How To Rig and Fish A Shiner Minnow / How To Catch Bass

Fishing a live shiner is a deadly technique for catching bass and more fish, espiecally in the south US.

To Rig a shiner use a 1 awt or 2 awt hook, tie to your fish line. Put a split shot sinker ten to twelve inches from the hook. Use any bobber type , you need a pretty good size boober.

Rig the bobber 2.5 to 3 feet from the hook. Hooking the shine. There are three ways to hook a shiner.

1) Thru the lips.

2) Thru the back

3) Thru the tail. Fishing the shiner rig.

Fish the weed edge such as lily pads and fish open spots in the lily pads or any type of weeds. When a bass hits a shiner , you usually know it , the bobber will go down quickly. If you hook a shiner in the tail, the shiner will tend to want to swim up into cover. Say you are fishing the edge of the weed bed, a hooked shiner will want to go into the weeds. Also note you can tell if a bass is after your shiner because the shiner will be swimming more. Shiner fishing is a technique that you can to your arsenal to help you catch more bass.

How to Catch Crappie In Fall Deep Water

How to catch fish in the fall. In the fall your crappies will go to deep areas in your lake in preparation for the winter. Crappie


will stay in the deep water all winter. By deep water we are taking deep water adjacent
to the shallows were the crappie were earlier in the year spawning. The depth for basin crappie are 30-40-50 feet. To locate fall deep water crappies use your lcr depth finder to located the crappie
which will be near the bottom. Most time you will see pods of bait fish above the crappie on the bottom.
When you spot fish throw out a marker bouy. You can use a 1/16 oz. Or you can use a
an ice fishing jig bait and has two hooks on both ends and a treble hook beneath. The metal loop
where you tie the line is in the middle of the back.  When Working a stamdard jigor ice . Let your bait to the bottom,a few inches. Then jig a few times. Pause and reel up another another few inches. Repeat the jigging motion pause and
then do it again. Try  a jig  method to help you catch more crappie in the fall.
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