JIGGING SPOON

[ikeslayer]

jigging spoons. Does anyone in the north country use them? i don't ever hear of anyone around here tying one on but maybe i am talking to the wrong people. If anyone does use them i would love to hear the whens and whys and hows that they do. ike

[Wayne Ek]

Ikeslayer: We use them all the time during the ice season. Then once soft-water season rolls around no one I know uses them.

[L_Cappo]

when im fishing lake of the woods.i always use a buckshot jig.i use all kinds of jiggs in the winter time for crappies and walleyes

[EBass]

Just in the winter like Agape said

[harvey lee]

I use many different type jigging spoons. The three main ones are the JB Rattlin Varmit and the Angel eyes and the Go-Devils.

With any of these three, I will tip them with a minnow head, tail, waxie or a whole minnow. With the Go-devil and Rattlin varmit, I will tip them with a piece of meat or waxies and then drop it to the bottom and smack it on the botton and they pull it up a foot or so and jig slowly. I will also use the 1/8oz size for crappies and the 1/16 oz size for any type panfish.

These jigs will work for panfish, perch and eyes. Also with the larger Go-devil, one can use them on channel cats and lakers through the ice with a piece of meat.

A very versatile jig. Check them out here.

http://outdoorproseries.com/jb-lures.html

http://outdoorprostore.com/glow-devil.html

[Flaco651]

I could be wrong, but I think Ike is talking about jigging spoons for open water bass? I've seen it on shows and have read about it, and it can be really productive. I don't think many use this tactic up here.

[Nick Kuhn]

Open water they work well for crappies. I cast them and then use a slow retrieve while jigging it some. The crappies can't seem to resist slow moving spoons no matter what the time of year is.

[polarsusd81]

I have often wondered about their effectiveness here in the upper midwest as well. I would think that you could do pretty well given the right circumstances. A lot of guys in the south will use them jigging on the face of a shear cliff like you find on some of the reseviors down there. Not much of that water up in these parts unless you are looking at a mine pit. I would assume that any steep break holding fish would be a good spot to start with one. Most likely in a chrome or gold color, maybe perch or silver blue as well. I'd be willing to give em a shot.

Another option, when you are drop shotting, switch it up and try em. See if that works for you.

[EBass]

Another spot is maybe on the St. Croix with the cliffs there. Or heck even in Red Wing for walters. Hmm, mine pits - good idea - too bad I only get up there once a year if that.

It's too weedy to cast a weighted treble up here, but ya never know

[SluggoMaster]

Jigging spoons are great for deep suspended fish on main lake/river structure. We don't normally see that type of situation up here except for maybe pool 4 and down. That is a great technique down south when it's hot or very cold.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

I think sluggo hit it. I usually read about it every year in magazines usually around this time. Mostly they are talking about soft water winter tactics for the lakes/resevoirs down south.

I tried the technique last summer on with a swedish pimple and got blanked while doing it.

[RK]

Hiya -

I have a good friend who murders the walleyes with them during the summer - usually a swish pimple. He catches quite a few bass on them at times. I use them as well, usually along weedlines, and do catch some bass on them from time to time - usually after a cold front, oddly enough.

Jigging spoons like a Crippled Herring or Hopkins spoon can be awesome for late fall smallies when they're on top of deep rock humps or out on the end of points. So can blade baits like a Sonar.

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Daze Off]

I was just watching a show where Jason Quinn was using 1/2 and 3/4 oz jigging spoons in deep water. He would let it drop to the bottom and then really hammer it up as if he were setting the hook on a brute and let it flutter back to the bottom. I have a few in various sizes but have never used them and thought they might be good when you got out to 20+ fow outside a weedline or on a deep midlake hump or something. Was planning on giving them a try so I could either incorporate them into the arsenal or leave them home once and for all.

Said to make sure and put an oversized split ring on it if it did not come with one to protect your line. He did pretty well with it.

Daze Off

[CHM]

Ike! Dude, I have many of them and use them for walleyes through the ice. I used to use a perch eye for bait until they outlawed that - then just a minnow head.

If you want some action this summer....tie on a wire leader and a 3/8 or 1/2 oz jigging spoon with a fathead on the hook. Slow troll any weedline and jig it up and down. Snake city! Take all those little snakes home and pickle them! They keep cutting off my junebug jigworms!

[sicheneder]

after seeing the umf match and thinking about it i could see how well these would work in the early fall when the fish are scattered out deep and chasing baitfish.