Just a thought on tipping lures?

[riverbottoms]

On the thought of tipping or not tipping a spoon or swimming lure with a minnow or minnow head?The thought of tipping is to give our lure scent, but tipping might impair the lures action, right?Why not drop your favorite minnow bait into a food blender (garage sale purchase) and puree them into a very fine dip bait that could be stored in your freezer in small containers?In years past, I myself when tipping my lures with a minnow head it is always my practice to rub and squeeze the remaining minnow guts and blood on my lure to give it added sent.Has anyone tried pureeing their minnows and using them as a dip bait in your lures?

[Ole #1]

When using a jigging rap, I always use a full minnow and hook it through the lips. Then when you jig, it looks like a live minnow, with a wounded minoow swimming next to it.

The walleye sees it as a two for one and destroys it.

I will always use a full minnow now.

[riverbottoms]

Ole#1I like your thought on using a whole minnow and its visual effect on Walleyes, I plan to give it a try the coming season.

[Ole #1]

Thanks riverbottoms.

I read an article a fews years ago about a pro fisherman who uses this method during the summer. I thought it was a good idea, tried it and that's how I use a jigging rap now.

If you jig it a few times just under the water, you can see how good it looks.

Ole

[dakotaB]

I like your idea of "dipping" lures riverbottoms. I might try that this year. I may expand on it a little, by dipping the lure the night before, letting the minnow milkshake dry onto it overnight, you may get a longer lasting scent. Or, I might be completly of my rocker.

An added thought: When I use a jigging spoon with a treble hook, balancing the bait is important and can even improve the motion of the spoon. For example my most successful presentation for perch last season was a swedish pimple with a treble tipped with a maggot on each hook (hooked through the scent glands). This really makes the spoon dance.

[Duffer]

what about freezing it and puting little cubes of ice on it it will melt slowly in the water giving off scent as it melts that might last a little longer.

[MinnetonkaRealtor]

I'm a full minnow tipper as well, usually a smaller fathead if I've got any. Though I do experiment with only using the head sometimes, and then sometimes the tail. Every once in a while I really change things up and hook the minnow right through the back and try that. It feels heavy as heck, but it also slows the drop I'm guessing. I just keep changing till I get something right...

[Northlander]

Try putting a ball of the Power Puddy on you treble. The scent lasts a long time and if ya want you can still put on a minnow head. Not too big a ball or it hinders action. Just about the size of a pencil eraser.

[MasterGophHunter]

Where do you guys usually hook the minnow onto on a jigging Rapala? I have tried a minnow head on the treble hook and have had some success. I saw it on an In-Fisherman video and they pointed out NOT to cut the minnow with a knife but use your fingers and pinch it off instead. This leaves some guts or whatnot hanging off a little instead of having just a clean cut.

-MGH-

[Ole #1]

I take a full minnow and hook it through the lips with the trebel hook.

[kslipsinker]

I have tried both a head and a whole minnow on Jigging Rap's. Sometimes one will work better than the other, depending on the mood of the fish.

[cheesehead]

Wierd idea

How about pureeing your bait and mixing it with thick gelatin (kind of like finger jello)pour this into thin sheets and cut into ribbons. think it would work? anyone care to give it a try?

[MJP]

I have always just tipped my Glow Spoons with just the head of a fathead chub. I have tested the whole minnow vs. the head many times, and it seems the head always had more bites and caught more fish.

Matt Phelps

[Northlander]

I put the head on the teble and at times the tail on the back hook. Have had good success with this set up.

[Duffer]

i like using just the head when do u guys switch to the whole minnow is there a time when it is nececary