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If you don't know what the Jaw-Jacker is YOU need to learn..I just got my first one on Monday and tried it out on Tuesday..
Yep they do work and even on Pike at Yuba, I have made two trips to Yuba this year (2014) and with out the Jaw-Jacker I picked up at Fish Tech I don't think I would have got the fish I did..
I have had many bites but could not get a good hook set or would miss the bite all together, (must be old age) but every time the Jaw-Jacker went off I got a fish..
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I love those jaw jackers! It's amazing how much less effective I feel with my other rod now that I use one on my 2nd pole. Such a neat invention and it folds down small enough to fit in my bucket. Awesome! Sounds Like a great trip out there bassrods! glad you cold finally get on those pike. I'll be trying the same thing in the next week or two.
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Did you keep any of those? The one in your pic looks like a good eating size...
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on some smaller pike and if you're using a jig TIPPED with a piece of chub, than jackers are good for pike and luck helps too. but I never setup the jacker at yuba becuase my non jigging pole is a whole minnow and those pike will pull on a whole minnow and set that thing off before those hooks are in a proper place. I always set that drag super loose so they can chew on that minnow and run with it a bit before I set the hook, especially when using quickstrike rigs which is a great way for rigging whole minnows and pike fishing in general.
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I did keep the one..
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I was using a 5" chub on two poles and the only one that would hook the fish was the Jacker the bite was very lite and short or quick..
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really?? the pike we had hitting that day were hitting veary hard!! if they missed one pole they went to the next and tryed to pull it in.. [sly] but then we were not using whole chub ether..
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You must have had a better set up or better spot..
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maybe.. i seen ya down in the narrows, that's a area i like to hit too but i go about 200 yards west of there.. the last while tho it's not been as good as years past.. might be lower water..
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Am i missing something here. i thought in utah you couldnt use bait bigger than 1" by 1". I grew up pike fishing through the ice in n. idaho and we used smelt and tip-ups but i didnt think tip-ups would work here because of the bait laws. Any help here would be great.
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I guess it would help to just read the proclamation. I had heard someone say you couldnt use bait bigger then 1" in newton which is true but i guess this doesnt apply to other lakes in the state. Good to know. I answered my own question.
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the bait size is only for tiger musky... there is no size limit for bait used fishing for pike..
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Can't say for all Utah's lakes, but yeah, the Musky game at Pineview, used to have 'em at Newton.
There's all kinds of restrictions on live bait, or what you can use where, but except for musky haven't seen bait size.
I like a stinger on a minnow when hung from a jacker. Gotta dead stick the sucker.
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I see you got your answer..
Good luck..
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