Size jig would be best?

[LEWITH]

I wanna fish weed lines in 7-15 feet of water. What type of jig (football, arky,etc) would be best? Also what size would be best?

 

thanks,

 

lew

[ww2farmer]

A 1/2 oz jig is a good all purpose mid-depth to deep grass line jig. If the grass is more scattered with a hard or rocky bottom, a football head will be a good choice, if its thicker grass, and you want to put the jig right into it, a bullet shaped jig head would be a better choice.

[bigturtle]

sounds like you need an arky or flipping style jig. 3/8-3/4oz would be ideal.

[jr231]

I like 5/16oz swim jig with a kalins lunker grub outside of weed lines. SK has a strong and reliable one that's under 4 dollars. 

[WRB]

Sieberts Shot Caller swim jig 3/8 and 1/2 oz. The weight difference is important depending on the basses mood or preference to rate of fall.

Tom

[kickerfish1]

I would use a Poison Head or a California Swim style head. You can fish it effective with a  3/8 or 1/2 oz with the difference being the rate of fall.

[WRB]

I fish this depth range a lot and anywhere between 1' to 40' with my own jigs in deep rocky structured lakes with sparse cover.

Anytime a jig is resting on the bottom with controlled slack line the jig shouldn't roll over.

Football heads are designed to keep the hook upright when sitting on the bottom, but doesn't go through weeds very good.

Sieberts Shot Caller swim jig has a flat bottom shape that allows the hook to stay upright and the hook eye is protected from weeds. For these reasons the Shot Caller is ideal for the application noted by the OP.

Tom

[roadwarrior]

Maybe a Siebert Outdoors 3/8 oz swimjig.

 

http://www.siebertoutdoors.com/Swim-Jigs_c10.htm

 

[iceintheveins]

At that depth range, a 1/4 ounce arky or grass jig is your best bet IMO, but if you're using heavier line (17 pound test or heavier) or the wind is blowing, a 3/8 is better.

["hamma"]

 Here's the skinny on jigs,....

 If you cant FEEL it at the depth to be fished, it's too light

 

 So, start with a light jig,... say,...1/4 oz with the trailer of choice, if you cant feel it, go up to a 3/8 oz, and so on till you do feel it down on the bottom.

 

 Reason being,..you want the lightest jig possible to go over and thru stuff, but not so light that you dont feel what its hitting

 

 Did I word that so it's understandable?

[bagofdonuts]

Your probably talking summertime outside weed edge. Rate of fall is the key, sometimes they like a really fast falling jig, especially in summer. My thinking would be to start with a faster falling (1 o.z) and go lighter if not getting a reaction. You can cover water faster and trigger the aggressive bass. Greg Hackney has a you tube video that's real good on jig fishing the deep weed edge. He's the man, so I'd listen to him and get whatever he's using.

[Fishes in trees]

I own a bunch of jigs in a variety of weights & head styles.   They didn't get wet very often the past couple of years.   I fish deep weed lines a lot, pre-spawn (Where the deep weed line will be once it will form) - not so much during the spawn - and then post spawn until it is too cold to go fishing any more.  Every trip, I'll check deep weed lines several times during the outing.

My experiences the past couple of years have been that a jika rig will seriously out fish a jig both for numbers and size.

 

I make my own,  most of the ones I make are within a gram or so either way of a half ounce.  Being able to present a large soft plastic, most of the time a lizard or brush hog, some times a 10" worm, locked on to the bottom with the weight away from the bait has been the ticket for me.

 

If I had to throw a jig in that situation, it would most likely be 3/8 or half oz.  Probably a bubba shakey head with a trick worm or magnum trick worm -  UNLESS I was more or less consistently getting bit on the initial drop.   Then a lighter jig would be in order.   I've seen mid- summer situations in 8 to 10 foot deep weed line edges where the only bait that would work was a wacky senko.

Cast it out and wait - for a while.   Pretty boring but sometimes effective.

 

You're from Minnesota - back in the say, when the Lindners owned In-fisherman, they consistently wrote about how a jig worm was day in and day out the most reliable weed line bait.  They were using a golpher

mushroom head - 3/16 or 1/4 and a 7" power worm on 8 lb test - open hook - kind of like a bubba ned rig.

If the rig got stuck on vegetation on the way down, in their opinion, that was good.  A sharp snap, pulling the bait free of the weed often was the trigger for a strike.

Weed lines have lots of options.

 

 

[gripnrip]

I rarely use anything less than a 1/2 oz. If I do I go to another presentation.  Now when I fish team tournaments with my son that is another story.  I usually put him with a 1/4 oz to see if he can get a bite when I can't with the heavier.  If he's slaying them then I will choose another presentation all together.  

[RoLo]

If I'm not mistaken you're asking about jig 'Weight' & 'Type', not jig brand.

In 7-15' of water I'm normally satisfied with 1/4 oz jig, which will usually draw more strikes

than a heavier jig. Unfortunately though, the jig fisher has 2 other issues he must deal with:

Weed penetration & Trailer activation.

 

In weedy lakes (natural lakes) I rarely get by with less than a 3/8 oz jig.

But since I like high-throb plastic trailers, a 1/2 oz jig is usually needed just to activate the tail

during a pendulum glide (lower weight is needed to activate the trailer during a freefall). 

 

As for jighead configurations, the football jighead is the undisputed king over hard bottoms,

the Arky jighead (i.e. Arkansas jig) is generally preferred in stump-fields and standing timber,

while swim jigs are best in heavy vegetation (Any spire-point jig with the eyelet on the nose).

 

Roger