Jerk bait and plugs, what is the difference?

[Vagabond]

'Snigging' which is leaving baited hooks near a favoured eel lie.

 

There is a similar word "sniggling" or "to sniggle" which is in a poem by Andrew Lang, fulminating against the deterioration of the Upper Clyde.

 

Scots wae fish wi' salmon roe,

Scots wae sniggle as ye go,

Will ye stand the baillie? - NO!

 

The context suggests trout rather than eels were the quarry, but what say our two resident etymologists?

[Emma two]

There is a similar word "sniggling" or "to sniggle" which is in a poem by Andrew Lang, fulminating against the deterioration of the Upper Clyde.

 

Scots wae fish wi' salmon roe,

Scots wae sniggle as ye go,

Will ye stand the baillie? - NO!

 

The context suggests trout rather than eels were the quarry, but what say our two resident etymologists?

 

 

It was trout he was after with salmon roe, and that was of coursr against a 'rule'

 

Barker instructs my

Lord Montague to fish with salmon roe, a thing prohibited and

very popular in Scotland. 'If I had known it but twenty years

agoe, I would have gained a hundred pounds onely with that

bait. I am bound in duty to divulge it to your Honour, and

not to carry it to my grave with me. I do desire that men of

quality should have it that delight in that pleasure: the

greedy angler will murmur at me, but for that I care not.'

Barker calls salmon roe 'an experience I have found of late:

the best bait for a trout that I have seen in all my time,'

and it is the most deadly, in the eddy of a turbid water.

Perhaps trout would take caviare, which is not forbidden by

the law of the land. Any unscrupulous person may make the

experiment, and argue the matter out with the water-bailie.

But, in my country, it is more usual to duck that official,

and go on netting, sniggling, salmon-roeing, and destroying

sport in the sacred name of Liberty.

 

 

Scots wha fish wi' salmon roe,

Scots wha sniggle as ye go,

Wull ye stand the Bailie? No!

Let the limmer die!

 

Now's the day and now's the time,

Poison a' the burns wi' lime,

Fishing fair's a dastard crime,

We're for fishing FREE!

 

lang, A. Introduction to the compleat Angler http://www.fullbooks.com/Andrew-Lang-s-Int...e-Compleat.html

[Andy Macfarlane]

Good stuff. I like it and I'm going to copy it for my wee miscellaneous fishing folder full of all things piscatorial.

[corydoras]

Maybe Cory would know.

It was called ripping, jagging or jigging where I did most of my growing up Andy.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Jagging and jigging (except in lure or sea fishing) I've not heard. Ripping is definitely a word I've heard used for it (ta!) but that wasn't the word I was thinking of either. Ach, I cannae mind. Thanks anyhow. I'll ask my mate Cammy when I see him. He was as fly as they come so he'll know for sure.

[Emma two]

Ripping is definitely a word I've heard used for it (ta!) but that wasn't the word I was thinking of either. Ach, I cannae mind. Thanks anyhow.

 

'Snatching'?

[Andy Macfarlane]

LOL no.....I think I'll just wait till I speak to my mate. I'll probably kick myself.

[Ronst]

I think it is clear now, thanks to everyone.

 

happy fishing.

 

cheers

Ron

[noodle996]

I think it is clear now, thanks to everyone.

 

happy fishing.

 

cheers

Ron

 

 

ask a simple question and se what you get lol

 

hope you get on well on there bud

[Vidar6]

Just to add to the confusion, there are several types of "jerkbait's" available, which all requires rather different retrieve techniques in order to be used successfully

 

The bulk of so-called "jerkbait's" used for pike in the UK are not at all designed to be retrieved with violent jerks or pulls, but are rather glidebait's or slider's that should be retrieved using relative gentle taps of the rod tip, thus allowing the bait to glide side-to-side in a zig-zag pattern.

 

There is simply a much greater chance of foul hooking a fish on a largish straight retrieved crank bait's and treble hooked soft plastic lures then there is on a correctly fished glidebait or slider.