Roadrunners vs. other jigs...

[Bushrod]

...was just wondering, how would ya'll rate the various roadrunner jigs with attached spinners versus the regular curly-tail or maribou jigs as far as effectiveness? I just bought a handfull on sale at BPS and am gonna give 'em a try soon....any variation in presentation required? I've heard they're great for vertical jigging....

Bushrod

[Litebite]

Of all the jigs I have tried I favor the Roadrunner over them all....I only started using jigs after I read the posts of other members success with them and like everyone else I run to the store to purchase something new to try just because I want to master the use of such.......But after much dissapointment of trying to use jigs I always go back to the lovely minnow. The only jig that I could get a crappie to bite without a minnow tipped on it is a Roadrunner.....And I mean that the crappie would actually nail it!...My favorite color is red and chartreuse thunder body on a white head...I just fish them slow and easy.

[TapOut64]

I buy the Bass Pro Shops equivalent. Don't really notice a difference between the two.

[L.A. stumpjumper]

The roadrunner is my go to bait all the time until the water temp dips below 58 degrees. But I cast and retreive not vertical jigging. That little spinner seems to attrack the crappie.

[GRIZZ]

Thats because they are the same thing. I've purchased the BPS version that had the RR blades on them. I just wish they had more colors. They only have Chart. white and red heads in bulk. They need a green head and black in bulk too. Black RR's are killers.

[Wiskers]

The roadrunner is my go to bait all the time until the water temp dips below 58 degrees. But I cast and retreive not vertical jigging. That little spinner seems to attrack the crappie.

I've been casting 1/16 oz Roadrunners with a 1 & 1/2 inch curley tail and catching fish 17' deep in 46 degree water here on Ky. Lake. Just have to reel real, real slooooooow. :D

[willsjwills]

they work real good on Tenn-Tom all year long. We use'em around logs and stumps. good for locating fish, too.

[wrwest]

I have used jigs and roadrunners, they both work for me. I change the to grub bodies on the R/R and started picking up a few more fish. The local store are really limited on there fishin stuff so I have to order out of BPS and Cabelas. Between the two catalogs I have gotten a good selection,

[LOZcrappie]

I like them for casting along docks and structure but not so much for vertical jigging. I don't know -- just seems to me that the spinner works better on more of a horizontal (casting) retrieve as opposed to a vertical retrieve. Black and chartreuse crappie thunder is my favorite at LOZ. Good luck.

[CrappiePappy]

...was just wondering, how would ya'll rate the various roadrunner jigs with attached spinners versus the regular curly-tail or maribou jigs as far as effectiveness? I just bought a handfull on sale at BPS and am gonna give 'em a try soon....any variation in presentation required? I've heard they're great for vertical jigging....

Bushrod

The only people I've ever "seen" catch Crappie, vertical jigging a Roadrunner .... was Jimmy Houston (on TV) and Ken "Killer" Palmer (on Watts Bar) :D
Myself, I've used them for over 30yrs .... and they have served me well. So well, in fact, that I had Oregon Slabman make me some of his "custom made" ones ... in two colors that are no longer available (Peacock, and solid Pink).

Here's a "younger" Pappy ... after a cold, rainy early April day on KY Lake ... after throwing a 1/16oz solid Chartreuse Roadrunner (partner also throwing same):



Also had the pleasure of boating limits of 1.5lb-2lb Crappie, two days in a row, while fishing Barkley Lake (many years ago) ... while throwing a solid Pink 1/32oz RR (sorry, no pics taken on that trip).
Had a trip to Green River Lake, Ky .... where I trolled 'em and cast'em ... with the results being large numbers of 2lb Crappie. Even got into some keeper (15") Walleyes with them, on another trip there ... bringing home 6 keepers out of the 8 fish boated (partner & myself)

ANYTIME I go Crappie fishing ..... whatever number of poles I have with me ... and regardless of which lake I go to --- ONE of those poles has a Roadrunner on it
I've caught many species of fish, throwing Roadrunners ... Bass, Muskie, Walleye, Crappie, Catfish, Freshwater Drum, Hybrid Stripers, and a variety of Sunfish species :D And the majority of these were caught simply by casting and retrieving at a slow to moderate retrieve rate. And the only ones I've used, so far, are the Marabou style. I do have several bulk packs of "heads", that I'm gonna use with various "plastics" ... this upcoming season, just to see if they work as well as the "feathered" versions :p ......... luck2ya ... cp