Jig presentation

Hey can anyone tell me the speed and colors to use while spring smallie fishing

Well, I was recently throwing a Chompers spider grub on a jighead and caught a few smallies. It was pumpkin/green flake

Slim Fishin,

I like to use a 1/4 or 5/16 oz. rubber skirt jig with a weed guard and sometimes I tip with a plastic or pork product. The other presentaion that I like is a 3″ tube Texas-rigged with an Eagle Claw® High Performance Hook (the ones with the clip on them) and a 1/16 – 1/8 oz. tube weight inside – but bring a file to sharpen the hooks.

These combinations have accounted for many many smallies around wing dams and other rock and timber structures.

Good luck! Dave

Let it be known that I agree! Tubes, jigs, they all work!! So many fish!!!!!! *ahem* I can vouch for that Eagle Claw hook, by the way…I lost a lot of fish on wide gap hooks with tubes until I switched over to those Eagle Claw Grigsby hooks. I go with 3/0 for both casting and pitching 4″ or 3″ tubes. Any number of colors work, darks do well, white, too, and hotter colors like mustard.

Orange jig head 1/4 once, with a white twister has been the key for me, keep it about 3 to six in….

P.S. slim-fishin make sure u can feel bottom, and 1/4 once are the key remember

Hey Dave thanx for the information it was must needed.

Blake

In a lot of current along rip rap, I have found that a 1/8 oz. hair jig will work well to pull the smallies out of the rocks. I have nailed them at the south end of lake pepin this way. Get your boat parallel to the shore and find any rock of any size that sticks out in the current a little more than the others. Throw your jig on the downstream side right behind the rock and if there is one there it will hammer it. Have caught many nice sized smallies this way. They seem to like the “mini-eddie” created by the rock. Something for you to think about and to try.

In the Spring a smallie will almost hit anything that goes by them.from anything to a hair jig to a crankbait…..Especially if they are spawning and you bring it by there nest..there not too picky..but on the other hand they can be pretty picky along summer conditions because there is so much food for them in to pick from in the water..

flick hit it right on the head, if you can find them they will hit anything you put in front of them you just have to have the knowledge to find them.

In late summer or fall we have used the Chompers spider grub in blue/black (if you can stand the garlic) with great success on pool 5a for smallies along the rip-rap. Beware of sheepshead though.

I used the chompers last summer on a 1/4 ounce jighead and did very well on the rocks and under the docks on pool 10.
This year I am going to try the Yammamoto twim-tail skirted grubs. I think they will work just as well.

i throw a 1/4 oz blk and blue jig 97% of the time i have a jig tied on, which i guess is everytime i go out, i would have to say i fish at a medium speed, maybe alittle faster than the avg fishermen

I like to use a snapping turltes’s head on a daredevil, this will work in any situation

I am partial to the painted turtle -daredevil combo.Good on those trophy size sheepys as well!