hookin on minnows

[Coon]

how do you reccomend hookin on minnows on various jigs, including just the heads?

[PerchJerker]

I hook minnow heads through the lips.

There's several ways to hook live minnows. For lively minnows you can go through the lips, just under the skin along the back, or through the tail. For less lively minnows you can go through the back or into the mouth and out the head or gills. You can hook the minnows so your hook goes across them, or so your hook runs along them and points toward their head.

Hope that makes sense and helps Good luck.

[Team Otter]

I hook minnow heads through the top of the head and out the bottom of their "chin". I hook whole minnows through the skin of the back between the dorsal fin and tail or from underneath the tail out the back.

[delta hunter]

There is one way that wasn't said that I do during jigging. I run the hook thru the eye sockets. It hads a little more movement to the minnow head when jigging!

[james_walleye]

I have seen times before when hooking a minnow in the mouth makes the fish nuts after fishing a minnow hooked in the book did nothing. Keep it in mind, it will save your day at some point.

[zepman]

When jigging I'll always hook the minnow head thru the gill-plate or the meat directly behind it. That way a fish is looking directly at the head or mouth of the minnow head. I'll have to try some of the other techniques on my next outing.

[beer batter]

On rattle reels I've been hooking under skin of the back just in front of the dorsal fin with the hook going towards the head so that the hook is running laterally with the shiner minnow. The predator fish typically eat a minnow head first, so this type of hook presentation has been getting me some good hook sets.

[bluebill]

i have a way that has worked for a lot of years like beer batter said they eat head first i always use 2 fathead hooked with there heads away from each other it is killer on eyes

[Bassman55]

When I am out perch fishing I usually try a few different things. When I am jigging I hook the head though the lips. It seems to fish nice for me. On my dead stick rods (you can fish 4 rods in ND) I try hooking minnows though the lips and tail. Sometimes I have trouble hooking fish one way or the other and the bigger perch will usually perfer one. That way I don't have to unhook so many little ones.