Thread: PANFISH MAGNET KIT

Cast, count down, swim back slowly.

I have had good luck with 3 ways. Under float tipped.

Cast n reel slowly with lots of pauses.

Or a good way in slightly deeper water like 8-15ft if pendulum. Know where they are cast past them. Keep rod tip high. Hold finger on line n let the lure pendulum back toward you. Without any other movement.
Basically glide it.

I fished by a couple of old timers who were spider rigging with the crappie magnets and flat wearing them out. Just a 1/8 oz head, a magnet, and a crappie nibble. No other weight or minnows.


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In caught 5 crappie yesterday on the panfish in purple.
They was fussy n wanted small n non agressive.

Just received my Panfish Magnet kit. Ordered directly from the manufacturer. Very quick order processing and shipping. Will be giving them a try tomorrow. Going to fish them under a bobber.

Trout Magnet in Bison color

One of my favorite designs! If pearl white or white was the only color made, I could do well on any water and for more species than just crappie.
My advice - go light when it comes to jig heads - 1/32, 1/16 or 1/24 oz. unpainted ball head jigs. The thin linear designs allow the most finesse action when twitched on the horizontal retrieve along with glide using slight rod tip pulls or 1/4 reel handle turns. Slow is key !!!

My advice is to use jig heads of the weights mentioned making sure the hook size in #4 (or #6 of you make those sticks shorter - a great modification when fish are a little finicky; BTW #6 is a smaller hook than #4 or #8).Note: (Nothing against curl tails or shad tails, but my catch rate has gone way up! )I used my own hand pour slim sticks yesterday and caught over 40 crappies, a dozen bass, many sunfish and one large perch. They freakn' nailed them! I used the stub tail, spoon minnow and cone tail designs pictured, all day, and only lost one to a pickerel.

To continue, too long a hook when using straight bodies kills the action and you always want more wobble for the buck. Forget painted jig heads. You want as little distraction from a good soft plastic design as possible as well as the fact that painted heads add nothing to their appeal.

Also, if you own finesse worms (pictured), you get the same action once you use the last 1.5" cut off the worm. The ribbed worm you show is pretty much a Mr Twister curl tail worm with the curl tail and last section cut off and rigged on a jig.

Oh yea, I forgot : another tip I find very important to finesse action lures: even if you have #8 test or greater line, always use a 6# test leader of about a foot or so. I use fluorocarbon at the end of braid or mono, but mono leaders are fine. If you only use 6#test, forget the leader.

It's not that fish are line shy (a fish tale), but that the increase in action of very light lures is significantly greater along with strike detection when using light line. With a smaller diameter leader, you can still fish deeper and effectively. But of course I'm assuming you're using a light action rod that stalls a fish detecting you at the other end of the line for the amount of time it takes to panic and initially start the hook-set by itself.

JMHO

More of my main pan fish designs I have the most confidence in in any weather or season.