Improving the Jackall Giron

[Micro]

Anyone that has fished the Jackall Giron understands it lacks a wide swimming action. It's a good bait, but the bait has a very narrow swim path.

I took an old Giron of mine and filed down the edges of the forward body segment. I found these are excessively long and restrict the range of motion of the tail. Filing them down allows the tail to swing a bit more. And I've still got some room to knock the sides down a bit more. 

Preliminary tests in the neighborhood pond a little while ago are promising. The bait does swim with a noticably wider path. It has a better action with a slow retrieve, too. The horizontal sinking attribute is unaffected. Gonna try it for real soon.

[Big Tom]

Man, that is a huge difference.  I hope it works for you.

[Hook Set]

Great idea, like the mod!

I may give it a whirl, let us know how it works out

[Gorgebassman]

Thats a great modification bet that will work well on most jointed baits like that let us know how it does for you. 

[HopelesslyAddicted]

  This is very interesting.  I have always thought the action of my Giron could look a little better.  Let us know how much better you can get it to be!  A video would be awesome if you have the means.

[swimbait]

Interesting, let us know if it seems to work better.

[lightsout]

Awesome man, cant wait to hear how it works out. I honestly have been disapointed with this bait so far.

[Gone_Phishin]

Awesome man, cant wait to hear how it works out. I honestly have been disapointed with this bait so far.

x2.  Good thinking; I hope it works out.

[gobig]

I could be wrong but looking at the design of the bait it looks more like a twitch/rip bait. I think that may be why the action seemed off. It was not really designed with slow rolling in mind.

[Jake.]

I fish the Giron the same way I fish a walk-the-dog type bait. Fish it fast enough where it stays just under the surface and darts back and forth. I've had the best success fishing it this way.

[fishEguy]

A video would be awesome if you have the means.

x 2.......... 8-)

[gobig]

I fish the Giron the same way I fish a walk-the-dog type bait. Fish it fast enough where it stays just under the surface and darts back and forth. I've had the best success fishing it this way.

I do not own one nor have I fished one, but that's exactly what I was getting at. Its the like the difference between a deep diving crank and a lipless crank. They are both cranks just have different uses. I think this bait would excel fished faster walked, twitched, ripped and paused. I am still interested in hearing how it performs modified.

[Micro]

Fished it a bit yesterday.  Really, no real discernible difference between the modded and unmodded bait.  The modded one does seem to swim a little wider path, bit if you jerk it doesn't seem to act quite right and seemed to get its hook hung up on the line a bit more.  Final impression:  not worth messing up a nice bait for this.

[Gone_Phishin]

Fished it a bit yesterday. Really, no real discernible difference between the modded and unmodded bait. The modded one does seem to swim a little wider path, bit if you jerk it doesn't seem to act quite right and seemed to get its hook hung up on the line a bit more. Final impression: not worth messing up a nice bait for this.

That's a bummer.  This may be the only Jackall product that I've been disappointed in.

[Hook Set]

Well it was worth a shot, thanks for the post.