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New Hampshire => Ice Fishing New Hampshire => Topic started by: bassin212 on Dec 08, 2018, 04:34 PM
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I was just curious of those of you who use Jaw Jackers for Bows, Brookies and Browns. what type of hook and set up? I ran mine today with 1/8 Oz Painted Jig Heads with minnows hooked through the nose. Was wondering if you think the painted Jig Heads are shying the trout away?
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I typically rig mine like I would a tip up. #8 hook shiner hooked in the back and a split shot 8” above it on the leader.
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I use a red #10 gamakatsu w/a dilly to cove up the eyelet of the hook tipped with a salmon egg
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Are you guys using circle hooks? Wouldn’t that work opposite against the hook setting action of a jaw jacker?
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I have found #10 hook with salmon eggs work great for bows, I have also had good luck with a small hook and worms, the circle(octopus hooks) work great for tip ups but reg hooks work better for jaw jackers since 99% of them get hook in the lip. I’ve only found shiners to work for other species on jaw jackers.
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You don’t want to use circle hooks on the jawjacker. I use #8-#12 salmon egg hooks on mine, whether I’m using eggs, or worms, or shiners/smelt. I’ve tried “baitholder” hooks, and they work ok, but the egg hooks seem to work the best for me.
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thanks everyone, definitely was not going to use circle hooks. i've taken the jig heads off and put on some egg holder hooks with split shots.
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I use a red #10 gamakatsu w/a dilly to cove up the eyelet of the hook tipped with a salmon egg
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Don't overlook power bait either. Couple spots we catch bows, prefer power bait over dillies and other live bait.
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If I were you I would use gamagatzu octpous hooks. Razor sharp and they're always hooked in the lip. I think that sometimes normal baitholder hooks miss fish if the fish hits the bait at a weird angle or something.
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thanks everyone, changed it up and definitely got more hits
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Tungsten jig with powerbait
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I've never used powerbait on jawjackers before. How does it compare to smelt/salmon eggs because that's all I use for bows.
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I've never used powerbait on jawjackers before. How does it compare to smelt/salmon eggs because that's all I use for bows.
thats usually all i catch my bows on is powerbait usually pink and most on jackers
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I've never used powerbait on jawjackers before. How does it compare to smelt/salmon eggs because that's all I use for bows.
Last year they hammered the Rainbow colored powerbait. Broke a nice fish off, rehooked and baited and half an hour later the same tip up went up and I landed the fish. It had a second line in its mouth. It was the one that broke off. Both times it hit the rainbow colored powerbait.
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How do you rig the power bait in the tip up? Weightless or with a split shot, I’ve tried the eggs but doesn’t seem to work well someone told me to use a split shot about a ft off the hook and use floating eggs same with the powerbait?
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How do you rig the power bait in the tip up? Weightless or with a split shot, I’ve tried the eggs but doesn’t seem to work well someone told me to use a split shot about a ft off the hook and use floating eggs same with the powerbait?
That should work, but I also am going to try it on a small tungsten jig to see if that works better this year. Weight inside the ball of power bait kind of idea.
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ive done the same thing as splitshot but i used a swivel about 8 inches away keeps the line away from the bait. also we fished a pond last year and had about 8 traps out between 2 of us and we caught 7 rainbows and not one came on a tip up all were caught on 2 jackers pretty shallow water so my best guess is they could see the reels on the tip ups.
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I would just use a heavy tungsten jighead and skip the split shot