Thread: Jigs, minnows or both?

Both, prefer a smaller minnow. Use a baby shad monkey milk when I jig.

I'll fish with whatever works.

Though I know of some people who will ONLY use the SAME THING ALL YEAR LONG....




But I'm not naming any names.....

Jigs tipped with minnows 90% of the time. I make my own pony heads and use them on the bottom of my spider rig. Most of the time with plastic and minnow but have found sometimes they just want the head tipped with minnow and no plastic.

Nothing against minnows.....just don't want to go pick them up at a bait store out of my way or pay any more than I already do. I usually only catch 2 or 3 anyway, and it's hard to get a bait shop to sell 2 minnows just sayin'

To me it's not always about catching the most but doing it how you enjoy fishing and what gives you the most pleasure. I'd rather catch one 18" smallmouth bass on a top water bait than 3 on a plastic bait fished in 30 feet of water. I'd rather catch one crappie on a single pole jig rod with a plastic bait than catch 3 on live minnows. Do i use minnows, yes at times, but when Jared sees me walk in Everhardts with a bait bucket he knows i'm really struggling. To each their own.

Use plastics 100% of the time, color varies to lake and conditions. Pour my own baits and heads. Tip with a crappie nibble.

I like Kaz said prefer to use plastic or my own hand tied jigs. There are times when minnows behind a jig can improve the bite. I like to have them on tournament days just in case. With that said I also feel there are times it can hurt the bite. Then you have Richard Bowling who has made his living/career out of a large split shot, gold hook and a minnow. So hard to deny that it does not catch fish day in and day out. I just do not have confidence in fishing a straight minnow. I at least need my Blk/Pink jig in front of it.

Have to say I use minnows more than jigs. Use jigs a lot during the spring, then as a lot of you know by my posts I almost exclusively fish at night with minnows until November. Then I use jigs and minnows at the LOZ. I love slip corking minnows in the boat wells and watching that bobber go under. All around favorite jigs are pan fish assassins, but use tubes, grubs, slab busters, and pogy shads a lot also. I fish Coffman Beach most of the time but when I go to Purvis I only use jigs, its a better jig bite there I think.