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You could also use loctite super glue gel, works real well.

I use black on all my jigs except swim jigs or white jigs, for those I use clear. I personally do not think a black varies that much from a green pumpkin or a brown in the water to make a difference.

X2 on the small ziplocks and the Plano box.

very interesting. would like to try one myself.

You can build or have your jigs built with rattle collars and only insert them when you need to. This way they can still be hand tied with a rattle option. Another option is to insert a glass rattle in the jig trailer. It is more subtle the standard jig rattles.

White (aside from a spinnerbait trailer) purple and yellow. I'm more of a green pumpkin, blue fleck, red Shad type of guy.

X2 on the hair jigs. That black grub has been working well this week though.

I agree w/ Monte, but what you could do is tie some skirts on punch hubs and use these with a Texas rigged trailer. The fall will be real slow.

60 deg here in long island ny yesterday, my son had a few bass and sunfish on a small black grub at a local shallow water pond.

Plano Waterproof boxes. I've tried the Falcon boxes with the slots for specific baits, but these don't hold enough and nothing stays where it should anyway.

Nice baits. Like the pink, throw a little chart in there and it would make a great spinnerbait skirt.

60-70 tops. I found 50 to be perfect. Nice looking baits.

Jim, The ponds around Massapequa are pretty good. Grant Park in Hewlett has sone really nice fish, only it's getting harder with all the pressure. Blydenburgh out east in Smithtown rents rowboats on the late spring and summer and this place is great. My son fishes a bunch of tiny ponds in Nassau and does pretty well. Lakeview Res., Macdonald Pond and Hempstead lake all have decent bass and pickerel fishing. Like someone said look on the dec website, check out any lakes that have the species your looking for no matter where their located. You might be really surprised.

Again, Plano box for the jigs and original trailer packages in a binder.

Is it a traditional jig with a skirt and weedguard? If so, no Texas rigging. If it's a stand up jighead alone, yes, texas rig it.

Welcome.

3/8 single Colorado (white or nickel blade) with a white or white/chart skirt.

All white 90% of the time. Otherwise gold. I 've gotten away from the traditional silver/aluminum color and catch a ton on buzzbaits.

I actually go a little lighter in weight from the bank. It has helped my catch rate with a slower fall, being closer to the targets you want to throw to. Plus the lighter jig tends not to get caught up as much. As for fishing, the same methods work.

They are very good, but they discountinued their 4" finesse worm a while ago and those things caught a lot of fish.

Try a black head with orange, chart and blue hair. It's been a very good combo for me in cold water. Also all black and all brown.

Nice. The grass style with the eyes, as well as the poison tail work real nice for swim jigs. Great color schemes.

See if maybe the dep can give you a nap of where they dropped the structure/cover, some will. This way you know what your picking up and what it looks like. Next, I would fish 4 baits: 1. Silver buddy 2. Hopkins spoon 3. Drop shot 4. Jig a gps and marker buoys also help alot. Deep water fishing is reL fun when you find that right piece of cover.

Nice looking jigs.

Swim jig Hand poured frog 4" Berkley finesse worms