Anyone using the P-Line fishing line?
[QUOTE=roadrunner;513233]Tyme if you ever want to borrow my Banjo or Helicopter lure just let me know.[/QUOTE]
It was suggested to me that P-Line might work well on an ultra light outfit for casting small 1/16 oz jigs.
Anyone else have any comments on how the P-Line works with small ultra light rods and small jigs?
I'm going to try to cast small jigs on a longer whipping type St Croix rod. I'll try to report on how well that works.
My Best Crappie Lure -- Slurpies
[QUOTE=bkbobbit;512627]Anyone have suggestions on the best crappie lures? I myself prefer a chartreuse curly tail with 1/8 or 1/16 oz. white jig head?[/QUOTE]
The last 5 years or so I've had some pretty good luck with Slurpies.
[url=http://www.northlandtackle.com/Category/main.taf?cat=366]Northland Fishing Tackle: SLURPIESŪ SMALL FRY[/url]
Larger jar of artifical bait nibbles
I've seen those larger nibbles but have not tried them. The small ones work so good that I'm reluctant to change.
One trick to make the Nibbles stay on the hook longer. I have an extra lid from an old empty crappie nibble jar. I keep that extra lid in my pocket of my life vest so I have access to it at all times I'm out in the boat fishing. I take a few nibbles out of the jar and set them into the extra lid and set that out in the sun on the deck of the boat for a while. This allows the nibbles to dry out and harden up a bit. Just leave them out long enough for the outer skin of the nibble to harden up so it will stay on the hook better.
And if the nibbles get too dry you can put them back inside the jar and add a few drops of water to the jar and nibbles. They will reasorb the water vapor and get soft again.
The nibbles don't stay on the hook forever but the good thing is that they dissolve in the water where you are fishing and add their scent to the water where the fish are.
I use to use DR. JUICE a long time ago. They still sell it at Gander Mountain. I found that a drop of Dr. Juice added to my plastic worm and allowed to dry onto the worm helped me catch more Largemouth bass. At least it seemed that way to me. I hard a hard time learning to fish plastic worms in deep water. I never could tell what was a bite and what was a rock or stump. At least not until I really stayed with fishing plastic worms for a while and got a few bites. Once I figured out what the bite felt like it was on like Donkey Kong. :) Then I started to add some Dr. Juice to the baits and fishing got even better. In my mind I though it worked and it gave me more confidence and I fished harder and longer. Thus I seemed to catch more fish.
This was the very beginning of people selling and using scents for bass fishing and such. Now the catfishing crowd used smelly baits long before that. If you look at a fish's brain you will notice that a large part of the brain is devoted to SMELL. That told me something. Remember Salmon can smell their way back to where their egg hatched in a stream from the Open Ocean. The fact that they can detect the chemical smell of that particular stream is amazing to me.
[QUOTE=Colbyt;513241]I did not take Mama along and I got out of Walmart for a hair over $4. :)
Based on this thread I bought some nibbles. After the boat would not float off the trailer we used them from the dock with slip bobbers and hooks.
I have to say I was impressed with the results. We caught about as many fish (16) as we would have with live minnows. Had I been in the mood to filet little crappies about half of those were worth cleaning.
Now I noticed another brand there with a larger jar and bigger pellets (forgot the name); has anyone used those?[/QUOTE]
