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    Just curious, how do you guys hook a curly tail jig? Tail same direction as hook or opposite hook?


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    Let the fish tell ya how they want it.have fished it several ways even had one day that I brought it out the side that's just how they wanted it.
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    Tail down

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    I've tried it both way and see no difference in hit ratios. However, back a few years ago, the In'Fisherman ran an article on this very question, on the TV show. They said that with an on/off bottom retrieve, it is better to use the tail down. For a swimming, horizontal retrieve, tail up. I do not recall their reasoning, for what it's worth.
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    usually tail down, but that's just becase I think it is less likely to get on the hook point. Don't know for sure. Really don't think up, down or side ways matters to the fish, be it crappie or green carp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TeeDee View Post
    usually tail down, but that's just becase I think it is less likely to get on the hook point. Don't know for sure. Really don't think up, down or side ways matters to the fish, be it crappie or green carp.
    Which I suppose means if you stick it in its face it might just grab it. lol
    Ive never thought very seriously about that if at all, but I just naturaly think tails are always in the back.
    Ive never tried a curley tail on a Crappie however but I guess I should sometime.
    Ive caught lots of Walleyes on them years ago when the only ones I knew about were Mr. Twister, and maybe that was best.
    I always had the tails pointing up and it worked well for me.
    I guess I never liked the look of dogs walking around with their tails down.
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    A friend of mine , who was new at using artificial baits , was hooking them through the side at the front , then back though the body with a bait holder hook , like live bait . He caught a LM on it that way .
    I showed him the correct way , but who's to argue with success.
    BTW , I've always fished them tail down . Gillchaser

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    I hook em both ways without a noticeable difference. However, I have noticed days where they preferred a minnow either lip hooked, back hooked or tail hooked.
    I can't, I'm fishing.

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