Quote Originally Posted by T_om View Post
To my long-time fishing buddy and myself, it isn't a matter of cost so much as... why bother? We did extensive testing, and for our way of fishing (pushing jigs) minnow were a complete waste of time. Not just money, time. Time spend messing with the things, buying them, keeping them alive, botherin to use them... an yes, we found out after a LOT of tests that we did as well or better with just jigs alone. We push jigs out in front of the boat(s) (his and mine) at about 1 mph and the fish we get are from reaction strikes. It has nothing to do with "taste". They see the jig and hit it.

Way back in the day, I fished a LOT of crappie out of deadfall tree tops along the banks by dipping minnows. It was the only way I fished them. But we learned about pushing jigs and never looked back. We fish every Wednesday, weather permitting, all year round. And catch fish, summer or winter.

No minnows necessary.

Tom
all depends how u fish if you dont have a boat fishing from the banks then minnows are better as u can cats out a few rods n watch them vs only 1jig rod