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Suggest spending Sat am 12:01 -5am jigging for smelt along the beach and or in front of the brook and thensetting up with smelt. Arkansas shiners are not worth a turd. Crawlers & jigging are a better option.
Seymour grab your flasher and jig for the lakers, Swedish pimples with a little bit crawler on the hook.You will have to move around some until you find them but usually on or off shelves is a good place to start.
x2 can't remove smelt from one body of water to the next dead or alive.
might hit up caspian a few days after the season opens up i really wanna get a lake trout i tried all last winter and all i got were pike (in 50 feet of water)!!!
where did that happen?
I prefer 3/4 ounce bucktails, 1oz or 1/2 will work too. You want enough weight so you can fell the jig when you left it off the bottom if 40-80 feet of water. I find that on Seymour I catch about 15 lakers jigging for everyone I catch on a tip-up. As people said before if you do set-up tip-ups, then you really should use smelt as bait, as lakers really don't like shiners on tip-ups (you will still catch them just very few and far between). For cut bait on a bucktail jig you can use shiners or smelt it does't seem to make a significant difference. I hope this helps and good luck.