What type of jig RETRIEVE?

[Noodle rod]

Of course no crappie ever chases a bait in open water, so never ever cast to them and retrieve it , maybe drag it around behind the boat and let it do the retrieval thing for ya ….

I have watched males leave the nest and race 60' for my jig intended for another fish.

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[Bugtussle]

What type of jig retrieve does everyone use? After a long chat that I recently had with a very nice elderly guy. I asked him a lot of jig questions. I asked him what type of plastics that he used, he mentioned all the normal plastics including plain tube jigs and when I asked him what type of retrieve he used, he said just a steady one, no action at all, no twitching, no start and stop. It got me to thinking how y’all do it.

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Flymoron


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When casting and retrieving, I have found that a slow and steady retrieve works the best by far for me.


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[Alphahawk]

Since around 2008 I have been fishing strictly UL. I have used a 1/64 ounce Trout Magnet for more than 98 percent of my fishing. I have always used the Twitch method. I have done it for so long it now just happens naturally. My lure is shaking all the time. I have caught all the crappie one would care to catch. All that movement has worked very well for me. The TM was designed to be twitched. At age 72 I don’t see myself ever changing. The best method is the one that works for you and puts fish in the boat.

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[ClearCreek]

I taught people way before livescope to drop it in a brushpile and hold it still . With a long rod the jig will never be completely static . I put it in their face with livescope and hold it there . Many times they turn up and move so slow . If you over animate jig presentation (jig up and down) many times it will spook them . Seen times where a jig under a cork gets more bites without moving it . The waves or wind imparts enough on it's own .

Great advice from Nimrod.


ClearCreek

[Eagle 1]

If I am so called jig fishing after using livescope, I do not jig . I may shake it a second but never up and down .(like a couple inches ). When casting road runners or curly tails its a steady slow retrieve. Will alter to rise and fall if they want hit steady retrieve .

[Tom 513]

I cast 1/16th oz jigs, once they hit the water I count the depth down, then slow roll back to the boat, if I'm using a cork ill slow retrieve, rest, pop, rest retrieve and repeat. I will try different depths/counts till I find them.

[Danny Lang]

Very seldom do I ever just cast and retrieve, I do shoot docks though, and I have a sorta danny wiggle to the bait, it just a little action I put on the bait. Most of the time I am livescoping and just drop the jig on their head and wait for the fish to react to it before I make my next move, maybe wind it up a little and see, or just let it down a little. But when I fish treetops with a jig, I put a very small jig on and every once in a while, if I know they are down there and not biting I will twitch it a little bit, not a big twitch, just move the jig about a inch or two, in other words make it look alive, not like it’s going to fly. If you decide to jig your bait make very small movement in your baits at first, then move to more movement, to much is not good. Just my 2 cents.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

No right or wrong way to jig crappie and all methods work sometimes. Personally I fish slow in cold water and speed it up as the water temps warm up.

[Yak Fish]

I usually drift with jigs, so the wind or wave action imparts the only movement, except for action tail jigs, like curl tail or paddle tails. If I'm casting and retrieving, slow & steady always produces more than imparting movement for me.

Jim

[KRW]

Hav caught lots Crappie on Southern Pro twister tail in Tenn Shad. Just reeling real slow