Thread: Single pole/vertical jigging??

My wife's dad and mom were from Mississippi and he fished with me all the time and he used to tell me about all the jigging (maybe they called it dipping) that they did in Mississippi. He said they used to catch limits of crappie that way. The only jigging I done for crappie was in the mid-eighties we had 12 foot poles and we weren't catching any crappie trolling one day so we started jigging Hal-Flys around docks. We would get close enough to a dock and we would reach around and under the dock with the long pole and jig it up and down. We caught a limit of crappie that day so we would try it when trolling wasn't working. It wasn't long until we figured out we could shoot docks and fish more efficiently that way and it was more fun. From then on we shot docks and we never jigged that way again. If you jigged around wood structure on Oconee you could be very successful once you figured it out. In the late 70s my whole fishing plan was to pitch to the standing timber from January until May. I just moved shallower as the crappie moved in to bed. I caught a lot of crappie that way and I didn't have any technology. I don't know why I haven't tried that again. Good luck, Wes

caught this 6 12 2016 around the trees in the upper end of the lake
cought this 5 29 2015 in shallow aroun trees in the upper end of lake blackshera

That's how I used to fish in the summer. The first few fish are usually the bigger ones in the tree. Find a dozen so trees and most days you will have close to a limit. I used jigs mostly. The jig has to be tied so the jig is perpendicular to the drop line for best results.

Feel the THUMP!