Thread: Jig under a cork for shallow water...

Ive not tried this but I certainly intend doing so.
I don't feel I have quite (the touch) with jigs as others do that ive fished with.
I think some just naturally have it better than others, and this method might help.
Ive been told also that jigs will always out fish minnows, to the point of never having them on the boat.
But ive found thats not always true in my case, so ill try this with those also.

Originally Posted by Damion Kidd

Thanks for the info. Im fairly new to crappie fishing and still trying to find what works best for me.i have trouble detecting bites in cold weather and deep water.may try and see if this helps.

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4 pound test high viz line and a sensitive rod is helpful in indicating light bites. Sometimes it is just a light twitch of your end eye of the sensitive rod or other times it may just be seeing your line easing off in a direction or just movement. I lift up and they are there. Watch my rod tip and line, especially when the light bite is on

Tried it yesterday and learned something about slip bobbers: you need a bobber stop, split shot, or swivel between jig/bait and bobber so that when you get a snag and break off your jig, the bobber stays on the line, and you don't have to paddle over there and get it. Well, unless you snag the swivel, etc, anyway.

Originally Posted by chippo

4 pound test high viz line and a sensitive rod is helpful in indicating light bites. Sometimes it is just a light twitch of your end eye of the sensitive rod or other times it may just be seeing your line easing off in a direction or just movement. I lift up and they are there. Watch my rod tip and line, especially when the light bite is on

Im quite familiar with the what to do and watch for, and I do. But there are times when other rods in a rod holder with a hook and minnow out fishes me, and that aint supposed to happen. lol

Originally Posted by yobuck

Im quite familiar with the what to do and watch for, and I do. But there are times when other rods in a rod holder with a hook and minnow out fishes me, and that aint supposed to happen. lol

Whatever advantage minnows might provide is trumped by the sheer convenience of jigs.

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

Whatever advantage minnows might provide is trumped by the sheer convenience of jigs.

I can't convince my wife, so minners for dinner.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I can't convince my wife, so minners for dinner.

Happy wife, happy life.

This method is deadly when fishing the spawn along a rip rap bank. I like the Trout Magnet floats because they are the smallest floats I can find that can be used as slip floats. I rig them with a 1/24 jig head and this combo works great. At my local lake the spawning crappie are never more than 6ft from the bank. A old timer taught me to not cast toward the bank but to cast parallel to the bank to keep you bait in the strike zone much longer. I can't wait for spring to get here.