Jigging a mepps?

[isntblueitsbrown]

This might sound stupid but, has anyone tried jigging a small mepps spinner? I was going to try it next weekend on some perch on Winnie. Good idea..bad idea. What should a person use for perch on Winnebegash...not sure how to spell it even.

[catfishkid]

A few years ago while up in Canada my buddy used a no.5 giant killer to jig both a walleye and a northern out of 35 feet of water in the same spot about 2minutes apart.

[Neighbor_guy]

Stranger things have worked....

Why not that.

[Christopher Quast]

Personally I would think it would just tangle constantly, but heck worth a try.

[Carl Bjorgen]

has anyone tried jigging a small mepps spinner?

I have a smaller Shimano baitcast reel and a 24" medium action rod combo that I wanted to try out. I thought I might use something heavier that would pull some line off the spool a little more quickly so I tied on a panfish sized Lindy spinner (not Mepps, but as close as you can get).

I really enjoyed jigging with this. You could feel the lure nicely and there was no tangling at all.

Now the flasher showed some curious looks at the lure but no strikes. But, I wasn't getting any strikes on a teeny jig tipped with a waxie either, or anything else I tried that day.

I'm going to try this combo again once the fish get a little more active. The action and flash really seemed to pull the fish in, but they probably need to be a little more energetic before they attack something that lively.

[Jim Almquist]

I like anything that in a perch pattern so the colors that I like to see on a lure for Winnie (much easier to spell)would have gold,orange,yellow,green,black and a little red.Any of the following would work-Kastmaster,Northland Forage minnow and Angel Eye These would be the first things that I would try but if they did not produce then its time to go through the tackle box and see if a different color might trigger them.

[irishwalleye]

Interesting idea -- this is going on my list to try next weekend!!!

Well done

[deadeye]

Its worth a shot. I was going to do it for lakers in deep water but realized my open water stuff was 200 miles away. Give it a shot and let us know. I have had luck with a rattle trap through the ice for northerns so I think a mepps would do fine.

[SM1]

Shhhhhh!

I think thats a horrible idea, they would never work!

[fishandshroom]

I have vertical jigged them in the summer so why not in the winter?? Will try it. I have also jigged bulldawgs in the winter for muskies (when it was legal) and had success.

[Rick G]

Stranger things work. I have caught a lot of realy big pike vertical jiging a 1oz five of diamonds daredevil in the fall over deep water

[catflisher]

Hula popper over a 10 inch hole in the shallows??

[isntblueitsbrown]

I tried it this weekend and caught 2 11 inchers right away....then nothing. The people that were along couldn't believe it worked. We had alot of little perch showing on the aqua view but when I dropped the Mepps...they were not to be found, only the big ones showed up. The 4 of us caught about 70 perch on Friday but we kept about 14 was all. The fish are only inches off the bottom and we did catch quit a few by leaving them suck it out of the mud or off the bottom. We used just about every jig and hook we had with tipped with a minnow head or maggots. About the same thing on Sat. Catch a couple and change lures.

[deadeye]

Well, I guess it was worth the try. I always thought it would work, just never remembered to bring one with. Glad to see you got a couple with it.

[JimBuck]

Hula popper over a 10 inch hole in the shallows??

LOL. Yes!