One more time, favorite swim jigs!

[Finessegenics]

7 hours ago, waymont said:

Another Boss jig head user here. I prefer the standard Boss Swim Jig heads. They are very balanced, and have a great Mustad hook, with a well designed trailer keeper too. Boss skirts are killer too. Around $2.70 a jig!

1/4 and 3/8oz are all I use.

 

have you tried the “baby boy” swim jig heads? how do they compare to these standard ones? I’m looking into making my own jigs for next season and I’m wondering if I’d be better off with the standard head or the finesse version. 

[WRB]

Hands down a Scrounger jig.

Tom

[waymont]

47 minutes ago, Finessegenics said:

have you tried the “baby boy” swim jig heads? how do they compare to these standard ones? I’m looking into making my own jigs for next season and I’m wondering if I’d be better off with the standard head or the finesse version. 

I haven’t. The dock knocker and finesse flip are the others I use, and they have a great hook up ratio, and are great designs too.

[Cgrinder]

Northstar Original in 1/4 oz and Flip n Swim in 3/8. New Gill, Chris Craw, Salsa.

[Teal]

9 hours ago, WRB said:

Hands down a Scrounger jig.

Tom

A very underrated and probably under used swim jig.  Love them in stained water. Prob gonna dig some out since we are flooded right now and both lakes are like chocolate milk back in the creeks   

[Bandersnatch]

1 hour ago, Teal said:

A very underrated and probably under used swim jig.  Love them in stained water. Prob gonna dig some out since we are flooded right now and both lakes are like chocolate milk back in the creeks   

I'd assume not good for grass though? 

[Teal]

Like anything else that has a vibrating lip or blade on it, tends to hit grass, but the scrounger to me, is less effected by it than a chatter bait.  If its HEAVY HYDRILLA, then prob the wrong bait anyways, but It does ok in sparse pond weed, water willow, sparse milfoil and such.  In submerged vegetation, I like to just go over the top of it. If I have to get down in it, I personally might use something weedless like a soft swimmer... that's just my opinion and I'm wrong very often.  

[Bankbeater]

1/8 oz. Bitsy Bug.  I can pop that thing right through the coontail and hydrilla and not pick any up.

[Ogandrews]

On 6/17/2020 at 11:42 PM, RoLo said:

 

In slimy vegetation, weeds can adhere to the tiniest corner, even the corners of an external line-eye.

In heavy vegetation, a weedguard with a wide angle is enough to get catchy & choky. 

The 'Revenge Swim Jig' has an embedded line-eye with NO corners, and has a low-slung weedguard.

In Florida, weedlessness isn't an asset, it's a necessity.

 

Roger

I’ve fished in Florida a good amount while visiting family and your weeds are very similar to the ones I fish here in southern Minnesota in the summer. Takes a very specific swim jig to get through the slimy stuff, I have always done really well with dirty jigs but I’ll have to give the revenge a try as well.

[RoLo]

1 hour ago, Ogandrews said:

I’ve fished in Florida a good amount while visiting family and your weeds are very similar to the ones I fish here in southern Minnesota in the summer. Takes a very specific swim jig to get through the slimy stuff, I have always done really well with dirty jigs but I’ll have to give the revenge a try as well.

 

For years, I've used Dirty Jigs almost exclusively, and touted them right here in Bass Resource.

Dirty Jigs make a jig for every occasion, from their Shakey head jig to their No-jack Punchin jig.

 

Though I didn't include it in my Jig Shootout table, another thing that's nice about the Revenge Jig

is the weedguard tension. A soft, easily deflected fiber guard is not as weedless, whereas a stiff weedguard

can result in missed hooksets. Also important is the range of available weights. 

Though a 1/2 oz jig & trailer is the most often used, sometimes you'll want a 3/4 oz jig,

but not every company offers 3/4 ounce. 

 

Roger

[Ogandrews]

22 minutes ago, RoLo said:

 

For years, I've used Dirty Jigs almost exclusively, and touted them right here in Bass Resource.

Dirty Jigs make a jig for every occasion, from their Shakey head jig to their No-jack Punchin jig.

 

Though I didn't include it in my Jig Shootout table, another thing that's nice about the Revenge Jig

is the weedguard tension. A soft, easily deflected fiber guard is not as weedless, whereas a stiff weedguard

can result in missed hooksets. Also important is the range of available weights. 

Though a 1/2 oz jig & trailer is the most often used, sometimes you'll want a 3/4 oz jig,

but not every company offers 3/4 ounce. 

 

Roger

Majority of the time I’m using 3/8 or 1/2, but the 3/4 definitely gets some use from me especially when I’m fishing for pike and am hitting a weed edge in 10-15 ft. Next TW order I’ll throw some in my cart, every time I go fishing for bass I have a swim jig of some sort tied on so I’m always looking for new options. Just took a look at them and they come in a great perch color which isn’t easy to find, definitely will get bit up here.

[RoLo]

30 minutes ago, Ogandrews said:

but the 3/4 definitely gets some use from me especially when I’m fishing for pike

and am hitting a weed edge in 10-15 ft. 

 

Precisely.

The last time we fished Manitoba, we used 1/2 & 3/4 oz Revenge jigs

with a Jackall 5.8” Rhythm Wave, along cabbage weedlines 12 to 15 ft deep.

 

Roger