BnM double minnow rig with artificials??

[FishnFed]

I have some BnM double minnow rigs with 3/4 ounce sinker and #2 hooks on the shelve. I was thinking about tying these on and pushing them with my trolling poles. Is this a common tactic or am I just not thinking right?

Thanks, Wally "FishnFed"

[rickp]

I use these types of rigs consistently to catch limits of crappie top hook jig and minnow, bottom hook just a minnow. Its consist method of crappie here in central Illinois in the summer months fishing 14 to 16 ft deep in the stumps .

[Joey Clark]

I slow troll with a double minnow rig all the time. There has been times I have put a tube jig on the hook and minnow to add some color.

[CrappiePappy]

Fed .... I've considered doing the same. Taking the #2 hooks off and tying on jigs. I just haven't done it, because it's so much cheaper to just rig things up from scratch. Do I think it would work ... yep, don't see why not.

I've considered doing it, not only with the BnM style rig, but with the twin offset metal arms style of double minnow rigs.

... cp

[huntinslabs]

Several do it down here.

[skeetbum]

I have done it as you describe and also with a fairly heavy jig, 1/8 or more, and a 1/32 or even weightless on the other. I did a video on one of these on Youtube called "crappie double rig with wooly bugger". This uses the heavy on the bottom, but I have also put the heavy on and had the lighter 16" back on it's own. Both work good with just jigs and probably better during tough times with a minnow added. Keep us posted on how it works for you, we all teach each other.

[FishnFed]

thanks for the replies fellows. I'll go out before church this Sunday. I'll be in touch.

[Cray]

Fed, that's exactly what they were designed for. Almost everyone in this part of the country uses them or some variation pushing minnows. I tie my own and put snaps on the leaders. Usually run a pony head on bottom and gnat on top both tipped with minnows. Good luck.

[stormcloud]

If I start missing a lot of fish I will use straight minnows but most of the time I have a jig on the bottom hook tipped with a minnow and a gnat on the top hook tipped with a minnow. I don't use a jig on the top hook because the jig will lay against my leader instead of flowing behind it. I sometime use gnats top and bottom to let the minnow have more freedom to move around. I usually troll in the neighborhood of four tenths mph.

[rickp]

Here's a picture of my crappie rigs note the in line spinner right above the top of the rig weight at the bottom is 1/2 oz.