Thread: Opinons

If I was slow trolling (spider rigging), tightlining, or drifting I'd definitely use meat. But with longlining I dont think there's any benefit.

I'm not sure. I have had times last spring where they won't bite a jig without a minnow and other times it didn't matter. I do believe each lake is different. On G'wood I have great luck with road runner heads tipped with a minnow and on the Hill a regular head without a minnow will out catch a RR 5 to 1 on the Ga side and a jig tipped does best on Little River. Hartwell I caught most my fish using a RR jigs with a minnow and Russell I use a regular head jig with or without a minnow.

I'm only set up for spider rigging,95% of the time I use RR Heads with curly tails I didn't know if it helped this time of year or if it would interfere with my tail action.

just use a r.r. head or a round head tipped minnow only

How fast are you pushing those RR's striperking?

I use a minnow head jig with a twister tail and always tip with a live minnow for both spider rig and long line.

Jimmy, so your saying don"t use any kind of body on the jig head? And bowman I really don"t know how fast I am running because I don" have a GPS on my crappie boat.I have a HDS5 on it without GPS thats about 6 months old and would like to sale it and get a HDS7

Originally Posted by gabowman

If I was slow trolling (spider rigging), tightlining, or drifting I'd definitely use meat. But with longlining I dont think there's any benefit.

I always tip some rigs with minnows, but it also has to do with the lake your fishing on, some lake longlining is still working other they've bunched up in channels and spider rigging is about only way to go.