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Offline tcool

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perch jigs
« on: Dec 27, 2007, 08:33 PM »
this maybe a dumb question but what the best/ your favorite perch jig. im in no way an expert but usually catch fish. right now i have some dots and some other ones from bass pro. they seem brighter than any lure id us in open water. i usually fish with perch eyes or minnows
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #1 on: Dec 27, 2007, 08:43 PM »
for jiging swedish pimples. For bait I use small minows.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #2 on: Jan 01, 2008, 04:08 PM »
When jigging for perch I like to use a vertical jig because they seem to be more attracted to it as crappie seem more attracted to a horizontal(talking about in which the direction if the hook point is facing. A variety of small jigs work great and my favorite thing is to tip with a mousie as the tails give a lot of action.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #3 on: Jan 03, 2008, 02:19 PM »
my #1 is a pimple with a perch eye.

my #2 is a good ole 1" tube jig with smelly jelly.  no bait.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #4 on: Jan 04, 2008, 02:05 PM »
Small white Swedish pimple or northlands forage minnow in hologram/glow. Vertical jigging is best in my books with the aforementioned tipped with a perch eye, pork belly or small hunk of salted shiner.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #5 on: Jan 04, 2008, 03:43 PM »
in real deep water[over 25 feet], i use a dropshot setup and any small glow jig with maggots or minnows. i let the rig touch bottom then pound it real hard stirring up the bottom. it seems to trigger the fish most of the time. when the perch are schooled and in a biting mood , just a plain gold aberdeen hook[ about size 8 ] will do the job.sinker on bottom and the jig about 6 inches from bottom. suspended perch are another story all together.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #6 on: Jan 04, 2008, 10:02 PM »
anything that glows tipped with a waxie

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #7 on: Jan 04, 2008, 10:12 PM »
my #1 is a pimple with a perch eye.

my #2 is a good ole 1" tube jig with smelly jelly.  no bait.

 Hey Baldy I notice you live in Albuquerque, NM, I have an in law that lives there and i know he doesn't fish down there he comes to NY to fish.Were in the world do you fish, let alone ice fish.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #8 on: Jan 08, 2008, 04:14 AM »
When jigging for perch I like to use a vertical jig because they seem to be more attracted to it as crappie seem more attracted to a horizontal(talking about in which the direction if the hook point is facing. A variety of small jigs work great and my favorite thing is to tip with a mousie as the tails give a lot of action.
I agree a vertical jig of any kind and tip it with a waxie or an eyeball once you've landed a couple!  PC
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #9 on: Jan 08, 2008, 04:40 AM »
my choice is a swedish pimple, or a small glow jig, either one as long as its tipped with a grub or two
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #10 on: Jan 08, 2008, 01:23 PM »
Hey Baldy I notice you live in Albuquerque, NM, I have an in law that lives there and i know he doesn't fish down there he comes to NY to fish.Were in the world do you fish, let alone ice fish.
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I mainly fly fish in the summer/spring/fall in small streams around here.  Closest is the Jemez drainage.  I do spend a lot of time in CO though as that is where I was born and raised.  Also boat in some of the lakes in southern NE.
For ice fishing in NM, we have a few lakes that freeze up regularly (Eagle Nest, Fenton, Heron).  I mainly Ice fish in Eagle Nest for perch.  I also take a few trips to CO each year to Ice Fish.
The water here is pretty scarce so I do what I can.  I love to fish and one day I'll get back to a state with water.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #11 on: Jan 09, 2008, 09:14 AM »
have to say if im using spikes i like to use a rat finkee purple
out in deep water ill use a small pimple tipped w/perch eyes

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #12 on: Jan 13, 2008, 06:40 AM »
Here's a cheep jig that works for me.Take a 1/2"long spinner blade and solder it to a long shank gold hook...attach perch eye and jig down off bottom not up.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #13 on: Jan 13, 2008, 06:49 AM »
           #1....  Maramooska  tip with two  waxies
           #2....  Forage minnow  bouncing off bottom 
           

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #14 on: Feb 03, 2008, 11:19 AM »
Size 2-3 sweedish pimple, if you go to size 3 or even size 4 it helps keep the smaller perch off your hook.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #15 on: Feb 05, 2008, 07:12 AM »
Caty glo-jigs tipped with spikes or mousies. And a small jigging rap.Also the berkley gulp stuff isn't too shabby either.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #16 on: Jan 15, 2009, 05:19 PM »
I like to use a Super Duper spoon with a perch eye or a maggot, real or artificial. If that's not working, I'll switch to the Pimple.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #17 on: Jan 28, 2009, 07:02 AM »
A big forged minnow any color that glows cant beat em!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #18 on: Jan 28, 2009, 06:43 PM »
I tie mine, pink and white always produce. Orange is my next choice.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #19 on: Jan 29, 2009, 06:00 PM »
bright demons from custom, big nasty looking heavy bibbits, whatever my wife is catching em on....
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #20 on: Jan 29, 2009, 08:46 PM »
Been doing fairly well with a Kodiak Pegasus spoon (love the clicking from the wings) with the thin tail end that's been cut off Gulp Alive Fish Fry this year. Usually a horizontal bait user, but whatever it takes. www.fishyum.com

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #21 on: Feb 01, 2009, 09:20 AM »
For years I have had the best luck with a half ounce bay de noc solid white pimple - with a chartreuse best tackle ditsi mitzi jig attached below - when attaching jig below I use a northlands stinger but I cut / snip the treble hook off and attach another little quick clip like the other end, bit of a process bending the clips and the expense but worth it for conveinience to change out the ditsi mitzi to a small green t-tot on cloudy overcast days.
Using the 1/2 oz. pimple allows for quick descent and flash attraction. Tipping ditsi mitzi with 1/2 mealworm to start until getting a perch eye. Now with the perch eye, when attaching take the eye and go through the back side where the vein / nerve hole is and centering through from of eyeball, less distortion to eye and slower release of fluids from eyeball membrane - bigger perch eye the better.     

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #22 on: Feb 01, 2009, 01:20 PM »
4mm fiskas gold w/ glow bead with 2 waxies or little atom micro nuggie
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #23 on: Feb 01, 2009, 07:45 PM »
My favourite is the smallest jigging rapala, in fire tiger or chartreuse. Approx 1" or so, I put an eye or piece of minnow meat on the tiny centre treble. I like them 'cuz it's easy to feel everything - even 30' down in a 30 KPH wind.

Teardrops are OK, but slow to get down and hard to feel well unless you're in a shack or there is no wind...


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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #24 on: Feb 02, 2009, 02:41 PM »
Silver Swedish Pimple with spikes and perch eye :D

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #25 on: Feb 04, 2009, 08:25 AM »
I have to make a correction to my previous post, it is a Best Tackle mitzi ditzi - not ditsi mitzi. Stocked up on them a few years ago and haven't bought any for a while, at Pokeys Tackle shop yesterday, found them and now the correction.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #26 on: Feb 04, 2009, 09:12 AM »
A lot of jigs work well for perch but the best 3 ive found are forage minnow, genz worm and small swedish pimples,a lot of people swear by hali's and teardrops as well.
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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #27 on: Feb 06, 2009, 05:29 PM »
I've been having great success using the forage minnow.  The swedish pimple not so much.  I'm going to downsize and try the pimple again.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #28 on: Feb 07, 2009, 12:31 PM »
are people using the swedish pimple ataching the bait to the pimple on a single hook or just using the pimple to attract? what size pimple.

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Re: perch jigs
« Reply #29 on: Feb 07, 2009, 07:13 PM »
1/64 horizontal livebait jig in lime/chartreuse (produced most jumbos for me) Cabelas stopped offering them(?)

1/16 Forage Minnow Spoon in Perch

#8 Forage Minnow Fry jig in Rainbow Trout in clear water
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