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Thread: How do you hook your minnows?

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    Default How do you hook your minnows?


    I've never fished with minnows, so I'm wondering. What size/style hooks do you use. How do you hook your minnows. Through the nose? lip? under dorsal fin? Inquiring fisherman wants to know.
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    where do yall hook small minnows at? that all i can get rite now and not having luck with them living long, hooking them thru the eyes?

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    I hook mine up through the bottom jaw and out one of the lips if I'm fishing them on a jig. If under a float the same way unless I'm fishing near grass then I hook them behind the dorsal fin so they can swim into the grass.

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    through the lips

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    I hook mine through the lips. I was watching a Wally Marshall video and he said he hooks them through the eyes so they can't see a Crappie coming and run from him. Recon that's true????
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    It depends on where and what I am trying to accomplish, and how aggresive the Crappie are. I most of the time hook thru the lips. If the Crappie are pulling them off and not getting hooked I will hook them thru the eyes. If I am using them under a bobber with a weight I will hook them thru the back side of the dorsal fin. If I am fishing grass I will use a bobber and put a weight up the line 2-3 ft and hook them thru the tail so they can swim free style and natural. It all depends on where and what structure you are fishing. EB
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    I suggest using aberdeen hooks and hooking them through the eyes. It makes it more difficult for a fish to steal your minnow since they have to pull the hook through the front of the minnows skull.

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    eyes or lips for me

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    from the bottom of the jaw up through the lips for me.

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    I do it all until I see what is to their liking

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