Jackin or Jacking 2025
Harold Scoggins reply :
I was finally able to get out today and get a line wet after four weeks of on and off rain and cold fronts. Nice and calm and 67. Anyway, I was jacking a crank (T-rigged) and got a couple of weird looks from anglers on another boat. Does anyone else use this method? I was shown this method by a friend on Ikehara Lake in Japan several years ago and it works.
Bluebasser86 reply :
A T-rigged crank??
Scott F reply :
What is jacking? And how do you T-rig a crank bait?
Sam reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 7:06 AM, Scott F said:What is jacking? And how do you T-rig a crank bait?
X2
Mobasser reply :
Are you talking about removing hooks from a crankbaits, and replacing the rear hook with a single worm hook? Never heard of this either?
OCdockskipper reply :
Please don't tell me you only fish retention ponds...
WRB reply :
I think it's adding a sliding bullet weight in front of the lure.
Tom
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 7:01 AM, Bluebasser86 said:A T-rigged crank??
On 10/30/2018 at 7:06 AM, Scott F said:What is jacking? And how do you T-rig a crank bait?
On 10/30/2018 at 7:11 AM, Sam said:X2
You peg a weight just in front of the split ring on the front of a crankbait. When you cast, you let the crank dive nose first to the bottom, when it comes in contact with the bottom the crank will actually twitch a little. After a few seconds, you quickly pull up on the rod and then allow the bait to dive again, reeling up slack as you go. I only caught a couple dinks today, but I've landed nice ones in the past using this method I was shown.
On 10/30/2018 at 7:57 AM, WRB said:I think it's adding a sliding bullet weight in front of the lure.
Tom
I've never tried letting the weight slide freely, I was shown to peg the weight.
scaleface reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:01 AM, Harold Scoggins said:
You peg a weight just in front of the split ring on the front of a crankbait. When you cast, you let the crank dive nose first to the bottom, when it comes in contact with the bottom the crank will actually twitch a little. After a few seconds, you quickly pull up on the rod and then allow the bait to dive again, reeling up slack as you go. I only caught a couple dinks today, but I've landed nice ones in the past using this method I was shown.
I can see that working .
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:04 AM, scaleface said:I can see that working .
It actually does. This friend that showed me this told me that it was becoming a popular technique there at the time.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I've heard of it being used for bedding fish with a heavy weight, never heard it called that though.
WRB reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:01 AM, Harold Scoggins said:
You peg a weight just in front of the split ring on the front of a crankbait. When you cast, you let the crank dive nose first to the bottom, when it comes in contact with the bottom the crank will actually twitch a little. After a few seconds, you quickly pull up on the rod and then allow the bait to dive again, reeling up slack as you go. I only caught a couple dinks today, but I've landed nice ones in the past using this method I was shown.
I've never tried letting the weight slide freely, I was shown to peg the weight.
Pegging the weight prevents the weight from killing a deep divers action, it's similar to C-rigging a crank bait, the leader allows the lure to wobble freely.
Tom
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:11 AM, Bluebasser86 said:I've heard of it being used for bedding fish with a heavy weight, never heard it called that though.
I guess that would work as well, I've only used it late summer and fall. I think that is what he called it, my Japanese is not that good.
WRB reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:11 AM, Bluebasser86 said:I've heard of it being used for bedding fish with a heavy weight, never heard it called that though.
That was called a Dukie rig using a heavy sliding weight and floating big crankbait in a bed, then yo yo up and down. Always considered a treble hook lure in a bed as equal to snagging the bass.
Tom
Gundog reply :
I know when I was a kid we use to put a swivel up the line from a Original Rapala Floater and put a weight in front of the swivel just to get it down further.
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 7:54 AM, OCdockskipper said:Please don't tell me you only fish retention ponds...
Ikehara Reservoir, one of the biggest retention ponds in Japan.
Sam reply :
Anything goes in bass fishing.
New technique that we all need to try next year.
Thanks for sharing.
Swbass15 reply :
What style of crank are you using? I’m really interested in trying this with my square bills at depths I can’t hit without a weight.
tander reply :
Or you you can buy some of these cranks. https://corestrikebaits.myshopify.com/
Troy85 reply :
Interesting. I'll have to keep this in mind and try it some time.
BassNJake reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:59 AM, Gundog said:I know when I was a kid we use to put a swivel up the line from a Original Rapala Floater and put a weight in front of the swivel just to get it down further.
I've done this as well.
I had some decent success as well fishing this along ledges they were suspending above.
Ledges were in 25 ft, bass were about 20 ft and we couldn't get them to bite cranking, throwing big worms or dropshotting.
I learned this from a guy that used to fish a carolina rig with a lazy ike attached to a long leader.
He would cast it out and then make long pulls when retrieving it.
Guy always ended up cashing a check and would get a couple walleye every now and then too.
However, I now fish a spoon or bladed jig when deep fish are suspended with better success.
Bankbeater reply :
I've heard of using a heavy weight to keep the crankbait down on the bottom but never heard of t-rigging a crankbait. Sounds very interesting.
Gundog reply :
Found this on the web.
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/31/2018 at 9:12 PM, Gundog said:Found this on the web.
That's it! What did they call it?
Choporoz reply :
On 10/31/2018 at 11:36 PM, Harold Scoggins said:That's it! What did they call it?
http://www.another site.com/news_article/3511/hyper-muscle-deep:-t-rig-cold-cranking
lol...I guess that site is verboten... google "hyper muscle deep t rig cold cranking" and google will take you there just the same
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 10/31/2018 at 11:47 PM, Choporoz said:lol...I guess that site is verboten... google "hyper muscle deep t rig cold cranking" and google will take you there just the same
That's definitely it, and I see they referenced "Jacking" in the article. Thanks for sharing!
Munkin reply :
This is a method used by 13yr old boys using; a Victoria Secret catalog, old sock, and some hand lotion.
papajoe222 reply :
On 10/30/2018 at 8:59 AM, Gundog said:I know when I was a kid we use to put a swivel up the line from a Original Rapala Floater and put a weight in front of the swivel just to get it down further.
I've been doing this on and off for over 40yrs. I call it C-riggging a crank. It's a great way to present shallow diving cranks down deep which is something the fish rarely see. If I'm lucky enough to find open water in Jan. or Feb. I'll use a crappie sized crank or a #7 Rapala and just crawl it along with plenty of pauses.
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