Sauger...?

[F16ENGMGR]

Last Saturday & Sunday I blanked both days for sauger. Fished above Markland. Hit my usual creek mouths that i've done good in the past. Sunday was a real fiasco. Fun fishin turned into work with the wind. I said screw it. River temp 42 and had current. WOW! I don't use minnows. Maybe those guys have done better. Still bummed and searching!!!

[smljaw]

I sauger fished KY River back in early November and again the day after Thanksgiving. We caught 8 in early Nov. but blanked in late Nov. I have been reading about different ways to catch them. I'm excited about trying the 3-way rig next time I go. I think I'll put a floating jig head on the business end tipped with a minnow or crawler.

In my limited experience I have caught them on grubs and white BPShops Strata jigging spoons. What other methods do y'all us for sauger? I've heard a lot about hair jigs, grubs, trolling, etc. I also hear a lot about using stinger hooks. How important is this?

[kyjake]

Minnows can't be beat for sauger.Myself and many others use jigs with two to three inch plastic tails in white or chartreuse.Most use 1/4 oz.,I like a little heavier for better to feel the bottom.The closer to the bottom the better chance to catch sauger.Did well last fall but it has been a bummer this year.
Jake

[BASSKING]

I sauger fished KY River back in early November and again the day after Thanksgiving. We caught 8 in early Nov. but blanked in late Nov. I have been reading about different ways to catch them. I'm excited about trying the 3-way rig next time I go. I think I'll put a floating jig head on the business end tipped with a minnow or crawler.

In my limited experience I have caught them on grubs and white BPShops Strata jigging spoons. What other methods do y'all us for sauger? I've heard a lot about hair jigs, grubs, trolling, etc. I also hear a lot about using stinger hooks. How important is this?

i tie a surgeons knot and attatch a 1/4-1/2 ounce weight and use a #2 arberdeen hook with a minnow if the current is not too swift and we have had good sucsess with that method. BPS sell a sauger jig and it looks like a 1 ounce stand up jig head with a feathery skirt and it is packaged with a stinger hook. i bought one but it is not an affective method when bank fishing, i lost it on the second cast. also the 2 1/2 inch berkley gulp minnow is a method i have had some sucsess with when the water is slightly stained. to rig it i will use a sureons knot and tie two 1/8 ounce jigheads ont the tag ends and rig them with the gup minnow with a steady retrieve and the slight twich every two or three cranks. but all in all its hard to out do the live minnow when fishing for sauger IMO.
also a 1/4 ounce kastmaster with the bucktail works good as well.