Panfishin´where there is none...

[Bucho]

Hi,

I finally managed to get some "peacefull" fish on panfish-sized jigs. Forced myself to it since I find the idea as such interesting. These are white bream, a carp-related species which is hardly ever targeted with anything else than fly maggots(if at all).

Got lots of the inevidable small perch with them. Was hoping for specimen roach which didn´t get hooked though. A smaller #8 hook and less flashy dubbing will hopefully do better.

 

[Jig Man]

Thats a good lookin jig, and it seems the fishies like it to. The top one looks like bait, and the bottom one looks like din din...

 

[Bucko]

silver ones look like what we call shiners. the perch you have there is neat. amazing how similar they are to our perch with only subtle differences. well done.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Out my way silver fish are generally the best eating. Those bream look like inverterbrate suckers, amazing what a micro Boolie will entice, eh? They look built for a spirited fight, for their size?

Ah, so the perch nursery is upriver? Are there any bigger ones around?

 

[plateboater]

Nice pics......sweet jig. What size blade on the boolie?

 

[StumpHunter]

Nice jig and a good catch.

 

[Bucho]

The stream is actually a short connection within a system of lakes. At the moment it is highly frequented by migrating cyprindes like the ones in the picture, but also perch and massive carp. There are bigger perch up to come. I am particuarly interested in jigs for those "invertebrate suckers" since the lake system is also populated with whitefish, which are being considered "uncatchable" around here.
From my fishing up in finland, I have learned that the only difference between them and whitefish ist the prefered water temperture/depth. Debveloping a jig that catches both would be something. These cyprinides are not being eaten unless you have any other foodsource around but even the few pics I posted so far have already risen a few eyebrows in the hard spending, trend setting, C&R practicing tackel junky community here. Whitefish on their part - best stuff there is around.

The jig is a bismouth based 1/16th chub jig with the smallest blade on the marked, I think fly prop Size S or a 00 and a size 11 bead. Its nothing but a few straws of flash, dubbing and the prop, held together with fluorescent hot orange thread. The one in the pic uses flash dubbing, but I think a niclely combed transluescent hare wool based blend will work better for this purpose.

 

[Pup]

Interesting discussion and catches too.

 

[Bucho]

That´s more like it: Roach (rutilus rutilus), the one I was after. Funny how a simple Change of dubbing from Flash to hare´s wool can make the difference between 2 closely related species. Made a Batch of differnt jigs to calibrate - less seems to be more. Both UV coated heads and too much red FAILED. The lower left was the winner, even better after I clipped off the red yarn tail. Wished I had made a plane headed one with even more dubbing and less red.

 

[plateboater]

Now those are killer!