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QUOTE (chazD @ Jan 16, 2022 - 08:25 pm)
Awesome job Jerry, how do you like your HT Ultralight?
I love that HT Ultralight.. It's ridiculously thin, but good for panfish. Try to land a 5 lb pike with it, it's nuts.. LOL..
Thanks for all the tips (JB). I do have a rod setup with a spring bobber, but didn't bring it. You are right I could be missing the bites up, even thou the HT ultralight can pick up nearly every tick, I am not sure it will get the "up bites"
Also thanks Flukes, I never tried the surgeon knot loop.. Very cool and nice for easy lure changes. That's the main reason I had the small snap. When I fish outside the hands get frozen and numb and it's easier to just use the snap than to re-tie.
I will practice some of these presentations in the aquarium this week, might even catch a guppy.. lol
In short I was a bit lazy this morning and just grabbed a couple of rods I already had rigged from last year - and didn't really prepare my gear.. Now that the dust is off the ice gear, I will fine tune.. Had a great time and now I want to go again.. Caught the ice fishing bug.. haha..
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QUOTE (Jerkbaiter @ Jan 16, 2022 - 04:44 pm)
QUOTE (Flukes @ Jan 16, 2022 - 02:15 pm)
Very nice. Are you sight fishing for them? Agree with Jerkbaiter with no extra hardware if at all possible but I get lazy as well and esp. if I am trying out various baits to see what they are hitting. A couple of ways to reduce hardware. You can tie something like a surgeon's loop and slip the loop through the eye of the jig and then around the jig so that you don't really tie the line to the eye of the jig-head and then you can just do it in reverse to "untie" it and then loop another lure onto it if you wanted to change up. With regards to knots, I find the best action you can get for small baits is when you use a loop knot so the knot itself is not on the eye but above and back on the line itself so the jig can move freely along the line in the knot (great action for tiny baits and great for sunfish). Probably wouldn't have made a difference for such large crappie you are getting.
All good points, thanks.
I guess the main focus is on the bait to be balanced horizontally as Jerry said and that can be done even having a snap, which is convenient for fast changing lures but when the jig is not perfectly vertical you can adjust it by moving the knot on the eyelet of the lure.
I've started using those small snap rings (not sure how they called properly) for ice fishing (see pic below) and they are quite good for fast lure changing and pretty small so they don't affect the jig play but they are sometimes a pain to use if it's too cold outside. They come in variety of sizes so I learned not to use too small of a size for that very reason stated above.
Thanks JB...I like that idea for the ability to change bait quickly....will be using that.
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Hey JB. I think they are called fly clips...at least that is what a few people I have interacted with called them at SAIL and LeBaron's (I missed them - had good prices usually but some of the sales people needed some people skills). I completely agree they if you go too small, you might as well not use them as they can be a real pain to change baits esp. with cold hands. If you go bigger, they are still smaller than snaps. One problem I have had with them is breakage so not sure if that was just poor quality tackle or what.
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QUOTE (Flukes @ Jan 16, 2022 - 11:44 pm)
Hey JB. I think they are called fly clips...at least that is what a few people I have interacted with called them at SAIL and LeBaron's (I missed them - had good prices usually but some of the sales people needed some people skills). I completely agree they if you go too small, you might as well not use them as they can be a real pain to change baits esp. with cold hands. If you go bigger, they are still smaller than snaps. One problem I have had with them is breakage so not sure if that was just poor quality tackle or what.
Thanks for the info I also had line breakage on smaller ones but when I switched to bigger size this problem went away . Yeah small ones are hard to handle with cold hands so I used small pliers for that .
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QUOTE (Jerkbaiter @ Jan 17, 2022 - 09:31 pm)
QUOTE (Flukes @ Jan 16, 2022 - 11:44 pm)
Hey JB. I think they are called fly clips...at least that is what a few people I have interacted with called them at SAIL and LeBaron's (I missed them - had good prices usually but some of the sales people needed some people skills). I completely agree they if you go too small, you might as well not use them as they can be a real pain to change baits esp. with cold hands. If you go bigger, they are still smaller than snaps. One problem I have had with them is breakage so not sure if that was just poor quality tackle or what.
Thanks for the info I also had line breakage on smaller ones but when I switched to bigger size this problem went away . Yeah small ones are hard to handle with cold hands so I used small pliers for that .
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QUOTE (longfish @ Jan 17, 2022 - 10:11 pm)
QUOTE (Jerkbaiter @ Jan 17, 2022 - 09:31 pm)
QUOTE (Flukes @ Jan 16, 2022 - 11:44 pm)
Hey JB. I think they are called fly clips...at least that is what a few people I have interacted with called them at SAIL and LeBaron's (I missed them - had good prices usually but some of the sales people needed some people skills). I completely agree they if you go too small, you might as well not use them as they can be a real pain to change baits esp. with cold hands. If you go bigger, they are still smaller than snaps. One problem I have had with them is breakage so not sure if that was just poor quality tackle or what.
Thanks for the info I also had line breakage on smaller ones but when I switched to bigger size this problem went away . Yeah small ones are hard to handle with cold hands so I used small pliers for that .
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QUOTE (Jerkbaiter @ Jan 17, 2022 - 11:23 pm)
QUOTE (longfish @ Jan 17, 2022 - 10:11 pm)
QUOTE (Jerkbaiter @ Jan 17, 2022 - 09:31 pm)
QUOTE (Flukes @ Jan 16, 2022 - 11:44 pm)
Hey JB. I think they are called fly clips...at least that is what a few people I have interacted with called them at SAIL and LeBaron's (I missed them - had good prices usually but some of the sales people needed some people skills). I completely agree they if you go too small, you might as well not use them as they can be a real pain to change baits esp. with cold hands. If you go bigger, they are still smaller than snaps. One problem I have had with them is breakage so not sure if that was just poor quality tackle or what.
Thanks for the info I also had line breakage on smaller ones but when I switched to bigger size this problem went away . Yeah small ones are hard to handle with cold hands so I used small pliers for that .
I ordered some last night thx.
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I usually have one rod set up with it. Northland has a similar product called quick-snap
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way to go Jerry.........that is a tank
i use what Jerkbaiter mentioned and to swap lures, found it easier to use another lures treble or single hook and pull it off rather than pliers. also had the small size break two times but not the larger ones
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Agree with LS on using a hook to help with lure changes...but I have also put holes in my hands using such technique...clearly, I am not doing it so proficiently
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