jig pole fishing

[dmd]

Anyone do any jig pole fishing? If so would you please tell a little about it like how, when, where, thought this would make a good discussion.

[plowboy]

It used to be very popular on Cumberland in the Winter to use a long strong jigging pole with a slip float shinner or clump of earthworms and drop it along bushes, logs, etc. They say having a 5 or 6 lb bass on the end of a jigging pole is is a real experience. I have fished in Mississippi with a jigging rod for crappie. They use a slip bobber, braided line and a crappie jig with a minnow on the back. Drop it in by a piece of cover and you never know what you'll catch. Mostly crappie but bass and catfish can't turn it down. The braided line lets you straiten the hook out if it gets tangled (which it will) without having to rerig. Good luck.

[Fishin_4_Fun]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-16-06 AT 11:49PM (EST)[/font][p]No tellin how many hours and miles I've sculled a boat jig fishing. Lots of good memories.

Time frame usually from Mid-March to Mid-April. Mostly fished @ Green due to the monster fish it holds. Fished Herrington, quite a bit, and Cumberland some. Preferred night fishing, which usually meant little wind, and bigger fish. I preferred bluffs with a little broken rock.

Caught many 6's, several 7's, 2-8's, and 1-9.

Haven't been for a few years, but was thinking about giving it a try this year, with a friend who used to go some. It is a lot of work, though sculling a john boat sitting on a bench seat, as opposed to fishing out of a bass boat, and pushing a button to go.

I have jig fished out of a bass boat as well, but I can attest that quietly slipping along the bank sculling, is a lot more effective.

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[Calvin]

Does anyone know were you can purchase a jigging pole?
I did an internet search last year but didn't have any
success. Would like to try this technique. I heard my
grandpa talk about it years ago. Thanks for any help.

Calvin

[Fishin_4_Fun]

No idea. Most tackle shops would give you a puzzled look, if you asked for a jig pole. Mine are Lews. Rigged by running the line through the inside and out through the tip with a smooth rivet place there. 50# mono and an inline real cork that's slidable and held in place by tootpicks. 5/0 hook with about 1/2 oz of weight. A skirt at the eye of the hook, a platic worm which hangs vertically straight, and tipped with a live nightcrawler.

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[Rowdy]

A friend of mine in Bowling green uses these in 1st week of June on Ky lake.He also has Buzz poles! Same poles with a home made buzzbait on2ft of line.He found some at Hendersonville Tn. I think they were about $70.00?
Try the Tenn. board
Rowdy

[adam7456]

>Does anyone know were you can
>purchase a jigging pole?
>I did an internet search last
>year but didn't have any
>
>success. Would like to try this
>technique. I heard my
>grandpa talk about it years ago.
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Calvin


Walmart in Georgetown actually has some. I saw them other day and wondered what they were so I checked them out. They had all the way up to 12 ft rods. I'm thinking they ran just under $40.

[Rowdy]

Make shure its for Bass the crappie poles are way to lite!
I think Dannys were 14ft and real stiff.
Good Luck
Rowdy

[plowboy]

Yea, finding a stiff one is the hard part. You can find jigging poles pretty easy but you need one that will handle a bass.

[RandyO]

What do you do with the fish you catch.