Fishing small for big fish...period

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10-04-2017, 08:14 PM
Micropterus salmoides

Fishing small for big fish...period

This will be an ongoing thread.
A personal experiment for me... in my down time from fishing. Won't be fast n furious with my lack of time, but I'd like to have it all one place and maybe someone besides me will get something from it.
I used to fish 3-4 times a week, mostly after work stuff...1-3 hrs max. Got pretty decent at catching supper. Actually got better than decent at it for a while, to a point where my phone rang too much. Met a bunch of fisherman in my area who are great, who I look up to and admire.. and every one fishes a diff way...
When I say a diff. way, I mean jigs....
Single long poling - vertical, vertical pitching, pitching docks....
Ain't too many gon troll in the river and I'm not interested in casting.

I've always fished 1/16 to 1/8 oz heads... diff hook sizes bc I pour and tie my own.
There's lotsa diff techniques for weights, so I'd like to have all that info with me if I'm ever getting skunked.
If I can, I'd like to make comparisons among the jig slash catching at some point. With a growing family it'll be slow, but I think it may be productive.

I'd hope people who tie n fish similar ways in similar water systems would add in....? For fun at least?

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10-04-2017, 10:51 PM
deathb4disco

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. :dono
10-05-2017, 08:50 PM
Bayou Boy

Adam I think you wanting to start a thread about vertical jigging. I am a long poler with a hand full of hand tied jigs working tree tops, stumps, logs, etc.
I'm not into casting and popping a cork. I'm into feeling that tump.
I'm into trying to figure out what kind of wood they on, big wood, top branches, trees.
I just started tying my on jigs and just recently start pouring and painting my own heads
I think this would be a good thread
10-06-2017, 10:17 PM
Fishaholic_Jim

I grew up fishing Truman lake in Missouri where we excel at single pole jigging. We hunt the brushpiles for crappie like rabbit hunters looking to flush out several in each place. Our predominate weapon of choice is a 10-11 ft pole. Mine is a 10 ft Ozark rod which has plenty of backbone but a very sensitive tip. Jig wise it boils down to preference. Kevin Rogers in the Crappie Masters calls this his home lake and he uses mostly 1/4 chartreuse jigs with black/hot pink bodies. I myself usually use 1/16 and color is determined of course by fish preference for the day. Single pole jigging is the purest form of crappie fishing because it's all about the thump.

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10-07-2017, 07:51 AM
STUMP HUNTER

Single pole jigging is about the thump and I have guys that use sizes from 1/24 up to 1/4 oz jigs. I believe fisherman finds that one size jig that works the best for them and it is hard for them to change sizes. If I'm jigging I like to be able to feel the jig and a 1/8 does this for me but will also use a 1/16.
10-07-2017, 09:43 AM
deathb4disco

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fishaholic_Jim

Single pole jigging is the purest form of crappie fishing because it's all about the thump...

Quote:

Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

Single pole jigging is about the thump ...

But is that what he's interested in? I've read the OP a dozen times and still can't tell you what it's about ... or how the thread title relates to the post ... or why this is posted in the Jig Tying forum.

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10-07-2017, 02:52 PM
Ketchn

Yawl flat lost me ....lol
10-08-2017, 07:48 AM
STUMP HUNTER

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

But is that what he's interested in? I've read the OP a dozen times and still can't tell you what it's about ... or how the thread title relates to the post ... or why this is posted in the Jig Tying forum.

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10-08-2017, 10:36 AM
Micropterus salmoides

Ha. A tangent I went off on that went way off the county road!
Basically, I'm gon start tying and trying to fish jigs from 1/32 on down.
Solely jigging with a long pole.
I'll post pics of jigs and catches if they occur. Maybe make some comparisons...
If anyone wants to post pics of jigs they tie and fish in the same way, I'd like to see em. And if they'd like to share stories and or techniques with lighter weight jigs, I'd love to read em.

Any better?

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10-08-2017, 10:41 AM
Fishaholic_Jim

Quote:

Originally Posted by Micropterus salmoides

Ha. A tangent I went off on that went way off the county road!
Basically, I'm gon start tying and trying to fish jigs from 1/32 on down.
Solely jigging with a long pole.
I'll post pics of jigs and catches if they occur. Maybe make some comparisons...
If anyone wants to post pics of jigs they tie and fish in the same way, I'd like to see em. And if they'd like to share stories and or techniques with lighter weight jigs, I'd love to read em.

Any better?

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I use 1/64th jigs for bluegill and I jig from the bank for those.

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10-08-2017, 11:06 AM
deathb4disco

Quote:

Originally Posted by Micropterus salmoides

Ha. A tangent I went off on that went way off the county road!
Basically, I'm gon start tying and trying to fish jigs from 1/32 on down.
Solely jigging with a long pole.
I'll post pics of jigs and catches if they occur. Maybe make some comparisons...
If anyone wants to post pics of jigs they tie and fish in the same way, I'd like to see em. And if they'd like to share stories and or techniques with lighter weight jigs, I'd love to read em.

Any better?

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10-10-2017, 10:27 AM
skiptomylu

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Well in the spring and fall for me all I use are 1/32 Oz Roadrunner and some Pony heads and long line trolling with one rod in hand. All I do every spring is troll until I catch one and note the depth I was in at the time. Then I spend the rest of the day trolling back and forth trying to keep my boat in the depth I caught that first one in. I control my speed to about .4 MPH and max of say .8 MPH. This way the jig never gets very deep, but they will come up to get it. Anytime I ever posted fish pics from spring fishing they were caught this way. I have been doing this since the late 1970's and works for me. I also am sure you could use a 1/48 and do just as well, but a 1/16 probably too heavy for a lot of what I do where I do it, which is usually around and over Hydrilla or around stump fields.

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These I caught off the bank trying out this Popeye 1/32 Oz jig. Just dead stick!
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Trolling...just a few days picks!
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Then couple weeks later!
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10-10-2017, 06:11 PM
robbor

I use a lot of small jigs fishing for everything from largemouth and smallmouth to crappie and catfish.
My go to is a 1/500 oz jig/fly with a really small float from thill usually a mini stealth. Lately I don't go much above
1/32 unless wind n depth dictate. I do a lot of 1/100 and maybe 1/64. Lately I've been using squid to tip my jigs, it lasts a long time.
10-12-2017, 07:33 PM
skeetbum

A few months back I had a bite going that was as good as it gets without a guide to show you how. It started out by jigging a 1/8 and a BGBS body and that worked a little while and as the sun came up the bite changed and the 1/8 didn't produce any more. Not to be the one to give up. I dug around and came up with something close and a slower fall. The bite was back, for a while. Long story short, by the time a few weeks had gone by, I was down to 2lb line, 1/64 jigs and 1 1/4 " bodies. And it was on like donkey kong!! Some of these fish pushed 2lbs and the little jigs had #8 sickle hooks. I used a short cast and let it pendulum down but a lot of those fish were caught just deadsticking the jig straight down and talking with someone close by. Wind was a big factor and sensitive rods and line made all the difference in the world. That light a jig hardly gives any thump at all so you have to be on your game. I used some handties also that fell super slow that made the day on several occasions. I now have 6 ultralight rods set up with 2lb and they will always be in my boat.
10-29-2017, 06:20 PM
Bigskyfisherman

I use all sizes, depending on the season, the type of water, and the fish's preference. In the winter, one of my best rigs has been to use a 1/16 or 1/32 on the bottom, and a 1/80 on the top. The 1/80 gets most of the hits. I would use it by itself, but it takes a long time for the 1/80 to sink to the strike depth. I don't use a dropper loop, rather a longer separate leader tied to the main line with a blood knot. The larger jig will sink to the desired depth faster than the 1/80, leaving the the 1/80 to sink verrrry slowly after the heavier jig has stopped, drawing more strikes. If there is no strike on the drop, I raise the jigs slowly, then drop back quickly.
If that doesn't work, I just swim the jigs. Whenever one thing doesn't work, I'll try another technique and/or another bait or color.
10-29-2017, 06:25 PM
Bigskyfisherman

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Originally Posted by robbor

I use a lot of small jigs fishing for everything from largemouth and smallmouth to crappie and catfish.
My go to is a 1/500 oz jig/fly with a really small float from thill usually a mini stealth. Lately I don't go much above
1/32 unless wind n depth dictate. I do a lot of 1/100 and maybe 1/64. Lately I've been using squid to tip my jigs, it lasts a long time.

That Thill mini shy bite is a super bobber. I use a jig that the bobber just barely fails to keep from sinking. It allows for a super slow drop and draws a LOT of strikes.