Walmart bag jigs

I been using a homemade jig made using Walmart sacks . Started out just to prove a point that presentation means more than baits. Been hammering limits with these bait for weeks. People on facebook told me they looked at Walmart but could not find any. :Rofl Take your sack home and make you some .
I just wrap thread around a jig head ( I prefer 1/8 oz, style don't matter. I mostly use unpainted tube jig heads. Some I sprayed lead with paint ), color not real important . Super glue then add the plastic bag. Wrap again with thread and apply more glue. Don't worry if you make the tails too long, just trim them with scissors.
I been dropping this jig on their nose and holding it with livescope . Boat control and presentation is the key. I used tube baits and handties for years but believe colors were to catch fishermen.
I cannot tell any difference in the bite with these over anything I have used to catch Crappie . Proof is in the pudding , catching limits every trip last several weeks . Caught them back in the spring, now in 100 degree temps . I would wager they will be deadly this winter too.

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Catfish and Bass ate it too.:twocents

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Very cool!

Now make some with the blue Walmart sacks green thread and see if they have the same catch rate on a slow day. ( because as we all know some days they hit bare hooks )
Red and white is one of my top 3 colors.


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Originally Posted by GreenLine

Now make some with the blue Walmart sacks green thread and see if they have the same catch rate on a slow day. ( because as we all know some days they hit bare hooks )
Red and white is one of my top 3 colors.


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What you have slow days ?:popcorn Here is some trash jigs I made and all caught fish. Attachment 493027

Sure beats paying $4 each for fancy hand ties!

Well, you certainly can’t beat the materials cost!:Rofl
Bob

You have the presentation gift it takes catching crappie.


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BUT ,most of our Walmart's ONLY have them darn grey bags ,,,,,and as you might have guessed color matters bro :Rofl:Rofl:Rofl

No doubt there's a time when it doesn't matter, but IIRC you're mostly catching whites. We're predominantly black crappie here. When water temps get above 85 here, it's typically clear as well, you really have to dial in what you're using along with presentation. You can't let it sit still in front of them or they lose interest. Going more or less for a reaction bite, on a tiny jig.

That said, we've got some lakes that have healthy whitefish populations, and those things are like piranhas in the summer (well all year), when you get on them. Can usually tell when you get on a white fish on the scope by how aggressive they are.

Once temps get down to 75ish and the water here gets some color back to it, I agree, you can catch blacks and whites on almost anything you put in front of them. The blacks just dont play that game here when its hot and clear lol

FACTS bro .....white crappie are dumb as rocks compared to black crappie and far less aggressive most of the time ......
sides all that, it is my opinion from what I have experienced and what I have read the blacks actually have better eyesight as well

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Originally Posted by happycaster58

Sure beats paying $4 each for fancy hand ties!

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I am not worried about costs . I have more jigs than I will ever use now. Several jig makers send me baits and most are really good. I been making this junk just to prove baits don't have to be pretty . :Rofl

I have preached Presentation skills come first myself for years, thanks for posting. As for Black Crappie which is what we catch most in our Coastal Rivers your colors, profiles, size overall, smells (I still inject the insides of my tubes), make the difference in catching numbers of big Blacks. The little stuff hits most anything if competing with other little stuff wadded together.

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Originally Posted by Rojo

I have preached Presentation skills come first myself for years, thanks for posting. As for Black Crappie which is what we catch most in our Coastal Rivers your colors, profiles, size overall, smells (I still inject the insides of my tubes), make the difference in catching numbers of big Blacks. The little stuff hits most anything if competing with other little stuff wadded together.

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Crappie in my area mostly White Crappie . Seldom see schools . Big ones seem to roam in the open more . Presentation means everything. Most want to bait sitting just above their nose . Seen them run if you jig it at all. No scents or special colors but holding it where they see an easy meal .

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Originally Posted by GreenLine

Now make some with the blue Walmart sacks green thread and see if they have the same catch rate on a slow day. ( because as we all know some days they hit bare hooks )
Red and white is one of my top 3 colors.


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Slow days just don't happen with livescope. Once you find them it is game on.

Tried fishing a drinking water lake with my Walmart sack jigs. People kept telling me, Black Crappie in clear water were more finicky. Well they bit my trash jigs yesterday . Kept 17 and all were Black but one. Also caught a couple Bass on it. A 4 lb Bass will put a bend in a jig pole. Same jig I used last 3 or 4 trips to catch limits of White Crappie with. If you super glue the thread wrap, jigs should work for several trips. Tie you some today and if you have confidence , will work good as anything tied or plastic