dragging jig question for everyone

Now that tournament time is slowing down people will even talk a bit soooo while draggin last weekend with crawlers and leeches I was finding letting it carve bottom was the key…so my question is this. For most of you live bait draggers do you find yourself draggin on bottom with bait more or keeping it off the bottom like most times with plastics? Every day is different but it was something I was curious with others….also braid or mono and why? Just a brain storm I had going last weekend and was curious is all and always interesting to read others theory and ways

Most of what I am dragging is 8 to 5 fow, sandy and transitioning to clam beds with a lot of timber. Heavier the boat traffic, the tighter to the bottom. If it is undisturbed, within a foot of the bottom has been good.

I’m running braid/ barrel / w/ 20″ mono and 1/8oz jigs. Braid enables me to pull a lot of jigs out or the limbs up. Mono for fast re-ties.

Just caught this was on the Miss River. I’ve been on the Wolf river/ Bago system all spring. Same concept works though.

Drag queen…….

And who is crawler and leech? Jamie and his dad Brian?

Usually I’ll be within 6″ of the bottom and allow the jig to occasionally tap bottom versus an outright drag. I have seen a long line drag work and work well. Particularly with leeches… not sure why on that though but that seems to be the bait of preference for me when the bite is tight to bottom.

As for line preference on the days when the fish are woofing up baits it doesn’t seem to matter but days when the bite is really light I think mono is the only way to go. On days when the fish are just lipping baits and you need to give them a few seconds (at times much more) I find if I can feel the fish, the fish can feel me and that seems to be compounded when fishing braid. Mono seems to be more forgiving in that situation and I’ve had it make a big difference in the number of fish I’m converting.

I like to tick the bottom occasionally or at least start out doing that. Mono for me all the way when it comes to dragging. Last weekend I found that slowly sweeping the rod forward and then dropping it back triggered bites.

An that is how I do it most times as well…reason I asked…last weekend with the faster flow I up the jig size and if you were not carving it up you were not catching fish!

Mono for us. while draggin though do not forgot to try just plain hook and split shot. Worked better for last time out than jigs.

Just started dragging what do you do with the other pole when you get a snag or fish on while fishing with two poles, and not have it go overboard.

have a rod holder on each side or sit on it while reeling it in…my bad habit is to drop it on the ground and last weeknd we had to catch one mid air

My bad habit is to set it so its just above the tiedown on the rail. So when I go to pick it up after I get done with the other rod I snap it in half under the tiedown.

Rod holders would be the way to go.

Ya what james said. I always use mono when dragging down stream……rrr

Digging bottom can be very productive! I do a cast-n-drag quite often on the sandbars. Throw a 1/4-3/8 erie jig with either a whole crawler, jumbo leech, or a big fathead. I let it hit bottom and just start reeling really slow and steady so the jig is just scooting along the bottom.

I have gone to hardline almost exclusively. 3lb test diameter fireline coupled with 7 ft mediums, fast action St. Croixs. Both 1/16s and 1/8’s–just meter the line out accordingly. Usually ticking bottom pretty good.
Still have rods with mono-but get used less and less- seems the thinner diameter line allows fishing a 1/16th in more places. Definitely, there are days one works better than the other.

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Ya what james said. I always use mono when dragging down stream……rrr

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X2 It get used a lot in my boat and it does work.

Looks like I need to try this dragging sometime!

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Looks like I need to try this dragging sometime!

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…If you want to go drag talk to BK.. ..rr rr