DO U TITE LINE....Exclusively?

[NIMROD]

My favorite method is vertical jiggin.. I use a 12' buck pole with a 1/8 oz jig for feel. Nothing better than picking apart a brushpile and feeling a slab thump my line. The spiderigging thing ranks real close to using yoyos for me these days. A way to get a mess of fish but takes alot of the fun out of the equasion. Something about that bump makes my heart thump, when the excitment is gone why even fish ?

[randybenham]

I love the thump. I get even more excited when I feel the thump over the bamboo brushpile that I put out. That was the best. It's like you put them there, & then you pulled them up to say hi. I like spider rigging, bobbin, but the thump of the tight line is the best. when you get hung up, you don't lose your jig like you do when you have a bobber. thumbs up for the tite line thump!

[Kman]

Yeah, maybe I called it tite lining and should have called it vertical jigging, my bad. Either way, most of you knew what I was talking about.

No cork, no weight, just a jig, SOMETIMES I tip the jig with a shiner, but keeping just enough line out to get to the depth they are holding and working that jig in their face till they slam it! I still do this in deep water but it requires a reel that will actually reel in a fish. Still fun, just wears out your arm after all day. It is AMAZING to be how much easier it is to hold a light rod like a Heaton in 9ft and one of those $4.99 line holding reels than say a 10ft wally marhsall or Uncle bucks (which I own and have used for many years) and a reel that will reel in fish. The weight difference and sensitivity is unreal.

You guys that fish this way, TRUST me on this one, try a Sams Supersensitive 9ft and that cheap line holding reel and you will thank me later!!!:D You can fish all day without the pole seeming heavy, the ability to feel the bite is unparralled, and it still has enough back bone to flip in the boat. The Uncle Bucks or the Wally never SEEMED too heavy to me either till I tried a Sams a couple years back. Hold them together and you can see.

Hey, just a tip I wanted to pass on to others that like this style of fishing. I in no way sell these rods or have ever met Sam or Wally. I own several of most every crappie rod ever made!:D

Try one!

[ad1974]

I use tightlining(verticle jigging) more than anything other technique,that thump is addictive.

[talltimber]

On a side note, I sometimes do what I call two-pole troll. I have a tiller TM, run it with my left hand, and hold two poles in my right(tite-lining) going real slow. It combines trolling and vertical jigging, which to me is the best of both worlds. You get to feel the thump and can also cover a little water as well. It works good when you have fish in a small area like a stump row or something like that. On brushpiles, of course, I am stationary. You can two-pole troll between brushpiles, or stumps. Try it, you still get the thump, and going slow like that you can cut the TM and fish more thoroughly.
Kman, I'll look into those rods. Thanks for the tip.

[DADAKOTA]

Ya'll are talking about dipping. Short line and dipping around cover. When I vertical jig it is in winter and over 20 feet of water. I prefer to cast and retrieve my jigs through cover. The boys refer to the thump of a bite as a Donk. Nothing quite like working a jig through cover and feeling donk, followed by a hookset. Love to get slack in the line or watching the line jump. HEading for LOZ on Friday for several days. Good luck to all.

[Kman]

talltimber, I do the same thing!! I always called it my drag pole! I have another sams that I take as a back up in case I break a tip or something and just set it out on the opposite side of the boat. Somedays it doesn't catch a thing, other days we might pick up an extra 10 fish on the ol drag pole.

My buddy always seems to catch em on his drag pole more than I do.

I have dubbed him "The Drag Queen"!:D

[joejv4]

talltimber, I do the same thing!! I always called it my drag pole! I have another sams that I take as a back up in case I break a tip or something and just set it out on the opposite side of the boat. Somedays it doesn't catch a thing, other days we might pick up an extra 10 fish on the ol drag pole.

My buddy always seems to catch em on his drag pole more than I do.

I have dubbed him "The Drag Queen"!:D

Drag pole.... That's a good name for the one I hang over the side while I'm casting the other one. When I'm sitting in one spot it just hangs there, but I leave it in the water and drag it when I'm maneuvering around a piece of cover... I like it! Thanks for giving it a name

But I ain't a drag queen! :D

[gillbuster]

I luv tight lining two 9 foot Wally Marshall rods trolling on lowest speed of the trolling motor will go. I use a 1/32 oz jig and tie behind a 9 inches of fishing line with a unweighted fly/jig. Drives the fish absolutley crazy!!!! No thumps here, it's ....BAM! fish on!!!! sometimes two at a time... That's it , I am off to the lake...I can't stand it

[CrappieWhisperer]

My buddy fishes with minnows and I fish with jigs and in between us lieing about who's caught the most we both give each other that look of amazement about how could you have missed that fish, he nearly took your arm off with that thump. I accuse him of feeding the fish and he accuses me of not minding my own business. I felt a different thump not to long ago, it was him hittin me in the back of the head with one of them little minnow eatin slabs he catches.