Hey, let’s get back to the comment made a few posts back. “New web guy”….where’s Hougie? Has he moved on? Has he been replaced? He built this thing and now he’s gone?
Where did he go and why is there a new web guy?
It’s odd that there aren’t any posts from him anymore. Is he alright?
How about some answers from those who know?
FP

Seems to make perfect sense to me NOT to use a stinger.

After I read the ring worm article, it seemed that Beaver was making it a strong point that this is a life-like presentation with light jig heads. Something as light as a ring worm on a light jig head can be sucked in effortlessly even by a small walleye. It seems to me that adding a stinger in the worm would take away some of the worms fleibility and make it more prone to snagging on the bottom.

Most guys that I see using jig/minnow/stinger combos are fishing vertical with heavier jigs than what the ring worm article talks about. Those heavier jigs aren’t sucked in as easily as a 3/32 or 1/8 oz. jig. Besides that, the fish that I usually catch on a stinger are sub-legal fish anyway.

I’m going to try ringworms vertically with as light a jig as I can get by with. If I’m getting hits and not catching fish, I’ll try shortening the worm as was suggested.

There seems to be an army of people with considerable know-how heading up this site. I’m going to take their advise and fish my worms bare. In fact, I think that I’ll leave the live bait home for the year and see how I fare. I have a funny feeling that if I go out and try what they are trying to teach us here, that I’m going to be at least as successful as I’ve always been and probably more-so.

I’ll find out this weekend. I’ll try the light, natural worm thing shallow, and if I go vertical, I’ll try my new Super-Dos. Seems that those two baits were made for completely different applications. Either way, no live bait or stingers for me.

FP