Lately I have been fishing small plastics on a Ned Head for trout and Creek Chubs and had good luck. What I do is cut a Ned bait in half so that the Trout and Chubs could get there mouths on the hook. Fast forward now, I am having good success with it on lakes and rivers. Just like the normal Ned it to catches above average fish for the system. I will try this around reeds, vertical cover, this summer on vacation. The hope is the compact size will drop a little more on target than a standard Ned which glides to much and gets blown off target, time will tell. Using a Jades Jigs low pro ned head, love these jigs and found my gopher tackle replacement, and a 1.375" LM convulsion stick bait.

I bet you'd do even better without the snap swivel...

2 minutes ago, ajschn06 said:

I bet you'd do even better without the snap swivel...

 

This is my trout and smallie rod. Fishing for trout I use a lot of inline spins and that is why the swivel is there. I do both in the same day, so I guess I am to lazy to switch it out;) I do try the inline spins to for bass but so far no takers.

I don't even know what to say...

6 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

I don't even know what to say...

 

It's a mini turd? ?

Just now, cgolf said:

 

It's a mini turd? ?

It's a mini turd in handcuffs...

I do something like this with 1/32 and 1/64 oz jigheads, but instead of a normal Ned bait I use a curly tail grub without the curly tail. It has a really nice spiral on the fall and does a lot of damage on creek sunfish, although I’ve never tried it on trout. I might try it there

Here is proof it wasn't a dink;) Blue highlight is covering up the promo part of the pic for social media to stay on the right side of the rules:) Average bass on this system are 10-14" and I have only cracked 20" once and it was an old fish I had caught multiple times over many years. 16 to 17" bass are solid smallies and none of them are hurting for a meal. It is a unique system to watch, lots of carp and very healthy populations of bass and pike.

13 minutes ago, Buzzbaiter said:

I do something like this with 1/32 and 1/64 oz jigheads, but instead of a normal Ned bait I use a curly tail grub without the curly tail. It has a really nice spiral on the fall and does a lot of damage on creek sunfish, although I’ve never tried it on trout. I might try it there

An inch of trick or finesse worm on a crappie jig gets them when they play hard to get.

9 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

An inch of trick or finesse worm on a crappie jig gets them when they play hard to get.

Crappie slider plastics work really well too when there are 1000s of little minnows swimming around, they match the hatch perfectly. This is a serious note to self because I always pack them for this exact reason, do you think I ever rig them up, nope.

6 minutes ago, cgolf said:

Crappie slider plastics work really well too when there are 1000s of little minnows swimming around, they match the hatch perfectly. This is a serious note to self because I always pack them for this exact reason, do you think I ever rig them up, nope.

We have mosquitofish here. They vary in size, most don't get much over an inch. A lot of things key in on them, specially when the water is cold.

21 minutes ago, BaitFinesse said:

I like taking the spinner and arm off a beetle spin and just fishing the jig head and beetle.  

Scrub Grubbing, Ned before Ned.