Couldn’t stand it no more

[CrappiePappy]

If only I could find a way to shoot a minnow under a dock. Give those fish something they haven't seen

I'd do it this way :

Run jig hook from under the throat V and out between the nostrils ... if that didn't work, I'd run the hook into the mouth of the minner and out behind the head (& maybe a little to the side of the backbone). Now, in either case the minner isn't going to live all that long, so be sure to have plenty on hand.
I've used both those methods of hooking minners on a jighead before, just for Smallmouth down at Watts Bar in Oct/Nov back in the day and they worked very well & lived for quite a few casts.

I wouldn't even consider using Shiners, as they just seemed to be a bit fragile. But, the Fathead, Creek Chub, or Bluntnose Minnow are fairly stout little critters & should do well.

[Ketchn]

I always thought that myself until I watched some of the minnow fisherman on the docks at Joe Pool tear the heads from the minnows before they hooked them on the jig to fish them. They out caught those who fished live minnows most of the time there.

Of course it could because they were bloody while the live minnows were not. Since I'm too lazy to fish minnows and rely on jigs I can't say for sure why but I can say the dead minnows worked better than the live ones there.

"pinchheads" are stupid deadly on crappie , really popular in lots of spots locally ,will ketch when nothing else will for sure .

[Ketchn]

when I mentor beginners in the fine art of KABOOM , I tell them to bring a dozen large lively shiners ....
then I horrify them folks by pinching them right in half and putting a half on a bare jig and using it as a jig body ....
one fella that asked me to teach him how to ketch crappie a good while back ,still does it that way almost 10 years later
cut in half fresh on a jig is the way to go , they don't swim off into the brush ,AND they leave a real nice scent trail with falling scales .
I actually advised 2 fellas this same way last winter on a lake full of crappie that told me they were not biting using whole shiners.....
they went from no Ketchn to KABOOM just like dat !