With the late spring, what is your preference... jig and leech or minnow?

We always use leeches. Minnows are hard to keep alive. Unless you aren't doing much portaging leeches are much easier to transport.

Leech 9 out of 10 times

minnows Spring and Fall. Leeches second half of June through August.

NebraskaDano: "We always use leeches. Minnows are hard to keep alive. Unless you aren't doing much portaging leeches are much easier to transport."

Minnows are a lot of work or downright impossible when the water gets warm, but when water temps are 60 degrees or lower minnows become a lot more resilliant. If you're going in July or August forget minnows. 90% of them will die on the first day no matter how many times you change the water.

Salted shiners for jigging, leeches for live bait rigging. Best combo.

jlw034: "Salted shiners for jigging, leeches for live bait rigging. Best combo."

Do you use a salted shiner on a bare jig or a jig with plastic or hair?

missmolly: "

jlw034: "Salted shiners for jigging, leeches for live bait rigging. Best combo."

Do you use a salted shiner on a bare jig or a jig with plastic or hair?"

Either/or.

Jig and a leech is my go to.

leeches- leeches - leeches. Too much good experience with them compared to something like 'GULP' that imitates a minnow very well or even the real thing in a minnow-- but nothing does a leech movement --- try hooking one -- and then look at it in the water=== under a bobber. my two cents
Leeches for Eyes- Minnows for everything else.