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| I probably missed this on the Podcast and if so sorry to bother you now. What size jig did you use when jigging?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 1/4 ounce to 1/3 ounce in the weeds, and 1 to 11/8 ounce on the rocks. The interview was fun, Andrew does a great job. |
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| sworrall - 3/27/2022 6:32 PM
1/4 ounce to 1/3 ounce in the weeds, and 1 to 11/8 ounce on the rocks. The interview was fun, Andrew does a great job.
Ok, that was a question I had as well but your answer leaves me with another question. One specific area I was thinking of using this method on has both heavy weeds and boulders/good sized rocks. Really not able to fish seperately. I am thinking maybe 3/4 oz. stand up jig? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | All the jigs I use are stand-up style. How deep are the weeds and rock? |
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| sworrall - 3/27/2022 9:25 PM
All the jigs I use are stand-up style. How deep are the weeds and rock?
The weeds and rock are roughly 3 to 4 feet deep. I used to think the area was almost all weeds, with some large boulders until I got side imaging and saw there were some areas of large rocks mixed in. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Worrall:
First thing is good job on the Podcast and your talk about jig fishing for muskies. You've clearly got a passion for it and anytime someone has that much passion about something they are going to be good at it.
Couple of questions:
1. Can you post a picture of your all-time favorite muskie jig and trailer?
2. Do you ever put a jig spinner arm with a blade attached to the jig or do you feel
this detracts from the life-like action of the jig and trailer?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | North of 8 - 3/27/2022 9:36 PM
sworrall - 3/27/2022 9:25 PM
All the jigs I use are stand-up style. How deep are the weeds and rock?
The weeds and rock are roughly 3 to 4 feet deep. I used to think the area was almost all weeds, with some large boulders until I got side imaging and saw there were some areas of large rocks mixed in.
1/4 ounce powerhead with a Fliptail Creature. Keith has them on the Violent Strike website. The shallower you go, the lighter the jig needs to be so it has some drop time.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | mm3 - 3/27/2022 9:51 PM
Worrall:
First thing is good job on the Podcast and your talk about jig fishing for muskies. You've clearly got a passion for it and anytime someone has that much passion about something they are going to be good at it.
Couple of questions:
1. Can you post a picture of your all-time favorite muskie jig and trailer?
2. Do you ever put a jig spinner arm with a blade attached to the jig or do you feel
this detracts from the life-like action of the jig and trailer?
No spinner arms attached to the jig. A friend of mine, Walt Fox, built the first creature with a spinner off the tail back in the 70's. Curtis refined it, but it's more of a spinnerbait than a creature in behavior. jdsplasher makes a good one with my original Super Creature body, see the Basement Baits forum.
The attached image is my Dad's original swimmer head and a Fliptail creature I designed for Stembridge Products, this is the one I use on rocks, deep breaks, and outside weed edges.
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Location: Northern Illinois | Thanks! |
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| sworrall - 3/27/2022 10:14 PM
North of 8 - 3/27/2022 9:36 PM
sworrall - 3/27/2022 9:25 PM
All the jigs I use are stand-up style. How deep are the weeds and rock?
The weeds and rock are roughly 3 to 4 feet deep. I used to think the area was almost all weeds, with some large boulders until I got side imaging and saw there were some areas of large rocks mixed in.
1/4 ounce powerhead with a Fliptail Creature. Keith has them on the Violent Strike website. The shallower you go, the lighter the jig needs to be so it has some drop time.
Thanks, would not thought to go that light. |
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| What kind of line do you use ? Braid? Mono? and how heavy? and what kind of leader? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | 17# mono or 50# braid. 60# seven strand leader. |
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| Check out....
Musky Mastery by Steve Heiting, 1992. Chapter 2 is "Jigs and Reapers with Gene Curtis". |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Creature fishing discussions: Online chat for 2009 How it all started: History and Technique 2005 article: Of Jigs and Muskies Musky Hunter reprinted a Gene Curtis article recently.
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| OK, now I am really intrigued. Been wanting to catch a fish on a jig for sometime. Being a member of the Flatlanders Chapter of Muskies Inc. for which I understand Gene Curtis was originally from has always peeked my interest. With that said, where do I find the podcast?
Steve
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| Here:
https://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=14... |
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| Hmmm, I have this image of the lakes in northern WI with lots of folks tossing half ounce jigs/creatures with spinning rods for muskies, instead of 10" minnow baits and double 10 bucktails with 9' XH casting rods. The walleye fishermen ae going be so confused. |
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| Thank you for the link. |
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| Do you ever rig creatures with stinger hooks, or do you stay with just the jig head ? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I've never felt the need to put another hook on a creature, usually, the muskie is buttoned up nicely. |
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