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  • Always use minners

    17 23.61%
  • Depends on circumstances

    38 52.78%
  • Never use minners

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Thread: To minner or not to minner? That is the question.

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    Default To minner or not to minner? That is the question.


    Minnows are a pain in the rear. Now, I have ALWAYS used minnows. Daddy ALWAYS used minnows. Grandfather ALWAYS used minnows. Great Grandfather ALWAYS used minnows.

    I have been thinking about experimenting some, and maybe trying to catch some crappie this fall and coming spring on straight jigs. Just wondering, How many of you gents feel confident enough in your plastics that you would be willing to go to the lake without a bucket of minnows. I know some will, just wondered about how many.

    I know. This topic has been discussed ad nauseum. Just wanting some hard data to go with the opinions......

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    Like you my father , my grand mother , always used live bait. but 5 years ago I have switched to using Gulp Minnows , wax worms and maggots .I will admit that there are days I wish I had a bucket of minnows or crickets, because the only boats coming into the launch with good catch were using live bait. I'm just getting to old to mess with cost, new regulations on minnows for which lakes . and just chasing them around the boat when they escape. Plastics an Gulp sit real still.
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    "Minnow free" for forty years and counting.
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    Quit using minnows about 7 years ago except on the very rare occasion. But am just fine not buying them. But if I was tourney fishing or spiderrigging I would not be without. But I longline and single pole almost exclusively 99.998% of time. But I do use that Bobby Garland Slab Jam stuff and the Johnsons Shad scales stuff.
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    I have tried just about every type of artificial bait(tube,curly-straight tail, crankbait etc.) they are and I have caught some fish with them and I will continue to buy and try them. But as far as being confident in going to catch crappie I elect to take and use my minnows. Been catching fish for years now with minnows and it is a hard habit to quit. Tight lines and good luck with whatever way you like to fish.
    Be safe and good luck fishing

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    Minners are good.

    Link for minner haters.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4YlMMFzc2M
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    Only use minnows when the water is cold, or at night.
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    Jig fisherman my entire life. Women and children use minnows. That's my dad's famous quote. This year my brother and me were having a hard time catching fish so he started buying minnows. Getting bites weren't a problem with jigs but hooking them was for some reason. With minnow we don't miss as many fish. I still jig fish most of the day, but usually catch more on the minnows. Needless to say I am now in the women and children category with my dad but that's okay last weekend in a local tournament he caught three all day and we got 26 and second place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jwilson48 View Post
    Women and children use minnows.

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    Minners gives my wife something to play with when the fish ain't biting ...

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