Question About A Jig

[Steve James]

I am a jig aholic but I've always found ones I really like and ones that are rubbish, any of you had the same experience? What's your best/worst?

[NJSalt]

I won't get into jigs I don't like, as some may like them and don't see the point in a thread to find "the worst jig".

 

 

The best? I am really liking the Missile Mini Flip jig. Good skirt, big hook, compact profile. 

[Steve James]

I hear ya salt, sometimes I like to take people's advise and stear clear of ones they prefer not to throw.

[scaleface]

The worst jigs are the ones I trimmed the weedguards on . I forgot who it was but a pro on a video showed how he trimmed the weedguards and I did exactly like him. Those jigs were ruined and snagged on everything. 

[Catt]

Best heavy cover & grass jigs are Terry Oldham's!

When I want a rattle you'll be hard pressed to beat Lunker Lures Rattle Back.

[WRB]

A jig is only as good as the hook and head design. Commercial or off the shelf jigs need to look good to sell and may not have the ideal hook type or size needed to catch bass where and how you fish jigs.

Head designs come a wide variety, there are hundreds to choose from considering shape and weight alone.

If you fish vertically or make short casts where strikes occur on the fall in heavy cover a compact weed gaurd design head with a heavy wire large size hook works good.

If you cast the jig like a bullet weight Texas rig worm, then the jig designed for more vertical fall isn't the best design for that presentation.

The Arkie and brush jig designs are good for vertical short cast presentations in heavy cover.

The football and stand up head designs are good for horizontal jig presentation is rocks or sparse cover.

Both vertical and horizontal jigs need premium sharp strong hooks, but a different style; vertical jigs in heavy cover requires heavy wire compact hook, horizontal jigs work better with medium wire hook with a longer shank design that puts the hook point deeper into the basses mouth.

You have a premium jig and use in the wrong type of presentation and have problems with it. The right design jig with a dull or weak hook results are poor.

Select jigs with premium sharp strong hooks and a design that suits where and how you fish.

Tom

[MasonV]

My favorite may have to be the Hart Justice Jig. I haven't tried one that I really disliked.

[Senko lover]

Ones I don't like? Two words for ya, Bass Pro! Don't like their jigs at all.

[kickerfish1]

Northstar and Siebert account for 90% or more of my jigs. There are too many other brands I really don't care for.

[jonnyblazex]

  Remember, a jig can basically be used in about any circumstance or condition, depending on how well you know them and what works where.  For brands, I have been using a lot of all terrain tackle a.t. jigs, booyah brush jigs, as well as terminator and have had good luck with all of them.  Most are purchased at local stores, which is few by the way.  The reason I buy them from the local store is because I lose them all the time.  When I get low I buy more.  I try my hardest to get it to that spot where no man has gotten before.  Sometimes you pull out a hog, and believe me, sometimes its easier to get your jig back out from way back there if you have a fish on.  If no bite, you'll never see your jig again.  That's the way I like to use them.  If you aint loosing it you aint using it!!  I'll trade a $3 jig anyday for many of the fish I have caught on them, and I would never want my money back.  I usually lose about 2 or 3 jigs every single time out, but I really try to save them as best I can, and probably do so at least 80% of the time.   

[Josh Smith]

Lots of my most effective ones have been purchased from small-time, local jig makers.

Josh

[FinCulture]

Strike King KVD swim jigs. Throw a Paca Chunk or paddle tail swimbait trailer on one of those suckers and get ready for some fish!

[Brayberry]

This thread needs more pictures

 

[Bluebasser86]

I make my own, like a lot of guys do anymore. Why try to find one that is "good enough", when I can build exactly what I want?

 

If I was buying jigs it would be from Seibert's no doubt. I have no idea how he sells the quality of jigs he does for those prices. 

[Catt]

What I look for in a jig is a smooth transition from the line to the eye & around the belly, which requires the eye to be slightly rolled foward. The reasoning is my jig will follow the line up to the cover & the slide smoothly over the cover.

In a grass jigs I tend to like a bulkier head like Oldham's Eye Max or a football head instead of the more common pointed head. While most anglers prefer the quite approach in grass I prefer to cause a commotion; bass n grass rely of their lateral line to "sense" movement of prey & the bulkier head provides that.

As for hooks, I want to turn the bass's head & get her coming up in one swift & that requires a strong stout hook. Oldham's Eye Max jigs have a 5/0 Siwash Salmon hook which will not flex under pressures applied by long rods, braided lines, & big bass in heavy cover.

[Mike L]

I've been useing the Medlock double weed guard flipping jig lately and really like it.

Been able to fish in areas that I couldn't before with any other type of jig.

Mike

[clh121787]

Bruce from paradise tackle co. Builds the best jigs in my opinion