Spoon jiggin

[Danny Lang]

Today went spoon joggin on my home lake, found crappie 50 foot deep caught about 12 crappie and 10 catfish, pretty good half a day.

[Les Young]

That is a nice half day trip Danny.

[Yak Fish]

Congrats on the successful outing. I love to catch 'em on a spoon this time of year. What brand & size were you using? I'm a Hopkins fan.

Jim

[Danny Lang]

Congrats on the successful outing. I love to catch 'em on a spoon this time of year. What brand & size were you using? I'm a Hopkins fan.

Jim

jim I have used all the brand spoons out from the old butter bean spoon, Hopkins, homemade poured, Red Devils, now I use a spoon or what we call a lazer blade we buy at bass pro, looks sorta like a gay blade, in 1/2 oz. Silver and black, and white. I like white better because it looks like a shad.

[Ketchn]

wow that is deep , never hit them that deep before , interesting read and congrats

[Yak Fish]

jim I have used all the brand spoons out from the old butter bean spoon, Hopkins, homemade poured, Red Devils, now I use a spoon or what we call a lazer blade we buy at bass pro, looks sorta like a gay blade, in 1/2 oz. Silver and black, and white. I like white better because it looks like a shad.

Thanks for the reply. I use Sonars, Silver Buddy, Crickets, and Gay Blades too, though not as much as a Hopkins.

Jim

[Danny Lang]

Thanks for the reply. I use Sonars, Silver Buddy, Crickets, and Gay Blades too, though not as much as a Hopkins.

Jim

jim when I lived in Virginia and North Carolina you could buy silver buddies but not here in Georgia. Wish I would of bought me a few. Never heard of a sonars.

[thill]

Aren't all of those blade baits?

I know Silver Buddies, Cicadas, and Sonars are absolutely deadly in deep water. Almost anything will hit those things.

[Yak Fish]

jim when I lived in Virginia and North Carolina you could buy silver buddies but not here in Georgia. Wish I would of bought me a few. Never heard of a sonars.

Sonars are made by Heddon. They also have 3 holes across the top for different actions.

Let me know if you want me to round up some Silver Buddies & send 'em your way. It'd be no trouble.

Jim

[CrappiePappy]

Silver Buddy used to have one with an all white paint job, which I found to be more productive than the unpainted silver version.

My first blade bait was the Gay Blade, then the Silver Buddy, and then the Cicada. I've mostly used them for catching White Bass & Hybrid Stripers. Hopkins Spoons & Kastmasters (w/bucktail) have also been acquired over the years, again for those same species. Never really fished much during Winter, so jigging for Crappie with these baits was not something I ever got around to doing. I considered using them for Crappie when Pushing jigs, but just never got around to it. I have little doubt they'd do a great job with that technique, or even Long Line Trolling, for that matter.