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| I am having trouble with hooking eyes. They continue to steal my bait!!!!lol. I'm using the jig/worm or jig/leech technique. Is it possible to run a stinger hook to help? Would it effect the action of the leech? I also run 1/2 crawlers usually so I don't know if the worm would be long enough for a stinger to be effective. Any help would be great. |
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Location: Berlin | I don't use stinger hooks...ever. Yes they increase hook-up percentages but they decrease the amount of bites you get. They also like to pick up debris from the bottom and tangle your bait. I have vertical jigged using two rods. One has a stinger and one does not. By the end of the day, the one without CATCHES more fish because it got more bites.
My suggestion is look at your set-up. Match your rod/reel with your ability. If you are a novice jig fisherman, use mono with a 6' medium/light action rod. This will dull the sensitivity making it harder for the fish to feel you. By the time you realize you have a fish, it will be hooked. From there you can work your way up to a 7' medium action rod with a fast tip and use superlines.
The trick is to be able to have such good feel that you feel the fish before it feels you. Now when they bite short, you just give them more time.
The reaon for the difference in rod length is the slightest wrist movement will move the 7'er much more then the 6'er. You have to be much faster at identifying a bite with a 7' then a 6'. The only time I don't use a 7'er is when it is windy, then I drop to a 6.5'er. Everyone is different but that is what works for me.
I have done this exact thing with me 9 year old son. He has caught a lot of walleyes off our dock in 10ft of water with a cross-current using a 1/8oz jig. He just upgraded his old rod to a 6' Fenwick and is now using fireline. I hope this helps. |
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| Great advice Rich! I bet you can't wait for the day when your son drops his jig inches from yours and pulls in fish after fish with that new set-up, showing the old man a thing or two......A memory that will NEVER be forgotten believe it or not!
Good Luck
Tyee |
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Location: Berlin | That day already happened:) My buddy Chris took us out last year in spring. We were vertical jigging in the river in Oshkosh. My son Alec was using one rod and Chris and I were each using two rods. Alec had 4 fish in the boat before either of us had one. I have never been so proud and embarrased at the same time. I look forward to all the fun we are going to have together. I still have two daughters that might take it up as well. Life is good:) |
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| Rich, Wait till you get home from a fishing trip with your daughter and she tells your wife that you caught 3 Walleyes and 2 Shitheads... ah yes, they will pickup all the habits. The time I spend with my kids fishing is the most important time in my life, they can't get away and I get to tell my stories over and over again! Dominic |
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| No argument with Rich but when pitching jigs in wind I add Stingers because it is hard to finess fish with boat movement and wind blowing the rod. I use a number 8 red true turn hook imbedded in the night crawler with hook facing up. Stinger rarely hooks bottom and it is virtually undetectable. It doesn't work well with leeches because of their twisting movement. I fasten hook to jig with red Power pro leaving slack line so you don't alter the crawlers appearance. |
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| I've found over the years that matching the weight of the jig to the conditions is the most important factor in getting hooked up and catching fish. I use the lightest jig that I can feel. You need to be able to feel the jig not only when you jig it but when it falls--my experience is that when pitchin jigs, the vast majority of your hits will be when the jig is falling. I have also started making some of my own buvktail jigs for use with larger minnows. Nobody makes a light (1/8 or 1/16) bucktail jig with a big enough hook for using larger minnows. I found some unpainted tube jigs at Cabela's in those weights both with 2/0 hooks, and have increased my hookup percentages considedrably. Good luck |
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| I've found over the years that matching the weight of the jig to the conditions is the most important factor in getting hooked up and catching fish. I use the lightest jig that I can feel. You need to be able to feel the jig not only when you jig it but when it falls--my experience is that when pitchin jigs, the vast majority of your hits will be when the jig is falling. I have also started making some of my own bucktail jigs for use with larger minnows. Nobody makes a light (1/8 or 1/16) bucktail jig with a big enough hook for using larger minnows. I found some unpainted tube jigs at Cabela's in those weights both with 2/0 hooks, and have increased my hookup percentages considerably. Good luck. By the way, tying jigs is so easy and inexpensive, and keeps you in the mood on some of the colder winter days. |
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