I hook them thru the lips from the bottom up. They stay alive longer that way.
I have a question for those of you who use minnows to catch your slabs.
How do you hook it. My Grandfather taught me to hook it through the lips so that it hangs naturally. I fished with a new neigbor a month or so ago and he said he had only seen one other person hook a minnow that way. He swore by hooking them through the back under the dorsal.
I have spent most of my life fishing.
The rest I have just wasted.
USN -1966-1969 EM3C
New London Sub Base -67-68
USS Coral Sea 68-69
I hook them thru the lips from the bottom up. They stay alive longer that way.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Bill H. PTC USN Ret
Chesapeake, Va
I hook em all sorts of ways, behind dorsal, lips, from below the head up through the top. It just depends on how, and cover I am fishing.
Reaper, Where Fish come to Fry
when I fished them I always went thru the bottom lip. If I was free lining with no weight I would sometimes hook them behind the dorsal fin.
I always either lip-hook them, or skull-hook em (from one eye to the next)
Life is what you make of it...
It depends on how I am fishing them, and how finicky the Crappie are. If I am straight lining them over the side of the boat, or if I am casting them out and slow reeling them in, I will hook them thru the lips, bottom side up. If I am using a bobber or float. I will hook them behind the dorsal fin, and that way they can swim around and attract finicky Crappie. If you hook them in the lips, then they can't swim as natural as hooking them behind the doral fin. The more finicky the Crappie the more natural you want to keep your bait. A live minnow is better than a dead minnow, most of the time, but there are times when it doesn't make a difference. That is when it really gets to be fun.
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in one eye and out the other works for me.
listen with your eyes---its the only way to beleive what you hear...
Hooking them through the eyes is a definate
through the eye if i am trolling and some times when i am using a cork . some times behind the dorsel fin with a cork
retired and now i will always fish
If you're tipping a jig with a minner, does it change your answer?