swedish pimples

[LilWeezy]

i live in Maine and where i live wax worms are hard to come buy can you use this jig without live bait or anyother tips for this lure

[pete/ny]

I use either minnows or just the heads and do well on perch.

[LilWeezy]

i hear perch eyes work as well how are these lures on trout i invested in these lures and i hope they work not may spots for good fish where i live

[StingingLips]

I do pretty good on brookies with the swedish pimples

[#1bassfisher]

:-)

[fishingsurveyor]

You will love them for jigging.   I cut a small piece of the belly meat the white stuff and tip the pimple small minnas  smelts all work great. You know what they say once you gone swedish you never go back

[LilWeezy]

when you guys talk about tipping with minnow s do u mean to use live minnows or smelts

[slt]

when you guys talk about tipping with minnow s do u mean to use live minnows or smelts

I use the floaters that sometimes turn up in the bait pail, or a dead bait from a hit and run flag. If nothing is dead I find the smallest bait in the bucket and use that

[LilWeezy]

i like the dead minnow idea maybe i can talk the baitshop into giving me there floaters

[MGK]

Smelt works really well

[LilWeezy]

what color attractors work the best yellow or red and treble or single hook my target species is trout brookies or brown

[dylan8351]

I've always used eyes as soon as I can. Nothing works better for me! Smelt fillets or heads work well for me also

[keepah seekah]

what color attractors work the best yellow or red and treble or single hook my target species is trout brookies or brown

experiment and find out. depends on conditions, weather, barometric pressure, body of water, etc.

[rockhound57]

what color attractors work the best yellow or red and treble or single hook my target species is trout brookies or brown

Check the rulebook, but I believe if you add bait, it can only have one point (no trebles)

[LilWeezy]

i think ur rite about the treble hook and live bait thing i just got into jigging i used to just use the minnow tip up set up but i always want to get better at what i do ill look at the law book

[Mainehazmt]

that has always been a confusing thing  but I remove the trebles just in case

[TinyTim]

How is this any different from putting a shiner or sucker on a treble hook under a trap?

[fishfreely]

thats exactly right you are allowed 1 of any hook but only one
 

[polartippah]

After reading the regs, I would say that you can use trebble hooks.  A trebble hook is a single hook with more than one point.  You are not allowed to have more than one hook, or one lure, or one fly on a line.  They don't want you to be able to catch more than one fish at a time on a single line.  I couldn't find anything about not using trebble hooks with live bait in Maine.

http://www.maine.gov/ifw/laws_rules/fishing/pdfs/Laws&Definitions.pdf

http://www.maine.gov/ifw/laws_rules/fishing/pdfs/LawsPertainingtoBait.pdf


I use the "jigging rap" lure a lot.  It's sold all over Maine.  It has 5 points.  I hope it's legal.

[TinyTim]

We've had this discussion a few times, but the law don't read like it should.
I asked a warden if using a stinger hook in addition to a treble was legal, he said yes, as long as both hooks are in the same bait. 

[ctibbetts]

You can use a piece of work or crawler to tip them- Wally world usually has them year round.  As far as meal worms or wax worms, if you have a pet store in the area, you can get them there.  They use them to feed lizards and turtles and stuff like that.

[fishermanna82]

i would use a minnow head  or a live minnow. some time in some conditions they work great plain to.

[mattg]

for perch i put several maggots on each of the trebles, or a sing meal worm wrapped around all three.  i use minnows on these lures for walleye, pike will take it too