One issue you might be having is your lure is spinning in the water, try tying a barrel swivel to your main line, adding a 1.5ft fluorocarbon leader and then your snap, I'm assuming your quick snap doesn't have the barrel swivel. Gold and black jigging raps have been productive on buckeye for me, the water tends to be a little cloudier than other lakes, saying that I have done well on other colors too, but gold to me stands out. If you are using a rap make sure you are only tipping the treble and use the smallest minnow head possible not to take away from the action. If your using a flasher, once you draw a fish in slow down your presentation to a jiggle or often a 10 second pause. If you are using a pimple try tipping with a full minnow hooked threw the lips and use the same pause or jiggle to get the fish to hit. Blade baits- no tipping with live bait it takes away the vibration, jig erratic, as soon as it hits the end of your line lift it hard again. Try the smaller sizes, 1/8 1/4 work well on Buckeye. And last but not least drill a second hole next to your jigging hole and put a minnow under a bobber 1 ft off the bottom. Hope this helps and if it does please let me know. Good luck and be safe.
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