Have you ever bought jigs that would not catch a fish ? I took a bet that I could catch crappie on a 4 inch piece of red yarn . Doubled and tied it was about 1. 75 long . Took 5 minutes to catch one .
Printable View
Have you ever bought jigs that would not catch a fish ? I took a bet that I could catch crappie on a 4 inch piece of red yarn . Doubled and tied it was about 1. 75 long . Took 5 minutes to catch one .
:popcorn. This may get interesting
Depends on the bite of course..
I’ve caught quite a few on a bare jig head and a bare hook when I threw it in the water looking for a new jig body.
I made a jig using a old piece of black trot line. The red ear love it.
Sent from my iPhone using Crappie.com
Fishing is like Golf, it's not the equipment.........................Quote:
Originally Posted by Eagle 1
When I was a kid, I caught a 1 lb bass on an opened bare snap swivel!
I guess I have, usually ends up in the bottom of some box for years. By then it’s fodder for the trash man.
Probably no such thing as a bad jig. Only a bad time to use them
My dad once picked up an old torn up split up faded out milky looking Bobby Garland that someone threw out at the boat ramp and hooked it up and fished with it for a while before finally giving it up. Said he was catching free fish that day. :biggrin
Dang, I was hoping to spend my way into catching fish! Working at it hasn't helped much.:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
As a matter of fact I have. Last time I went out I tied on a new jig and missed about 5 bites in a row. Took a closer look and the hook had broken off. I never got hung up or anything but it broke off about where the barb should be.
All you guys bragging that you can catch a crappie on anything, I've got a challenge for you!
Best I can do on that challenge is .... I've caught Crappie on a jig with a blunt hook point before. :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by bigdoug03
I’ve seen fish caught on a little of nothing. A Popeye looking jig with three strands of kiptail left on it. Bass are really dumb, they’ll hit anything? Caught one about two pounds on a inch and a quarter inch piece of a plastic worm, absolutely no movement except the retrieve speed.
Did not know you can catch them on yarn, time to go to BPS ( Belly button Pro Shop ) :yikes :Rofl
Years ago, my dad and I were salmon fishing, floating salmon eggs and live sand shrimp under bobbers. We ran out of shrimp so dad pulls a foam ear plug out of his tacklebox and says he'll hook one on it. He soaked it in the water/juice from the shrimp box, casts out and BAM bobber down. Dang I miss fishing with him. If the fish were there he'd find a way to make them bite.
That would be hard to spot unless you were looking for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigdoug03
Just got to put one of those Ketchn hooksets on itQuote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
We’re you fishing with anyone? Buddy was doing better then me at the dock and getting a little to Braggy about it so first time he put his pole down to go get a coffee I snipped the barb off his hook. He missed 4 or 5 fish which I said was the result of a weak hook set before he figured it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigdoug03
Sent from my iPhone using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app
it was on fire and i was ripping one day and then it started to be a lose lots of them thing , sure enough it seemed somehow the hook broke at that exact spot , but it also was a situation where about 1/3 of the fish that hit it still got landed , just saying :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by bigdoug03
my bud and I once took up a challenge to ketch crappie on "lil fisheez " right out of the bag from Sweden , went quite well actually ....:Rofl
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishnwiz
Brutal. Sounds like some shenanigans I get into:biggrin
In February of '72 (I was 11), my buddy & I caught crappie beside the the dock we were fishing off of with jigs we made with a streamer hook that we'd crimped a split shot just behind the eye and added a 1" long strip of bologna in the bend of the hook. Just dragging it slowly about a foot off the bottom did the trick. He sacrificed his sandwich for the greater good. We couldn't catch anything with my PB&J.
Jim
No such thing as a bad jig as long as it has a good sharp hook . Crappie use their mouths to test things as they have no hands , Tiny brains and just feed by sight . If it looks like possible meal they suck it in but can easily spit it out . I have proved more than once you can catch them with bare unpainted jig heads . Many fishermen swear by colors or baits and switch several times till they catch . My theory is they must be presented a bait they can see and right presentation . Many times if one fails to move I put a bait on them as many as a dozen times . Not even changing baits but using same one . Last week I took fancy seats ( Scott ) livescoping where some fish took over 10 tries in muddy water to react to a 2.5'' orange/chartreuse glow tube .Quote:
Originally Posted by Eagle 1
Attachment 425579
Attachment 425580