A Preference for Jigging

[Bruce Litton]

Originally Posted by icebadger

Bruce i have been using rippin raps and jigging raps near structure and have only been catching perch. It is difficult to keep my canoe steady over the structure that i want to fish, if the canoe moves too much the line scopes out away from the canoe and i have a hard time seeing it on my sonar. those blade baits are heaver as well as the larger jiggin raps but you have to be careful not to get hung up that can get expensive.

Ice Badger, 12 years ago in Maine, we fished Green Lake from a canoe rigged with a portable Humminbird & we located lake trout 63 feet down. We got Kastmasters among them--never got hit--but man, I had to backpaddle the canoe as my son jigged and vice versa. It was really hard positioning. in the canoe, but we did get jigs down there.