03-22-2015, 03:56 PM
~ typical. The further south one gets the cleaner the water gets.
Generally speaking jigs are big fish baits. If one is swinging a jig on Mead one is really limiting what one may catch. I have one tied on all the time but the only fish I have ever caught on it have been 4+ pounders. Nice, but far and few in between. Most of mine are 3/4oz. Last year I watched several smaller fish grab it and run. They never made it in the boat. Tossed something smaller to them when they returned and they made it in the boat.
I do ok tossing a finesse swim jig now and then. 1/4oz with a small offering tied on as a trailer. I use something like that verse a spinnerbait in the shallows.
The only plastic bite I had yesterday, other than dropshot, was on a SK craw. (I usually run these as trailers on jigs). I had it rigged alone on a shakey head. He had it and ran but it came back to me minus one craw.
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Generally speaking jigs are big fish baits. If one is swinging a jig on Mead one is really limiting what one may catch. I have one tied on all the time but the only fish I have ever caught on it have been 4+ pounders. Nice, but far and few in between. Most of mine are 3/4oz. Last year I watched several smaller fish grab it and run. They never made it in the boat. Tossed something smaller to them when they returned and they made it in the boat.
I do ok tossing a finesse swim jig now and then. 1/4oz with a small offering tied on as a trailer. I use something like that verse a spinnerbait in the shallows.
The only plastic bite I had yesterday, other than dropshot, was on a SK craw. (I usually run these as trailers on jigs). I had it rigged alone on a shakey head. He had it and ran but it came back to me minus one craw.
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