Mini Ned ? ?

[MOPanfisher]

Since I couldn't go fishing and I needed a good excuse to sneak off to my boat barn and smoke a cigar, I was messing around with various ones of my umpteen tackle boxes/trays.  In one of them was several green pumpkin pencil worms or something similar.  Waste not want not so cut several of them down to about 3 inches for my Ned box which I made but have yet to use.  As I was cleaning up the pieces I noticed that the left over piece was a little shorter and smaller diameter but looked great.  I put it on a 16 Oz mushroom head and man it looked even better.  Is there any use or need for a mini Ned, for goggle eye, greatest catcher of 6 inch bass etc.   As an aside prior to a Dr. Appt. I stopped at BPS and bought some actual Z man plastics, definitely a difference.  Small creeks beware I am coming for you.

[hoglaw]

I cleaned a gob of goggle eye the other day. Every one of them had craw pincers in their bellies. Big ones too. The zinker z cut in half is as good as I've found for the ned stuff. I have very confidence in the TRD and is basically the same thing!  Maybe it's just the color. 

[MOPanfisher]

The TRD in brown orange is actually what I bought, previously used generic plastic stuff with a round head 1/8 Oz weed less head, and it worked well.  The little mini Ned thingy was just cute.  Always seemed to me a decent goggle eye can more than eat a full sized Ned, heck they will go after a big black jitterbug.  

[goosetalk]

I think I will be saving pieces of my Zinker Z's or Zero's when they finally need to be changed to catch bluegill and small green sunfish for trot line bait.

[Seth]

I don't see why you would even have to bother downsizing it even more. I'm not sure how many bluegill and sunfish we caught on the NED Monday and Tuesday on Table Rock, but it was quite a few. It's a dink magnet! With that said, we did finally catch a smallmouth that was pushing 19" on it. I think that makes two bass that we've caught on the NED that broke the two pound mark. The less than two pound totals have to be pushing about 2,000 though. 

[jtram]

I have been on a couple goggle eye hunts this year, both VERY successful and I used the ned exclusively for both. My biggest problem when fishing the ned (or anything for that matter ) for goggle eye is that I can't get the brown bass looking fish things that live in creeks to stay off of them?

[MOPanfisher]

Jtram, that a terrible problem to have, but yeah I know what you mean.  I know a few places with good populations of decent sized bluegill and green sunfish I may just have to try the mini's out.  what have I got to lose, except a few small mushroom heads and some pieces of plastic I was going to toss anyway.  Now about those locations of the VERY successful goggler trips, I do love me some goggler action.

[jtram]

First hole and next to last hole on my favorite float. You're welcome

[hoglaw]

I had the exact same problem jtram. I've been working on a family fry for this weekend. Walleye were good to me this spring but not the crappie, at least until yesterday. I've been trying to get a bunch of goggle eye from my creek and keep catching smallmouth. I caught one of, if not my biggest from the creek so far last Friday. A very chunky 18 and change. No wonder I couldn't get any meat fish from that spot. 

[jtram]

That's impressive. I have a hard time sitting on a bunch of goggle eye when I find them, and if I leave there will almost certainly not be any more to find farther down. Or if I don't want to keep any I'll catch 96 googly fish over 10 inches........ it's a rough life we live.