07-09-2015, 03:57 PM
TD, when you do those Gulp minnows, do you do a hanger shot with a bubble? That's how I've been trying to do it and haven't had success.
I guess if you're using a jighead it's probably on the end of a fluorocarbon leader. One thing I do know about minnows and minnow-imitating baits is that the action is key. You can't just stick it on the hook like a worm, you need to have it sit vertically in the water as though it's alive and well or alive and dying. The best way for me with a jighead is to thread it along the hook and then have the hook come out its back so it looks like it has the head in its mouth and then looks like it's swimming up and down when jigged. I suspect that sticking a hook under the dorsal fin of a frozen or freshly killed minnow and then hanging it under a bobber would be good too. I wish i could get the sideways shimmy action going on a minnow under a bobber like I do when ice fishing, it's killer for predatory trout.
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I guess if you're using a jighead it's probably on the end of a fluorocarbon leader. One thing I do know about minnows and minnow-imitating baits is that the action is key. You can't just stick it on the hook like a worm, you need to have it sit vertically in the water as though it's alive and well or alive and dying. The best way for me with a jighead is to thread it along the hook and then have the hook come out its back so it looks like it has the head in its mouth and then looks like it's swimming up and down when jigged. I suspect that sticking a hook under the dorsal fin of a frozen or freshly killed minnow and then hanging it under a bobber would be good too. I wish i could get the sideways shimmy action going on a minnow under a bobber like I do when ice fishing, it's killer for predatory trout.
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