mcipinkie

Anyone else out there taken all the tackle out of their boat and started sorting out? Cabin fever is setting in early this year. I got all the 3700's and all the sacks of lures that I bought this year out of the boat and started organizing the other night. I am primarily a jig fisherman, but think I have gone overboard this year. In skirted jigs only, not counting plain jigs for grubs, hula grubs, etc., I had 198 in the boat. All the way from 1/8 to 7/8 ounce in every color imaginable. I'm sick with the disease. Anyone else as bad as me?

There are a lot of us here in MO that throw those little light jigs. Of course the Eakins boys are famous for their jigs and their prowess with them. I prefer to throw on a baitcaster. I'm just a little more accurate that with a spinning road. I use a Shimano Crucial rod in a medium light action. It's an old Crucial, not sure if the new ones come that light or not. I spool up with 10 lb. yellow power pro. If the water's clear which it usually is, I use a 6' leader of green 10 lb. Big Game. If I go to Table Rock or Bull Shoals, I'll generally use a 10' leader of 8 lb. fluorocarbon. Mike McCelland just won the BASS Open Championship on the Alabama river on just such a jig. I'll also throw the hair jigs when the water gets really cold. I like a fox hair jig from Cabela's (couldn't find the name) with 101 spin frog. Punisher in TN is also making very nice hair jig. There are times when the fish won't hit the skirted jig, but will just eat up the hair jigs.