Whole jig for me....
Alright, splain sumpin. When ya'll say Jig-n-minner, are usin' the whole jig (Jig head +Body), or just the jig head?
I'm sure there will be responses both ways, so let me learn sumpin here.
"You ain't holdin' your mouth right! Did ya spit on your hook?"
Grandpa
Whole jig for me....
- LOZcrappie (Scott)
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. --Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)
I use the hole jig and tip it with a minnow, hook the minnow through the lips.
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... it's just a jighead (weedless, of course) and the minnow hooked from under the chin, up between the nostrils. That's for casting/flipping/pitching. For "trolling", I sometimes run the jighead hook into the minner's mouth and out the top of its head. Don't seem to matter, to the fish, that the minner's deader'n a doornail :p .... and the jig will run upright, as long as the minner don't get stiff and curl up. If it does, the jig/minner will spin. I don't use that method enough to worry about it, though, as I'm usually casting, anyway.
My late fishin buddy used to tightline a minnow on a jighead, rather than change to a hook/sinker rig. Caught'em right on, all the same :D
.. cp
A whole jig with minnow is good for dingy water. For clear water, a whole marabou jig with minnow is pretty good when searching for fish. Once you pinpoint the fish in clear water, a plain jighead with a short-shank hook tipped with a crappie minnow can work great.
I knew there would be responses both ways! Keep e'm commin'!
"You ain't holdin' your mouth right! Did ya spit on your hook?"
Grandpa
Whole jig for me and usually the bushy hair type. I call myself creating a larger profile with live action on the tailend.
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