Small hair jigs for largemouth...

[DitchPanda]

Talking about the small 1\16th and 1\8th jigs normally thrown for small mouth. They are a small subtle presentation. Got me thinking maybe they would also work well for largemouth this time of year in hot water. Anybody doing this?

[Scott804]

If you have clear enough water it could certainly work I think. I think the reason things like hair jigs and jerkbaits are popular for smallmouth is not only because of what lures smallmouth actually prefer but partially just the fact that they tend to live in really clear water/colder water. A lot of the time when fishing a hair jig I just cast it at a rock that looks like somewhere a smallmouth would be holding to and do happen to be there. If you can figure out how to adapt it to largemouth it could be a pretty cool tool to have, I just think you'd have to solve when the proper time and place is for it. My brother does pretty well on those marabou jigs that have a spinner blade attached to them this time of year, so maybe try one of those too. 

[DitchPanda]

Only reason I thought they may work is I remembered how many bass I've caught on leeches or a piece of crawler when its hot and I'm targeting walleye. Then I see these little brown and black marabou jigs laying there...and it got the hmmmm? thing going 

[RealtreeByGod]

I'll sometimes catch pond dinks with a Lindy Little Nipper tipped with a 1-inch Gulp Minnow, but it's mostly because they're so d**n pressured they refuse to hit anything larger most of the time. 

[Captain Phil]

Your post reminded me of an experience I had years go.  Back in the day, I read everything I could find about bass fishing.  This was before the Internet.  One of the magazines I read was Fishing Facts.  It was a northern fishing magazine full of walleye, smallmouth and pike info, but I read it anyway.  The authors were the Linders.  In this magazine they talked a lot about jig fishing.  I saw an advertisement for some hair jigs and bought them.  They were beautifully tied hair jigs and very realistic crayfish imitations.  I took them out to the Everglades to see if they would work.  I fished them on a light spinning rod bouncing them off the bottom. They caught bass like crazy.  Later, I started experimenting with small black marabou hair jigs.  They worked great too!   Largemouth bass fisherman prefer mostly soft plastics.  They may be surprised to learn how well a small hair jig works.

[Mobasser]

The first bass I caught on a jig was on a 1/8 oz Arkie bucktail jig/ no trailer, years ago. My lakes have gotten too weedy to use them.now, otherwise I'd try use them.again.

[TnRiver46]

The smallmouth and largemouth live together here so I guess you could throw me into that category. I use feathers more than hair but both are great. Marabou jigs in 1/16th and 1/8 are unbelievably cheap. Largemouth like minnows just as much as the smallies 

[papajoe222]

Hair jigs are my go to presentation under post frontal conditions. I tie my own and will toss a 1/4oz. when conditions call for a deeper one. 
when most guys are throwing a Ned, I’m throwing a hair jig. 

[DitchPanda]

35 minutes ago, papajoe222 said:

Hair jigs are my go to presentation under post frontal conditions. I tie my own and will toss a 1/4oz. when conditions call for a deeper one. 
when most guys are throwing a Ned, I’m throwing a hair jig. 

Today is post frontal...high bluebird skies. Tried the Ned with no dice...caught 2 and missed 1 on a black marabou vmc dominator.

[OkobojiEagle]

I fish a sparsely tied rabbit/marabou jig in the early spring and late fall but not so much during the warmer months.  I switch to a rabbit dressed leech pattern tied to a straight hook used drop shotting and a bou-tube (marabou dressed tube jig inserted into a 3" thin walled tube with the tentacles removed).  I get better casting distance and depth with these baits and everything swimming in my lakes eat them...

 

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[GetFishorDieTryin]

Small hair jigs (#2, 1/16oz heads and smaller) work really well from winter until the prespawn is well underway.  Im sure they continue to work into the spawn, but at that point I feel like I can do better with something more aggressive.  Ive heard that they're kind like a flatside in that they work well in both extremes of temp.  I dont like to use them this time of year because of they don't do well with slime and grass. 

[Bdnoble84]

I would throw a marabou version in situations you would normally throw a ned or if you think they are on a leach bite.

[bowhunter63]

I throw white buck tail about 1/4 ounce for Largies or spots. A strip of chartreuse in it seems to help