We have been playing with this setup for a while now. I don't believe that it takes a bucket full of lures to catch a bucket full of fish. I have been trying to pair down to the essentials…figure out what really works and why and present you with exactly what I have found to work best.
The rigs and jigs I offer are usually the ticket. But sometimes, especially with old crappies, or heavily fished waters, it seems like all any jig gets is a thorough looking over and no bites.
They call those persnickety fish "window shoppers". I've heard them called worse on a long cold night with lots of fish on the sonar and only 2 in the bucket.
My theory is that the active jigging draws in the fish. But those smart old buggers have seen every jig and wiggly doodad that is made. So I tried lowering a live minnow on tiny, sharp treble hook, with a 4-lb. fluorocarbon leader. I suspended it at the strike zone under a slip ice bobber and then actively jig 3-feet away. This is the cleanest most natural presentation I could give them, and they have eaten it up.
Now I watch a big crappie raise a few times on my jig and disappear off my screen. But within a few seconds I watch my slip bobber slowly sinking in my nearby hole. The Side Show strikes again!
Compared to active jigging, my picky crappie catch has gone up by 5-to-1!
Each kit includes one of our Lil' Foam Finger ice bobbers with a line stopper, and a sticky sharp size 14 sharp treble hook tied to a fluorocarbon leader with a quality swivel.
Add one or two split shot on your main line above the swivel and you are ready to trick those big wise pan-fish that think they have seen everything!
Check out The Side Show in action below!
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