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I use a lot of bluegills jig in the 1/45 & 1/32 once size with a # 8 or #10 hook. I have noticed that in the summer and winter that bites are missed. These are good bites or bobber pull downs. Setting the hook the rod will load, the fish will be on for a short time and get off. These were nice fish and not dinks according to the rod loading.
Using a underwater camera I solved the mystery and found the Gills were head biting the jigs. :-(
That makes sense...because fish swallow minnows head first to go down their throat properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by RLS40
Interesting.
Cool story. What type of camera were you sing to see the fish hitting the jig head. Was the jig head the same color as the jig body or different?
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Interesting
That solves some mysteries for me as well!
I won't go smaller than a #8 hook and that's only if I tie hair or feather jigs. All soft plastic lures use a #6 or #4. Don't have a problem hooking them.
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I was using a Vexilar camera and the jigs for the most are all one color. I believe the jigs imitate a small minnow or fry.Quote:
Originally Posted by D10
I see that all your jigs have elongated heads, I wonder if that is contributing to your problem.
Similar but not the same. I was fishing a new lake (Smith Lake) for bedding BG with red worms and a small bobber... Constantly the bobber would go down a good ways...set the hook and nothing no rod load at all. We started waiting and watching then set the hook...it was 2 lb spots. They was sucking the rig down by pulling in water and we was setting the hook before they could get their hands on it.
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The heads could be the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Techno2000
Over the years while fishing walleyes with a crawler on a # 8 Lindy rig I would on occasion hook a large Gill. They always hit the crawler in the head as to kill the bait and get hooked. In fact one trip up by Orr all we used to catch some dandy Gills was a whole crawler on a Lindy rig. The dinks would always nip at the tail of the crawler while the big fish would head bite.
Yeah,maybe that explains why some people say they do good with just a plain unpainted jig head.Quote:
Originally Posted by RLS40
bluegills are well known eye peckers yawl , any minner guy will tell you they are a nightmare on live bait.
not sure if its a kill thing but to be for sure sure they love to peck heads on minnow type items .
might just be they like the taste of eyeballs ? I seen a many ketched before on JUST fish eye balls …..
and there you have it …..
KABOOM is the word :highfive
I hand tied some black 1/64 jigs last year and caught a ton of gills.Quote:
Originally Posted by RLS40
I was using the Bobby Garland Jig heads called Itty Bits.
I’m not sure what size the hook is but it’s small but very sturdy and fits completely inside the mouth of the blue gills.
Note - I trimmed the jig hair short so if they grabbed it they got caught. My missed hook sets went wayyy down.
I used both ultra light with a float and long pole no float.
Tie them to mimic a bug Not a minner.
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