Sauger rigs

[Bassin]

I love to sauger fish and as a bonus I love eating them when I am able to catch them. My question is that I would love to know what the best rigging to catch sauger. i used a 1 oz hair jig with a curly tail trailer and seem to catch good size fish just not very many. Do you have a better rig that you would share. Thanks and be carefull on the water!!

[shane2480]

Let me start by asking a question. Are you fishing from the bank or from a boat? If from the bank try instead of a hair jig just a lead head between 1/4 oz and 1 oz depending on location and water. I prefer using either white, chartruese, or orange Mister Twister curly tail grubs. TO help the bite sometimes it helps to tip your jig with a minnow. If you are fishing out of a boat the same jig setup will work but you might also want to try some jigging spoons, or trolling crankbaits mush like you would for walleye. Again though the method woudl completely depend on the body of water that you are fishing.

[jfw]

Jigs w/curly tail grubs white and chartruese tipped with a minnow
they are biting good now at the falls .WE caught several on just minnows dropping them right over the side of the boat with a couple of split shots .let it hit the bottom and them crank them up a but to get it offf the bottom ,we caught a bumch of white bass too . then the next day we went and the didn't do as good with straight minnows, they seemed to want them on a jig, we got 2 females and they were full of eggs ,the spawn maybe early this year

[Boat Bums]

Fished last year and used the gulp alive love them used the minnow and curl tail. I did find some day they like 2.5" and some day the 4" . So keeping a good selection and the 2 colors that seemed to work best was char. and black shad. In the curl tail char. As far as jig heads i used the one that i could feel the bottom. I boat fish most of the time. Just a foot note fish under 15" don't reproduce!!!!!!!