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Might have to convince my buddy to dig the boat out so we can go jig lakers. I have never done it off the boat suppose you would have to wait for a really calm no wind day to keep your bait in the cone. Iv drop shotted for smallies in deep water with the finer before suppose lakers would be similar.
Down where I live I jig open water on the NYC Reservoirs for lakers and simply increase the size of the jig by 1/2 to 1 full oz to help keep the jig on the sonar in choppy/moving water. If it's dead calm, the vexilars work great, if not which is 90% of the time, we'll use regular sonar (Lowrance Elite 5 and 7) and just crank up the sensitivity and chart speed and you'll be able to easily track your jigs! Really cool watching a nice arch suddenly turn skyward to meet up with your descending Jig!!! Also, Power Pro Depth Hunter braid is great for open water jigging. It is metered just Leadcore with 4 colors; each color equals 25' and within each color, white hash marks signify every 5' of depth within the color so you'll know exactly where you are if you lose the jig on screen! I can tell you with confidence that the action on open water can at times be as much fun as the ice! You're constantly moving and jigging fresh locations which is along the same line of thinking as we do on the ice!!I'll be jigging one of my local spots on Thursday since winter apparently is over down here! Lol! MK
I'm still holding out hope for a cold snap that gives us a few weeks over perch.
Oh no bigred has some more cold air graphics
LMAO....Stacy his weather lady....bahahahahah... .or is it Amanda... Cheryl I can't remember...
What does she say Lance???
Shipoffools my fins made it to the playoffs this year... they didn't show up but they were there. Anything is possible it better freeze I gotta see a laker scream up on my new striker 7 so I can rewind and watch it again and again
I'll bring this up when I see you over deep water . Thanks again for that day a few years back when you showed me how to do our thing without training wheels, that day was a game changer for me
If it happened last year, I have confidence it'll happen this year too. Until then I'll keep making a fool of myself, muttering random stuff like somebody's jacker just went off....
Don't worry Jon I'll join you in looking foolish. It's a specialty of mine!
My head's foggier than the weather......
You did let him retrieve one of your flags this year....he owed ya one.