Curious as to how most put there minnow on a hook?
For presentation and keeping the minnow alive and active?
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Curious as to how most put there minnow on a hook?
For presentation and keeping the minnow alive and active?
Up through the bottom lip and out the top.
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Yup theysaid
I have tried through the back behind the dorsal fin and through the bottom lip upwards. Both caught fish, but I paralyzed a few minnows when I accidentally clipped their spine. The old timer that taught me to do it through the back said that it let the minnow breathe better. I found out that if you put a minnow in the right spot, hooked either way, he is going to expire from being eaten or beaten to death long before he dies of lack of oxygen.
Papaw taught me to lip hook them if your pulling the minnow and to back hook them if they're mostly sitting still.
A great fisherman showed me that you can run the hook through the lower part of the eye sockets (not thru the eyes themselves). The Minnow stays hooked well and can stay alive for quite a long time.
I have used all the ways mentioned even though the tail and at times some ways worked better. I remember one time we where night fishing and we had only caught a few. I decided to hook one through the tail and pitched it out and let it fall and bang a big fat girl. Tried it again bang and that's how the rest of the night went. So don't be afraid to try hooking them all different ways you never know.
Thru the eye socket, behind the eyeballs on a regular hook. Under the "chin" and out between the nostrils on a jighead.
... cp :kewl
If trolling up through the bottom lip and out the skull. If slip floating, hook them through the tail so they will struggle or through the back so they will be horizontal. JMHO
Welcome from Alabama. Nice post.Quote:
Originally Posted by yakin
I use a piece of plastic grub (or tube) about the size of a nibble with the minnow. (OLD SCHOOL) I put it on the hook after I hook the minnow thru the back of eyes. This keeps the minnow on, especially if you KY rigging or casting out. You can do the same with nibbles, but they are messy and I usually get the nibble slime on my pants zipper or up my nose. No nibbles. Minnow can live a long time hooked thru the back of the eyes. I usually catch several fish off one minnow. That is if I am paying attention instead of BSn.
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Originally Posted by Tony the Tiger
lips .
What Shadboy said
through the eyes
Don't need them. Got plastics that always out fish them.
Brenda says right the opposite.:donoQuote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
My wife loves watching a bobber almost as much as she enjoys pulling cranks. I hook the minnows thru the eye socket when vertical jigging or using a slip cork. If I go to drop-shotting with minnows, I hook from the throat latch up thru the top of the head near the nostrils, same as if I use them on a jig.
Hey Tom, you need to get Miss Brenda to take some video of a time you aren't BS'n. I don't think I've ever seen that.
thru the eyes is the best for me.
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Originally Posted by shadboy
That's the way I do it.
Reggie
Anybody ever tried through the tail?
yes in front of the tail fin so they can swim around almost normalQuote:
Originally Posted by captdave
How can it swim almost normal with a hook in it's butt?Quote:
Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman
:Rofl ... the optimum word is "almost". They struggle to swim, and that struggling gets the fish's attention. You have to be stationary when fishing them hooked that way, otherwise you'll drown them if you pull them along backwards. Well, I don't know if "drown" is the correct term, but they never seemed to live very long when I've tried it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole
You can get the same "struggling to swim" action without hooking them in the tail. You just pinch/clip the tail fins off ... they "wiggle" but have little forward motion.
... cp :kewl
Yes, they will live longer that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by bassadict69
thanks Pappy, yes we fish them under a bobber, sometimes, when fishing off the handicap pier at Patoka. When the bite is slow, we'll try anything to liven it up a little.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy