Bait pods on your flasher/fish finder

[fullerbn]

All you guys who jig for lakers or any other species for that matter, when you see a cloud of bait come through on your fish finder what do you do with your jig? do you jig in amongst the bait? Over it? Under it? I usually pull my jig up just above it and have had lakers streak right through the bait to get my jig. Just curious how others handle this situation.

[ItsmeitsmeitsJSG]

I've been putting mine right in the thick of it, only one laker so far tho

[Running for flags]

Prob better above or below injured Fish always go first

[zwiggles]

I have been told when a school of baitfish “disappear” that a trout will often be in the area. For this reason I would think above or below the school would be best.

[BrookieSlayer99]

Stay above them because lakers will spook the school and chase whatever bait is left. If you are in the thick of the school it could come up to your lure without you knowing, then go back down to bottom.

[fullerbn]

Prob better above or below injured Fish always go first

that was my thoughts too.

[Dipstick]

I hold my jig above, pour a coffee and wait for bait to disappear. As soon as they do, drop it. If bait persist for more than 20? Minutes they are no larger predators in the area.

[Arctic Addict]

I clip the tail off my bait to make it struggle more.  Natural selection

[fishermantim]

I agree, you can jig all you want while the bait is there, but the real work comes when the bait takes off!

To give a little comparison, when I first started jigging, I had read and heard about the "run and gun" anglers that would move from hole to hole to follow the fish.
I started finding that when I was jigging and the fish suddenly stopped biting, and disappeared from my fish finder, that if I kept jigging awhile longer I could get a decent bass of pickerel to hit my small jig.
My reasoning was that the original fish, usually perch and sunfish, would scatter when a larger predator showed up.
The predator would then focus on my jig and "Whammo!"...fish on.

Seems when suspended bait pods come through the thought process should be similar.

[fullerbn]

What I've been doing is jigging above the bait and if they stay for an extended period I just move to another hole,  I was just curious what others did, thanks for the input.

[FishGuy603]

What Dipstick said. I also usually jig below the school so that I can see chases.

[DConICE]

Ran into this a few times yesterday on Winni - I stayed right in it and below i with no success - guess I'll have to try above it as mentioned here - thanks for the post.