I bought a bunch of Pinhead minnows fished them under slip floats and crappies loved them ! I also threw x-rap size 4 crappies inhaled them . Rapala Ultra Light cranks also caught . Last was the Tikka minnow ,caught them but hard to keep hooked . Amazing afternoon fishing these different lures and they all produced .
Number 5 jigging rap is my go 2.
I will have to try that No 5 . I have a bunch of Shiver minnows i have not tried yet . It makes it fun when you can catch them on various lures .
People tend to stick with the same thing when the bite is good, really thats the best time to try and build confidence in new stuff.
I watched a show the Linders did not to long ago and they were using x raps to catch crappies. They had a specific jerk cadence they were using. I now have a rod set up like they used but have not yet tried it out.
I remember Bearcat writing about Pinhead minnows for ice-fishing. Sounds like I have to try some
People tend to stick with the same thing when the bite is good, really thats the best time to try and build confidence in new stuff.
Thats good advice. It’s what I have been trying the last few years.Of course alot depends on the fish.
I follow Pete Maina on FB, and he has been posting pictures of some nice crappies they have been catching on large jerkbaits! Had me very surprised, but they were almost as long as some of the fish they were catching LOL
People tend to stick with the same thing when the bite is good, really thats the best time to try and build confidence in new stuff.
Smart people think this way.
After struggling to produce with my go-to patterns(1/16oz leadheads with 2″tubes) the last few days, I broke out the icefishing box and used small slab-raps & jigging raps. I started with the jigging raps, which worked well, but I lost 50% of hookups. Frustrated, I switched to slabraps and worked them vertically over marked fish. WOW! what a difference. Whereas the tubes elicited very subtle nuanced bites, the slabraps were inhaled with savage strikes. I’ve had these things kicking ’round for years without really considering them for summers. Now they’re my go to 1st choice for finicky fish.
Dee J curious what size slab rap and rod action you were using.
Smallest size, about 1-1/4″ long. 7′ St. Croix Premier ulf2. If the bite is a tough one, I fish vertically over marked fish using my sonar as if I was ice fishing.
1/2 oz blade baits
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Smallest size, about 1-1/4″ long. 7′ St. Croix Premier ulf2. If the bite is a tough one, I fish vertically over marked fish using my sonar as if I was ice fishing.
Brand new Slab Raps still in the package , thanks for reminding me !
1/2 oz blade baits
Those are some nice sized eaters !
Bullet sinkers and spinners w crawlers on shallow feeding flats.
Find the school, pick em apart w coordinating jig color w gulp minnow
Tim and Don said it best:
Don:
It makes it fun when you can catch them on various lures.
and TimH:
People tend to stick with the same thing when the bite is good, really thats the best time to try and build confidence in new stuff.
If I couldn’t catch fish on different lures – especially the ones I make and/or modify, I wouldn’t fish. I cast a slew of small soft plastics rigged on 1/16 oz or lighter jigheads that catch pretty much everything which includes different species and different size fish. Like all of you, I’m addicted to the strike followed by wondering what’s hooked!!!
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