Jaw jackers

[zachrip99]

Anyone use jaw jackers? How do you like them?

[Curley]

I have 1. Never use it. In all fairness I never took the time to play with it to get it set up right. I prefer the ice rigger. If I miss the hook set it's on me.

[Ravo Himself]

I like mine. It's pretty cool on days when the fishing is good

[octanehi5]

I have two, Gives you a chance to catch those chew and screw fish,also made up a few homemade ones that work as well

[Murphyfisher]

Yeah I bought the ht ice riggers.  Pretty cheap, and instead of setting the hook, it has a clip that clips to the line and when a fish takes it, the flag rolls off a little swivel dolley and the flag goes up while your line is in free spool.  This creates no tension so the fish doesn't know it has a hook in its mouth. Those have been prettt good to me, even on the larger fish

[MJD3561]

I tried one for the first time at Highland last weekend. More of a novelty.
I had one strike, fish was on briefly, but came off before I got to the rod.
Be careful to set it up correctly (and with the correct rod!) - I broke one of my jigging rods because the bend stress was too strong. I ended up using a really old solid fiberglass rod and it works good.
Tough to hook fish while fishing minnows, as most fish will run and stop before swallowing the bait.

[octanehi5]

It all depends on the fish you are targeting , such as perch and sunnies not a good idea to use a jaw jacker. Walleye, Bass & Pike much bigger mouths ,works well,you will never get every fish that hits no matter what method  you use. The difference in the jaw jacker and the ice riggers, A jaw jacker is just that the fish bite and it tries to set the hook.were as the ice rigger to me is a glorified tip up. don't get me wrong I use both the jackers and tip ups when ice fishing.some lakes are just for jigging such as a lake like Oneida,hardly anyone uses tip ups on the lake. to bad we do not have a lake in Ct. that compares with a lake like Oneida

[MrFishfinger]

They work awesome for rainbows and small browns, small horizontal jigs tipped with 1/2(or less) of a mealworm.

[jammer icecube]

I have two and love them think the length of the rod and stiffness factor in for hook ups. Ive caught smallies and trout on Candlewood with them....good stuff. I use my ice riggers just to dead stick as I taped the flags down, the line always freezes to the side of the hole in very cold temps.

[Silverbullet555]

I have a couple. Mind you. I've been ice fishing 3 times so I am not even a novice at ice fishing yet. I am however an equipment junky. So I have a couple jaw jackets. So far I like them for rainbows on a lake. We can't use live bait so I don't have any issues with bait tripping them.

I set the triggers up a little tighter so it would take a good tug to set them up. Had 6 trips, hooked 4 and landed 3.

I have a couple of the HT ones with the flag. Haven't used those yet.  The other trout we caught was just sitting in a holder.

[lowaccord66]

Goofing around a couple weeks ago me and another shanty member had quite a laugh using one on bluegills just got kicks...we used a small jig with spikes set it up and let it rip...it was rather hilarious.