Jigfishn10

I’m having a glass of … ah…Italian wine. I’ll leave it at that. No need for the Italian wine police to visit…

I thought you were brushing your teeth with the stuff for a while there

I probably would have done the same thing @BigAngus752. I have no desire to paint the exterior of my house and the repairs on the exterior of the garage would have been a project I would have taken on as well. @DaubsNU1, nice job man. Boy I wish I had an out building like that! @FishTax, way to go man! I know for sure I would not have been able get that going. Good for you! @TnRiver46…well I know your history with home projects

MegaStrike is like American Express; never go fishing without it

Just checking in to see if any of our YOUNG anglers who want to learn jig fishing from Denny Brauer? If there’s enough interest we’ll make a contest out of it…say largest fish of the season or something like that. I’ll throw his Tournament Secrets in as well. BTW…books are free. I’ve gotten some really good advice for free and want to give back. Lemme know …

Gonna be a quiet winter as far as fishing activities are concerned. I have a few reels to clean up but other than that, really nothing. I usually tie up some bucktails but really didn’t go thru that many last season. I may have a rod guide to replace. I’ll have to take a look see …

Did you doing anything with #61, 62, 64? Oil? Grease?

Makes me want to be a Maineiak more and more … … I would love to get away from the crowds and congestion

Just finishing up repairing the bathroom ceiling … again. Seems like I do it every 5 or 6 years. Had a mold and mildew problem this time around. Scraped the ceiling down and dug out the PIA spots. Weird tho, mold was in the compound under the paint. 3 coated with USG 90 covering the whole ceiling. Primed yesterday with a mold and mildew preventer additive. 1 coat painted today with the additive added in as well. Will final coat tomorrow. New exhaust fan and light fixture waiting on deck. What’s your project?

I haven’t fished one but I like the nice compact profile …

If I know that the fish are responding better to a dead stick bait, sometimes just dropping the rod tip down creating slack in the line and snapping up at the point when the line gets taught again is all you need sometimes to trigger a strike. The shirt or bucktail hair (I fish a lot of bucktail jigs) will flare out without moving the jig forward as @Catt mentions in his post. EDIT This post is how I move a jig while dead sticking. I don’t know Catt’s technique. I brought the popcorn to find out tho …

Love it! Been that way for a couple of years. Get my parents squared away and hit the water. Nothing pretentious, just let the chips fall where they may. Love your post @king fisher

Holy crap @A-Jay,1978 all over again. ”Yeah Guy, wicked lots of snow!”

Loved the post @jrb772

Seriously @woolleyfooley, they make jigs with all kinds of characteristics; some work in grass better than others like we’re talking about here. Take that same grass jig and it will swim better than the ones you posted earlier. The ones you posted earlier work great around rock and timber. A jig with the line tie 90* from the hook shank is a great vertical presented jig but also works well in a swimming application but maybe not as well as a grass jig does. I could go on and on. The one thing I’d recommend is to get to know what different jigs excel at and narrow your choices as to how it pertains to your fishing experience. Look for shape and line tie angles. Look at how a jig sits. Does it stand up or sit horizontal? Picture that jig in the water and how you want to retrieve it. The rabbit hole you go down is worth the investment in time.

Ehh…it’s fishing. Some days my son is on them and I’m not, other days it’s the other way around. The best days are when we’re both on them. Either way it’s a good day for us and we’re making memories.

Great article, thank you

Looks like an old saltwater plug

I was recently reading that tryptophan in turkey is not as significant as you would think. You would need to consume a large amount of turkey for tryptophan to have any effect. What makes you drowsy is the carbs. It was just an article I read. I am not a nutritionist …

No down size Start-up retrieve upon splash down Really, bone is the on color I use. I figure that bass are looking up at a top water and the underside if a bait fish is usually white or bone

Grass jigs for me is something that is more like a bullet head (or as closed to bullet head) and a line tie that is 30* from horizontal. Really think worm fishing. Slender and able to sit down to allow it to snake thru grass. Jigs that stand up generally have a harder time getting thru vegetation. The top jig stands up too much and really is great around rock. I personally wouldn’t fish the bottom jig in grass just because of the way it stands up. That to me invites more snags in grass. I’ll let others comment further.

Bucktail jigs with jig strips will catch a variety of fish. Just need to pretty much swim it along. Diamond jigs with a surgical tube will be your friend on windy days. The soft plastics mentioned above were all great suggestions. Good luck Edit…forgot to mention If you using your freshwater rigs and lures make sure you rinse with freshwater and dry. I make my bucktails with black nickel hooks and use freshwater rods and reels. I dry with an 18v leaf blower. Been doing it for years with no issues.

Saweet!! Everlasting memories! Great thread and thanks for sharing. Happy thanksgiving!

Yeah, I know @A-Jay, I know what I said was a stretch Just spitballing Seeing what you guys deal with has made me really open my eyes over the years. Doesn’t mean I’m still scratching my balding head

I know you’re a hearty new englander @A-Jay, but I’m scratching my head as to how you can like that