j its been a while but i used to have a lot of success with that metod but i too have little patcience my father in law showed me this method and it works
Ya'll know I don't often fish minnows, but in my never-ending quest
for knowledge, have to ask: Do any of you practice the technique of
fishing a minnow with no weight other than the hook? I have heard
several people talk about it in the past, sounds like it would take a
lot of patience, which is usually in short supply with me and wind
would probably wreak havoc with it, but still sounds interesting to me.
Post by new guy brought this to mind, hear the gears grinding? :D
Shoals Area Crappie Association
j its been a while but i used to have a lot of success with that metod but i too have little patcience my father in law showed me this method and it works
:p keep it wet
take a kid fishing
born to fish
forced to work :p
I do it nightfishing at times when the bite is shallow.. I use shad most of the time though on a #4 hook(red)...works for me... I can't recall doing this during the day...
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." ~Doug Larson
Hey J WHite, you would have been proud of me Saturday at the tournament on Wheeler. My motor broke down and the last 2 hours I fished crankbaits. I had 3 fish when I start, and ended up with 13 by 11:30. Finished 2nd with a motor broken down!!! 300 series in 28 feet. ALl of them were good quality fish, too. I had 4 14" fish. I hooked up even before I could get all my rods rigged with crankbaits. It was like reeling in a wind sock
Shoals Area Crappie Association
Hey, yeah, I read your full post on the AL board - sounds very much
like something I would do! Nice going though, glad you caught a bunch.
As for reeling in the wind sock, I do miss the fight like when I used to
cast and reel on light tackle, got to do what you got to do though.
Big slabs are just suckers for a fast crankbait. It has kind of upset my
notions of hot water = lethargic fish! Also, on the way you got into them,
fishing for me might be described as a series of happy accidents - figuring
out the conditions and variables that led to the "accident" and learning
how to make it happen again - now we gettin somewhere!
Shoals Area Crappie Association
undefinedYEAH IT WORKS, BUT IT TAKES A WHILE TO GET THE MINNOWOriginally Posted by J White
TO THE DEPTH YOU WANT. FISHING WITH NO WEIGHT ALSO
WORKS VERY WELL FOR BLUEGILL. WORMS OR WAX WORMS SINKING
SLOWLY WILL DO THE TRICK. IT TAKES PATIENCE, BUT IS REWARDING.
I caught crappie like this for the first time this weekend. Funny thing is I was trying to catch gar... There was a huge school of gar under a lighted boathouse and I was casting into them pulled out a crappie! I was only using the no weight tactic to more easily let the gar take the bait but ended up catching a few more crappies with this technique.
~Fishin' Magician~
Glad I'm not the only one who has tried to catch gar on purpose :D
My main interest in it was to have some fun with big fish on light tackle-
there are some huge ones in the lower lake at Sardis. Would love to get
my daughter hooked up to one of those big ones on just a bass rod -
Those things are really game fighters. Have caught (snagged) some
big ones while paddlefishing, and been soaking wet by the time I got 'em
subdued at boatside! Jumping, splashing, flopping. Any pointers? I bought
some wire leaders just for this, but haven't got around to trying it much.
Would big shad be the bait? Does it matter if they are live or dead?
Saw one earlier this year at Bay Springs, every bit of 4'+, he was sitting
motionless about a couple of feet deep in 25' of water, with a 6-8" shad
cross-ways in his mouth, just sitting there holding it. Eerie looking! I
wouldn't want to go skinny-dipping around him! Have any of ya'll
ever had this happen: couple of years ago, gar were everywhere, rolling
on top, think maybe spawning? I was pulling in about a 10" crappie, and
one of them made a dive at it - I sped up and got it in the boat, and
laughed at him, too slow ole boy I thought. Then when I was cleaning
fish, found a 10" in the cooler with about 2/3 of his tail clipped off, like
with a pair of scissors - I wonder if he got closer than I thought?
Put me in mind of that old Tom T. Hall song, the one about the fraulein
and the switch-blade knife... Was on one of my re-teaching history
trips with the girls up to Shiloh Park last year, having a picnic at Pittsburgh
landing, and this elderly man who had been fishing walked by and struck
up a conversation, said he caught gar and ate them... I asked how to
clean them, and he said cut off their heads and tails, lay 'em out in the
yard, and "give 'em a good whuppin with an axe handle, till the fish will
fall out of the skin" Made a big impression with the girls, but I'm a little
skeptical? I think they are kind of nasty, caught and released one back
years ago below the dam at Pickwick, handled him, then left, eating a
can of vienna's on the way home, woke up that night "dying" with the
worst stomach cramps ever seen on the face of the earth - wife said
I was alternating between white and green - sweat pouring off of me.
Always blamed it on "gar germs", but it may have been just the viennies-
or a kidney stone or something!
Shoals Area Crappie Association
I have always hear and have caught some by taking a piece of nylon cord and unraveling it and making a lure with it. The gars teeth get entangled in it and you can have a fight on your hands. You have to find out where they are, as with all fish, romping on top of the water and just cast and retrieve, worked for me.
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If you look on the ESPN Outdoors website and do a search for gar you will find a story about gar fishing. The author says he was in a south Arkansas fish market and the gar meat was like a buck a pound more than cat fish. He said in the artical that he ate some and that the meat from a 200 pound gar was as good as any crappie he has ever eaten. I confirmed this with a couple of bow fishermen who have also eaten it and they all agree it is great. What they do to clean them is cut off the head and tail. Then you cut down the spine with a pair of tin snips, pull back the skin and cut out the tenderloin like you would a deer.