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    I want to try some floating jig heads now that the crappie have gone deeper and near the bottom. What size hook do most use. Thanks for your help. Pop

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    Quote Originally Posted by pop View Post
    ... the crappie have gone deeper and near the bottom.
    So why used a floating jig head?

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    Maybe'a'drop shot could work too?
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    Quote Originally Posted by deathb4disco View Post
    So why used a floating jig head?
    Although not something I want to do, I assume that if you were to fish a floating jig head on something like Carolina rig style you'd maintain a constant relationship to the bottom a lot easier than trying to count down and reel at whatever pace you need to in order to keep a standard jig in that relationship. I've never found crappie, at least active ones, to be too particular about how close the jig is above them. But maybe it would be a great tool for mostly inactive crappie that don't want to rise very far to catch a jig. I've never fished a floating jig head, so just speculating on my part. It makes sense that there may be certain situations where it might be worth a shot though and you could keep the retrieve speed very slow for those lethargic fish.
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    Does he mean a float and jig head below it? Works for me!


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    I assumed he meant a jig head made to float off the bottom like walleye fisherman sometimes use to suspend night crawlers off the bottom behind a weight. Don't know for sure though and what they say about "assume" sometimes applies to me. It looks like a jig head, but instead of being made from dense material it is constructed to be buoyant.
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    The one big drawback of a "floating jighead" is that the hook points DOWN, rather than up ... and that's a negative factor for two reasons, first being that it's way more likely to snag into something, and secondly (& maybe a little less of a negative) it's going to hook fish in the lower lip area (rather than in the roof of the mouth).

    The fact that they're made to "float" (& assumedly on the surface) the weight of the exposed hook is going to force the hook point to be facing downwards ... at least the ones I've used were that way. I've thought about using them in much the same way as Pop describes and the other members have "assumed" he meant ... but never got around to trying it. Once I got to using weedless jigheads, the idea for them just kinda fell by the wayside.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pop View Post
    I want to try some floating jig heads now that the crappie have gone deeper and near the bottom. What size hook do most use. Thanks for your help. Pop
    You can make your own floating heads from foam floats and a Aberdeen hook. You have to give the hook a reverse bend so the hook rides up not down.
    These work well for walleyes with a walking sinker or bottom bouncer.

    See:https://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-...ing-jig-heads/

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    A few of you hit the nail on the head and things I didn't think about. The main thing I didn't realize is the jig floating upside down. Hooking would be a problem. I was thinking about the jig floating up and be above the crappie. Back to the drawing board. Pop

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    why not just drop it to the bottom and raise the rod tip or turn the reel handle one or 2 times is my question ?
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