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 Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/02/18 04:01 PM
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I generally hook through the nose, but if you'll hook the minnow in the white gut pouch right above the anal fin, the minnow will swim upwards. This motion is very, very deadly.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/02/18 04:57 PM
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I hook through the nose and my wife hooks the back ..... I usually catch more fish, but sometimes they want the back hooked!
I usually hang a minnow over the side of the boat and hold my jig rod.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: Txmedic033]
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04/02/18 05:13 PM
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I used some for the first time a couple days ago. They wouldn't eat them unless they were hooked behind the dorsal fin. I literally reeled in my minnow and took the hook out of his lips and put it through its back and caught a fish 10 seconds later. I was fishing under a cork in 2' of water. The only time I had previously used them was for drifting and I hooked them through the lips then. yes, if the minnow is big enough with enough meat behind the dorsal fin, the minnow will swim vigorously under water, and any fish around that is even slightly in a feeding mode will nail it. if that doesnt work, hook them upside down in the belly, they will swim like crazy to try and upright themselves, and swim in a large circle.
COMING SOON! .. THE STICKLE HOOK " the stay level sickle hook". sits level in the water with all knots.! Provides better hook sets and more natural jigging motion. No more adjusting the knot, gluing , or tying loop knots that cause the hook point to tangle in the loop, or worse knick the line.. The jighook that will make all others obsolete !
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/02/18 05:16 PM
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if you want to concentrate on larger fish, hook the minnow right thru the center of its head, the thick reddish blood will oooze out slowly and the big fish will bulldog thier way to it, and grab it. if theres big fish there, who cares if he dies, I will srely trade one minnow for one slab crappie! 
COMING SOON! .. THE STICKLE HOOK " the stay level sickle hook". sits level in the water with all knots.! Provides better hook sets and more natural jigging motion. No more adjusting the knot, gluing , or tying loop knots that cause the hook point to tangle in the loop, or worse knick the line.. The jighook that will make all others obsolete !
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/02/18 06:35 PM
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Dan_n_Texas
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When I was a kid (50 years ago) we only hooked them behind the dorsal fin. We never heard of hooking them anywhere else.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/02/18 09:13 PM
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At this time of year, with the water being as cool as it is and fish are aggressive, I hook them right through the eyes. They don't live as long, but if you're on fish, they don't have to. I'm constantly checking my minnows, and replacing them as needed. A good fresh minnow is candy to a crappie.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: pigboy]
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04/03/18 03:11 AM
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Under a bobber with a bare jig, I hook thur the nose. Fishing under the boat two cranks up, I hook them above the eye ball, not thur the eye. thur the eye sockets.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: Gamblinman]
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04/04/18 05:59 PM
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elbandito78
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At this time of year, with the water being as cool as it is and fish are aggressive, I hook them right through the eyes. They don't live as long, but if you're on fish, they don't have to. I'm constantly checking my minnows, and replacing them as needed. A good fresh minnow is candy to a crappie. I go through the eyes too but as long as I miss the actual eyes and go through the socket, they tend to live and be lively for a long time.
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Re: Where to hook minnow ??
[Re: elbandito78]
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04/04/18 10:44 PM
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Gamblinman
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At this time of year, with the water being as cool as it is and fish are aggressive, I hook them right through the eyes. They don't live as long, but if you're on fish, they don't have to. I'm constantly checking my minnows, and replacing them as needed. A good fresh minnow is candy to a crappie. I go through the eyes too but as long as I miss the actual eyes and go through the socket, they tend to live and be lively for a long time. LOL...well that was what I meant, just my description was lacking accuracy.
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