Siebert Outdoors

I'm working on a new style football jig. Just looking for everyone's input and what they think of the design. Here are a couple photos. The head has a flat spot on the bottom and angled edges. With this it also has a recessed eye, better collar, and barb. I'm working on this heads angles to help kick it over rocks a bit better then a standard round ball football. This head is based off my Dredge head but I want it to be a improved. I'm still in the tweaking phase of this but my main question is: The head does not stand on a flat surface with the flat base, but when in rocks it fishes like a champ due to the angled sides. When I put a skirt on the head it does stand from the skirt and fishes just as well. Would you all prefer a football jig that will stand up like my brush heads by itself on a flat surface or would you prefer the angles to help kick the jig up and over structure? I personally would rather have performance over look nice on a table top. I've never seen a bottom contour like a table.

Nice catching!! Especially on a lake you do not like.

I throw a brush jig almost 100% of the time. I like the headstyle and I like the way it holds the craw up. Arkys are also a great all around jig head and will do just about anything you ask it to.

I dont shorten the meneces on 3/8 oz.. On your 1/4 I may take just a little off if it didnt work well at full length. When I fish the Rage craw 99% of the time I take 1- 2 nubs off the tail. Like pictured in my avatar.

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing

I'll probably forget one or two but here goes. MO, IL,MI, AL, TN, MS, AR,WI, Canada, SC, KY, TX I think that is it.

I'd probably throw a 3/8 in less then 10 fow. Most of the time I throw a 1/2 for all around fishing. Ledges I typically throw 3/4 football

I throw 15lb flouro for just about everything jigging. The only time I change is heavy cover. Then I go to 50-65lb braid. I do not throw a leader. If I had to chose one for all around and I did fish heavier structure I'd probably have to agree with the 20lb flouro.

I think it was a success!!

Ouch, I hope they get you a new rod real soon.

One huge lesson I learned awhile back helping a guy is its not always the jig. It can be the complete setup not working with the jig. I was helping a customer with making a swim jig just for him to his specs. We ran into a lot of issues. I would fish the jig on a 7'1" Heavy rod and 15lb fluorocarbon and catch fish with no issues. So he said send me a couple to test. He would miss fish consistently on it. So after a phone call we found out that he was fishing a rod about 7'6" x heavy with braid. So I had a similar set up and tested it. I had the same result as he did. After a few changes to the jig we figured out how to match the jig to how he was fishing. Some jigs do have to be altered to a specific style of fishing. Most jigs will just interchanged but there are certain times that a jig must be modified to fill a specific task and there is only one way to find this out. The user has to test it out and modify as need be if its needed at all. This is the main reason I leave weedgaurds full length on all of my jigs. On some of my jigs I could probably shorten them but I do not want the end user to not be able to tweak the jig to how he/she needs it.

Awesome rod! Spectacular craftsmanship.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Very nice!! I wish I lived close I'd swing by and fish.

Those are some chunks!!

That looks good! I'm going to have to get some of those and try them out.

My cousin runs one and he has had 0 issues. Runs a Etec 225 HO and has ran it a lot. Not one single problem.

No joke there. And Deep is relative to the lake. A local lake I fish 10-15 fow is good because it doesnt get much deeper. Then you throw Tablerock or Beaver Lake in there 10-15 fow is only about 1/2 way down to where I like to summer fish. Just like JFrancho said. Spring and Fall dont ever forget those shallows.

From your statement it sounds like he is not known for fishing deep structure. I wouldn't even worry about it. I'd fish my spots and catch the fish. If he isn't good or decent at fishing that type of structure he will probably not catch much or anything and wont stay long. Follow the rules of the club and fish your waters you like, a shadow deserves to be just a shadow. This is completely different if someone is just fishing your spot, but this guy singled you out. This happens a lot on Lake St Clair to me. Pretty much every day. You will have boats lined up on the mile roads and once someone starts catching fish the herd is now in pursuit and piles in on that boat.

I always go to the local Plaza Tire station and they set me up.

For the lakes I fish 99% of my big fish are deep structure in 15-20 fow draggin the jig on the bottom.

Awesome!! Congrats.

Lately its been t rigged for me.

Double header is a great color. It is green pumpkin and watermelon red. Two of the best colors put together. I have space monkeys 20% off right now.

So Raul. When is the estimated arrival to your door step?