Glojig - Update

[AquaMan]

Glojig - gimick or gift?

After getting the house setup this weekend, I tied one of these on to my rod (Pink, Constant ON) and caught a fish as it decended. Wow, I thought, this really does work! I set my other rods with gold jigs and caught fish as they decended too. OK, I thought, lucky me. The fish happened to be sitting where we set up. Time will tell, right? Well, the gold jigs outfished everything Friday AND Saturday. We put 40 fish on the ice in those 2 days. 60% were 1-2 pound saugers. A few good 3# eyes and we released about 30 Walleyes that were 8-10" long. It shows a good year class coming up.

As for the Glojig...it catches fisherman. The light fades and goes out after about 3 minutes. The batteries are impossible to keep dry and the contacts need adjusting after every hit. We caught fewer fish on that jig and we did work it hard. Tried the yellow one with same results. Plain gold jighead and a minnow was the ticket.

16 Mile Reef, Armeson's Reef and the flats in between were doing pretty good for a few groups. Majority of fisherman were slow on Saturday, toooo much traffic on the ice. Father-in-law collected $ from 200 vehicles by 10AM and the Warroad 500 sled race drew 100's more. Get there during the week and fishing is usually pretty good.

That's the update!

AquaMan~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--- "It all begins and ends at the water's edge"

[Tommy Mac]

Thanks for the update AquaMan. Kind of dissapointed to hear the you had problems with the jigs. Guess I will look for Northlands glow tubes and give them a try on my trip up to LOTW.
Thanks again. TM

[AquaMan]

TM, get yourself some of the teardrop shinny gold jigs. Hook the minnow through the tail and the eyes come to feed like the dinner bell rang at the mess hall at summer camp. :-)

Where are you going to fish up there?


AquaMan~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--- "It all begins and ends at the water's edge"

[Tommy Mac]

AquaMan,
I am not sure just where I will go out from. I will make note of the spots you mentioned and probably try them. You say your father in law runs a landing? I plan on going up sometime next week (during the week). I don't know if I have any of those gold jigs you are talking about. Do they have the Kahile type hook? I do have some gold fireballs. I have had good luck with them through the ice. What do you think? Later. TM

[AquaMan]

Yeah, Babler's Plowed Road on the right side of the tar road right before you get to Arneson's Resort. $5 per car.

Anything gold. Mine are Northlands just because I like Northland. I am not familiar with the Kahlie hook, but these have a pregnant "J", if that helps.


Good luck. Yesterday would have been hot, right before the storm. Figures! ;-)


AquaMan~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--- "It all begins and ends at the water's edge"

[REW]

I was fishing Winni this last weekend with friends.
I used several examples of the new Northland - light stick.
It is a light stick about 1 inch long - that will glow for about 8 hours.

The red one glows for about 14 hours.
Very bright -- almost too bright in my opinion.

Bottom line - the glow jig attracted lots of Eel Pout. I was using this jig in the house and caught all the Pout one morning. I left another jig with a Genz worm on it (glow model ) that you light up with a flash -- and caught no Pout, but lots of Perch and Walleye on it.

So, I am tending to agree with you; if you want a glow jig - get one of the painted jigs that glow with the light of a flash - and recharge as required. It seems to me -- that a very very slight glow is typically more effective than a bright glow.

Take care

REW

[Pitts]

Hey guys I'm back after upgrading my computer for the last 2 weeks we had a problem with the new graphics card.
We hit LOW last Sat. but the fishing was kinda slow 10 sauger in 5 hours mostly on silver and gold jigs or teardrops. We finished the day at Red and they bit so fast we limited in a short time. After dark the guys without glow caught 0 so that is a necessity. Most fish liked pink and white or plain white and on Mon. we tried it again but it was really slow until dark then they would only bite a really charged glow (use a million spot) and it was still kinda slow anyway but the guy with the green culumn stick caught lots of pout like 7 to only one other on glows. What a riot we had teasing him LOL.
See ya Sat.

Pitts