Minnesota in June

[Jig Man]

I got a call last night from a friend who is going with some guys the first week of June.  I don’t know what lake but they will be fishing for smallmouth.  He wants some tube heads and Ned heads.  Neither he no I have fished there before.  So I am trying to get an idea of what to make him.  My original thoughts are 1/8 and 1/4 oz tube heads and 1/16, 3/32, and 1/8 oz Ned heads.  Mn guys am I in the ball park or way off course?

 

[FryDog62]

Absolutely in the ball park. For smallmouth I use primarily 1/8 oz Tube jigs, sometimes 3/16. Neds almost exclusively 3/32 oz, but if over 15 feet and/or current then 1/8 oz. 

[Jig Man]

Thanks.  I have poured him 2 dozen of each size that I listed.  Will that be enough for a week of solid fishing?

[throttleplate]

1 hour ago, Jig Man said:

Thanks.  I have poured him 2 dozen of each size that I listed.  Will that be enough for a week of solid fishing?

the pike might have a say in this.

[Jig Man]

2 hours ago, throttleplate said:

the pike might have a say in this.

I don’t understand what you mean.

[gim]

2 hours ago, Jig Man said:

I don’t understand what you mean.

I think he means that your friend is going to lose some from pike bite offs.

[Jig Man]

That’s what I figured but I don’t know if he thinks I should make my friend more baits.

[uno]

Two dozen of each should be good, unless he enjoys fishing heavy jigheads in shallow rocks and loses all of them on snags. Pike will bite off a few, but hopefully by June the little slimer pike and the smallmouth will inhabit different places.