Author Topic: How many jigs do you put on one pole? (Read 4211 times)

kb · « **on:** Dec 17, 2008, 05:16 PM »

How many jigs do you put on one pole at a time? How do you rig them?

Thanks,

kb

Blaine · « **Reply #1 on:** Dec 17, 2008, 05:18 PM »

Sometimes as many as 3, that's the limit here in CT. I tip them with spikes...

perchkid · « **Reply #2 on:** Dec 17, 2008, 05:18 PM »

1 to 5 depending on the fish.... vertical rigged...

Melbs7 · « **Reply #3 on:** Dec 17, 2008, 07:08 PM »

3 is the limit here in WI as well. I rarely if ever use more than one though. I will put out multiple poles or tip-ups though.

princecraft · « **Reply #4 on:** Dec 17, 2008, 07:11 PM »

I personally like to use only one. I have tried 2 and lost more fish than I wanted to. I have heard that the people fishing for smelt use as many as the state allows.

vermonner · « **Reply #5 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:19 AM »

Jigging for perch in >20 FOW I use 2. Vertical rigged and staggered. That is, one tied to 1 foot of mono so it sticks off to the side and one on the end of the line

pooley · « **Reply #6 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 07:21 AM »

i hear people are using sabiki rigs, shortened to 5 hooks.

captain54 · « **Reply #7 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 10:42 AM »

ONE,did use two years ago,but the bottom jig did all the work,top jig did not get many fish and caused trouble,hang on bottom of hole causing lost fish and tangles,that where not needed.

Buck762 · « **Reply #8 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 04:10 PM »

I normally use one jig. Fished with a buddies uncle for perch one day and he had 4 tear drops tied onto one line, each with two waxies each. I'm not sure how legal that was though

tjsnipehunter · « **Reply #9 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 08:09 PM »

Quote from: captain54 on Dec 18, 2008, 10:42 AM

ONE,did use two years ago,but the bottom jig did all the work,top jig did not get many fish and caused trouble,hang on bottom of hole causing lost fish and tangles,that where not needed.

Pretty much the same reason I use only one 99% of the time. Way back before I used a flasher it was sometimes nice to cover a little more area but that was about the only advantage I saw.

Tim

DaWaitaz · « **Reply #10 on:** Dec 18, 2008, 08:11 PM »

A guy walked up to our shanties last year on Gogebic.....two or three guys in my group talked to him a while.
I was being anti-social which is rare for me. After he left they told me what he was perch fishing with.

A casting Rapala body.....with all of the hooks cut off. He threaded three dropper lines through the body vertically, one near the head, another in the middle another near the end. Not sure what the dropper lines were, mono or ? He affixed some type of eyelet onto the top middle that enabled him to jig it vertically.

On each line he had a small ice jig with a wiggler for bait. Said it was the only thing he used....swore by them.
seems kinda kooky to me....but usually guys don't use what doesn't work. Or he was shamming us which is possible..I've come to the conclusion that most people who enjoy ice fishing also enjoy a good joke.

Which reminds me....I'm going up with a crew this January...I'm going to rig up two of the most ridiculous, outlandish and craziest lures I can think of... Like a pike spoon with a rubber worm on a spinner jig type of silly concoction. Soon as I catch a fish...this one guy I go with will ask me "what did you catch that with!!! Do you have another one ...CAN I HAVE ONE PLEEEEESE...." So I'll say I caught it with this wappy-dappy-thing-of-a-mother....see if HE bites!!!! I'll let him have it.

Van_Cleaver · « **Reply #11 on:** Dec 19, 2008, 10:18 PM »

The only problem is; he might be blessed with the luck of a fool, and end up catching a trophy on the crazy lure. Then who will be laughing?

icefisher-45 · « **Reply #12 on:** Dec 20, 2008, 10:50 AM »

I usually use one

panfishman13 · « **Reply #13 on:** Dec 20, 2008, 11:22 PM »

two.

usually a lighter one like a marmooska 2-3" above either a jigging spoon or some other heavier jig

DaWaitaz · « **Reply #14 on:** Dec 21, 2008, 08:31 AM »

Quote from: Van_Cleaver on Dec 19, 2008, 10:18 PM

The only problem is; he might be blessed with the luck of a fool, and end up catching a trophy on the crazy lure. Then who will be laughing?

I thought of that

...with my luck he WOULD catch some gigantic fish on it, or numerous fish knowing him.

Madpuppy · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 01, 2009, 08:27 AM »

I use one. Like ealier post I've never had much luck on the upper jig. The law here is two. I will use 2 in summer for cat though.

john t. · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 01, 2009, 08:34 AM »

2 most of the time.

Kevin23 · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 02, 2009, 11:50 AM »

2 in the summer for walleye, 1 through the ice.

fishermanna82 · « **Reply #18 on:** Dec 14, 2010, 02:34 PM »

slipperybob · « **Reply #19 on:** Dec 14, 2010, 03:16 PM »

Quote from: DaWaitaz on Dec 21, 2008, 08:31 AM

I thought of that ...with my luck he WOULD catch some gigantic fish on it, or numerous fish knowing him.

LOL's every year I come up with a weird idea concoction sort of mod to a lure and test it out until the fish will laugh at me silly. Now I've toned things down and actually come up with some successful garaged ice fishing lures.

Swift · « **Reply #20 on:** Dec 14, 2010, 03:19 PM »

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