Micros For Macro Panfish

[Slip Sinker]

Where are you when it comes to fishing with Micro Tungsten jigs and micro plastics?... is it a fad?

Great article on ice panfishing in Jan-Feb 2015 issue of In-Fisherman

Don’t forget alot of these ice fishing tips are some-what applicable in the open water vertical jigging!

[Andy is OptiMystic]

I just mentioned in another thread that I will be deep jigging for crappie and white perch this weekend and don't expect other panfish, but maybe I should try some of these tiny jigs also. I will have to look around at BPS tonight. Heading over there as I was given some gift cards...

[Slip Sinker]

Andy another technique you might want to try along with deep jigging is drop shotting or even microshotting.

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[Andy is OptiMystic]

I thought about drop shot but my concern was that one of the primary reasons for going so small was the slow fall. 

[Slip Sinker]

in my experience a higher percentage of strikes occur as the bait is moved up and away from the fish.

[Andy is OptiMystic]

I will give it a shot (pun intended) this weekend. Where I will be and with the forecast, it is likely the overabundant white perch will make me feel like a genius no matter what I do. They have gotten so overpopulated that the regs changed last year and you are even allowed to net them.

[Slip Sinker]

pun accepted ... lol

last year i saw a vid on WFN of these guys vertically jigging little silver spoons with nightcrawler bits ... snapping them offf the bottom and catching scads of the white perch.... i have never caught or seen one. and of course it was a warm weather pattern.

[Andy is OptiMystic]

The WP blitz here in the late summer and early fall. It is pretty cool to have the water boiling all around you and catch a fish on nearly every cast, even if they are mostly small. But they compete with the young crappie and bass for food and are multiplying way too fast. They are a good fish down toward the coast. We should have left well enough alone...

[carl hendrix]

hey Andy--  bet if you asked some of these guys  they would be glad to donate you a few to try out!!

[Andy is OptiMystic]

Might get to that. I found some tiny stuff but not a lot of variety. I found some "trout magnet" soft plastics in the very tiny size. I got one little package of white. I got a couple of 10 packs of 1/64 marabou jigs, one pack in white and one in chartreuse. So this weekend I plan to fish a UL with 4# with the light stuff and a light rod with Nanofil jigging a blade. Right now the forecast is sunny and 60 with slightly falling pressure and little wind. Even if it is dead calm I will likely need some shot to get the light stuff down 25'.

[Joe Angelucci]

Nice to see the trend going small . This does work for open water

[Slip Sinker]

Thanks Joe... I did well fishing small all year

[Tony Livingston]

Micro huh? Where have I heard this before....lol

Guys looking for small stuff...I find I have better luck ordering micro jigs online. Not too many brick and mortar shops stock much when you get below 1/64 oz, unless you're in the ice belt. And, small means just that...a 1/64 oz jig is huge in comparison. Once again, this is where that expensive tungsten really shines. You can stay small, and still have the weight you need to get down to the fish. And yes, I fish ice jigs year-round also.

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