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PICKING APART COVER WITH WEEDLESS JIGHEADS

How to Go Weedless
Overstreet prefers the weedless Crappie guide Gerald Overstreet with a
heads because he often finds more and crappie taken from cover in the Alabama
larger crappie in the thickest part of the River.
cover, and by avoiding hang-ups, he’s able
to spend more time catching fish. “I use
B&B Weedless Jigs and Heads, 1/16 oz.
if the fish are shallower than 15 feet and a limb. The base of the tree can be fished
1/8 oz. if they’re deeper,” said Overstreet. thoroughly in one or two casts, and after
“I look at the tree and position myself at that I’ll pitch into the middle of the tree, the
the end of the branches with the trunk of thicker the better, and let my jig fall through
the tree pointed toward me, and I cast up the branches, slowly retrieving it after each
to the base of the tree and let the jig fall time it stops. Once I’ve covered the base
to the bottom. Once it’s there, I reel slowly and the middle, I’ll fish the deeper limbs
over the next branch, letting the jig fall under the boat, usually by just vertical
after pulling over every limb. Most of the jigging.”
bites occur right as the jig is pulling over

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