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When they just won't bite or.... #11097497 09/12/15 12:31 AM
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When they just won't bite or are just pecking on your bait, what to do. Takes patience but pays off. Today was a perfect example. I arrived at the office at 7:00 AM. In first 15 min. I had lots of little pecks but only one small crappie. I switched to a bait so small that they could not peck it without eating it. 1/64 oz jig, #10 (tiny) hook and a micro jig body.






I quit at 9:30 having caught 31 crappie, 7 bass (small) and 6 bluegills. All were within 6' of the surface. Six of the crappie were nice keepers.

The bait fell so slow that they just couldn't resist it.


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Re: When they just won't bite or.... [Re: ERNEST PATY] #11097554 09/12/15 01:18 AM
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Thank you Ernest for that tip. I'll have to try that next time.


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Re: When they just won't bite or.... [Re: ERNEST PATY] #11097707 09/12/15 02:32 AM
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Ernest, you just cost me $32. Why oh why would you show me the name of the those jigs. hammer woot I am a hopeless tackle ho!

Thanks for sharing bud.


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And that is how you stop short strikes. Good lookin bait!


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Re: When they just won't bite or.... [Re: Jig Man] #11097918 09/12/15 11:18 AM
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How about a link to the website? I tried to google it without success. Need a little help here guys.


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Re: When they just won't bite or.... [Re: ERNEST PATY] #11097933 09/12/15 11:45 AM
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Just a FYI, Crazy Angler's "Mini" Slab Bandit, the 1250 I think, on a 1/32oz ball head with a #6 hook usually stops those "short peck's" here on Palestine. The last couple years a buddy & I cleaned up on the Flat Creak bridge with the Mini Pearl Truse on a 1/16oz #6 jig. Very few miss' once we scaled down. Thanks Ernest for the reminder! I had forgotten about that & the last several outings we've been really fighting the "Peck-Set-Nothing's"!

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I agree that the mini slab bandit works and I use it a lot but sometimes even that's not small enough.


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Those eyes on the body are deadly


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If I would have read this last night this morning's trip may have been better. bang


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I heard Dynamite works pretty good too. lizard fish hammer


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Re: When they just won't bite or.... [Re: ERNEST PATY] #11099546 09/13/15 03:34 AM
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That mini Slab Bandit from Crazy Angler is called Lil Rascal. Great bait for those finicky crappie. And it will catch big crappie also. Late July thru mid Sept is usually the time to down size.


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