Jigs, Will You Only Buy Hand Tied?

[Cgrinder]

Yep.

[WRB]

Hair jigs are thread tied.

Living rubber are wire tied.

Silicone are rubber collars to initially make then and a 3" narrow (3/32) black nylon cable Ty to lock it down onto the jig.

Wire can cut silicone skirt strips.

Tom

[kickerfish1]

Wire has zero impact on silicone skirt damage if done correctly.

[Felix77]

Nope. The bass could care less.

[Bluebasser86]

I wire tie all mine. It takes about the same amount of time to tie a skirt as it does to band one and it last so much longer (not that I ever get to keep a jig very long). 

[BassThumb]

I only use wire-tied nowadays.

I catch a lot of small to mid-sized northern pike on jigs, and their teeth cut through those rubber bands in no time.

[Catt]

I can zip-tie faster than y'all can get your wire out

[hatrix]

I use both I guess. I am not sped picky about it really. There are wire tied and there are ones held with bands. There are also interchangeable ones with colars. I do like some collared skirts but it depends. There are different levels on quality on those for sure. For example the skirts that come on a zman chatterbait only have one layer of skirt and are very thin. Now the collared ones I get from my local shop have as much skirt material as you could ever want and are very nicely put together. They are also like $1 each or 5 for $4 for them but they have tons of great color patterns there and you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.

[boostr]

I have rubber collars because when I was bank fishing I would lose a lot of jigs so it didn't make sense to spend the extra money for wire tied , but now that I'm on the water in my yak I can retrieve my jigs if they get stuck 100 percent of the time so far. I will be going to wire tie over the winter.

[boostr]

Or maybe I'll stay collared...

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.

[Catt]

Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.

Ran out before, Toledo Tackle was closed ran to Walmart in Jasper; continued to kill em!

[jtharris3]

Whatever works best for me is what I use. Typically the cheaper the better.

[thirtysixit]

Color matters most to me.   I fish Revenge and Skinny Bear Jigs. They are both great jigs.  One is hand tied the other is not... I have equal confidence in both.

[jbarnard]

i like a simple arkie rattle band jig i normally zip tie the band on them and there good to go

[blckshirt98]

Band rot drives me up the wall, I've had to buy mini zip ties to lock down jigs(and spinnerbaits/chatterbaits) with band rot.  I always try to buy hand tied now (Cooch's TnT Wadda Jigs!).