jig, Ken I put 5 in the boat and made my partner change his pink head and orange tube, so color did make a bit of a difference Sunday anyway Attachment 199686

Thanks, very informative. I definitely was not doing anything remotely like that. That's might explain why we did not catch a fish, lol.

Braden, do not try and get too technical in your first try's at this. Like GDG said, use one pole and concentrate on working that one jig.