Preaching to the choir

[NIMROD]

Tj Shands - When I say presentation over everything, this...

This is TJ Shands using a piece of plastic bag on a bare jighead on video.
I been saying Crappie not as picky as fishermen . Tommy Ezell has a video catching on ciggerette butts too . I have a photo of one I caught on bare unpainted jighead . Been telling folks presentation not baits is most important in Crappie fishing .

[NIMROD]

Tommy Ezell catching on ciggerette butts

Lake Fork - Cigarette Butt Jig - YouTube

[M R Dux]

I talked to Tommy at length yesterday at Grizzly and Rickie and I went to his seminar. Great guy!

Rickie and I also enjoyed the seminar with Charlie Bunning and Mike Baker. Both great fishermen.

[NIMROD]

I talked to Tommy at length yesterday at Grizzly and Rickie and I went to his seminar. Great guy!

Rickie and I also enjoyed the seminar with Charlie Bunning and Mike Baker. Both great fishermen.

I really want to go but afraid of covid . My friends up that way invited me to stay with them. Sadly their family came down with covid . He is a member on here so pray for my liittle fishing buddy .

[Ketchn]

there was time when we used to use odd things to ketch them .
white plastic bread wrappers and even candy swedish lil fish .
one fella used a pc of mop .
i topped over 300 fish in one day with a white plastic bread wrapper on a hook with a split shot above it because i ran out of jigs on stupid hot bite ....
WAY before one of the folks mentioned was even born I might just add .

[Redge]

Ketchn what was that guys name that took the piece of mop for a jig.
He’s on that other forum down your way.
It’s on the tip of my tongue ya know


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[pab1981]

While I agree the average guy would benefit much more from learning to control the boat well enough to put the jig where it needs to be than worrying about jig/bait selection I don’t agree with generalizations that line/jig choice never matters. I could even possibly be on board with you might be better off to keep moving to new fish that will bite whatever jig you put down or worded another way just chasing aggressive fish versus trying to coax stubborn fish into biting. But I have seen it multiple times on my Livescope, even it dirty water, where I get a jig in close enough to get the target fish to move on the bait but not bite or even spook back to brush. And then quickly switch rods to one with a different bait and catch the same fish. You also don’t have to spend much time on the internet to hear similar accounts from the guys truly at the top of the tournament game. And I am not talking guys pushing a sponsored product or bait. Just real world tournament experience with an individual particular fish.


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[NIMROD]

While I agree the average guy would benefit much more from learning to control the boat well enough to put the jig where it needs to be than worrying about jig/bait selection I don’t agree with generalizations that line/jig choice never matters. I could even possibly be on board with you might be better off to keep moving to new fish that will bite whatever jig you put down or worded another way just chasing aggressive fish versus trying to coax stubborn fish into biting. But I have seen it multiple times on my Livescope, even it dirty water, where I get a jig in close enough to get the target fish to move on the bait but not bite or even spook back to brush. And then quickly switch rods to one with a different bait and catch the same fish. You also don’t have to spend much time on the internet to hear similar accounts from the guys truly at the top of the tournament game. And I am not talking guys pushing a sponsored product or bait. Just real world tournament experience with an individual particular fish.


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Some say that but I have pitched a bait as many as 5 times before they bit . Most refuse a bait just not willing to bite . My time better spent moving on if seeing lots of fish . I had one last year bite several times on same bait . Finally looked at bait and hook had broken off .

[pab1981]

Some say that but I have pitched a bait as many as 5 times before they bit . Most refuse a bait just not willing to bite . My time better spent moving on if seeing lots of fish . I had one last year bite several times on same bait . Finally looked at bait and hook had broken off .

Like I said, I can kind of see moving on to more active fish in most circumstances. But even still how do you explain how many times guys multiple pole fishing see the fish key in on a certain color? It still happens all the time even now, not everyone is Livescoping. I can guarantee you we wouldn’t have won a two day Crappie Masters a few years ago if I followed your theory. At the time, pre-Livescope, we each held a pole in each hand, four baits in the water all the time. The fish continually ignored my partners baits and whatever bait I had on my second rod most of the time. 90 percent of the fish we caught over two days were on the one rod out of the four.


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[trypman1]

NIMROD- I have had the broken hook deal a couple of times.