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    Any of you guys regularly use heavier jigheads,like 1/8oz or heavier?
    Ive always stuck with the lighter heads but kicking around getting some heavies to play with. I normally am either casting a float or just verticle jigging and wondering if they are better suited for slow trolling or what their applicaton is for most of you guys.
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    Just watched a video --guide catching crappie on ken. lake--15 to 17 ft.deep usin 1/4 oz. ---did real well with them --not many small fish but I don,t think they,d show little fish on film
    fished one day with him in Ill [windy 2-4 ft.] caught a bunch on 1/4 oz.
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    MY favorite jighead (besides Todd Miller) is 1/4 oz short shank #1 hook. Grousefly is cooking me up some now.
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    We fish 1/4 oz all the time. Like em , less drift.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DTG View Post
    We fish 1/4 oz all the time. Like em , less drift.
    Don't get in the Trooling motor so much...
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    Yea, we've had fish that wasnt 5 inches long swallow them too.
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    I like using the heavier jigs. A lot of times on a tandem set up I'll use a 3/8's on the bottom with a 1/4 above.
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    i like a heavier jig when vertical jigging. It gets back down to depth faster, I have better feel of the bait and strike especially when it's windy. If I am casting shallow I like a lighter jig because usually I have to reel too fast to keep a heavier jig from dragging bottom. Under a float use the weight that will hold the float upright and pull it down very slightly so it will respond to an upbite.

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    If the wind is up in the spring I will use 1/8 then trolling right beside me and in the summer I almost always use 1/8 or 1/4 around brush piles. For sure 1/4 in the summer if the wind is doing much of anything.

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    Little jigs are too much trouble to git out the mouth. Seems the fishes always swaller it to the gizzard. I guess I could try blowing air up the anus to dislodge the hook (kinda like a blow gun). Read somewhere this works when the air bladder pops out.
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