OkobojiEagle

Yep, I've watched that vid a couple times. There isn't a lot of internet buzz about this presentation. I put together one of these rigs a week ago and have been staring at it on my tackle table going through the presentation mentally in my head. (Yes it's frozen around here!) I'm picturing it dressed with a 4" tube/4" craw dragged with a few low hops through rock and weed flats. By mid-summer much of my lake bottom is covered with snot-slime algae. I'm thinking about adding a snap-swivel between the split-ring and weight to gain a little more room over bottom, but I visualize a cup of snot-slime dragging along with the swivel/weight. If I'm going to swim it above the slime then I don't see much advantage over the point tucked Brewer jig head I've been using. I'm looking for presentation experience with this rig... where, how, with what baits? oe

Is the Jika rig presentation a novelty destined to be totally replaced in history by the next boutique lure written about in "Internet Fishing Blog Daily", or does it have enough merit to become a mainstay in a generation of bass fishermen's techniques? Beyond Stacey King, has the Jika rig become a "go to" presentation for anyone here? oe

Their sale "exclusions" included EVERYTHING I was interested in... oe

Fishing walleye can give a different perspective to this conversation... Sam, I do want a weak spot in the line... at the knot to leave as little line as possible when I have to break off. oe

John's creative graphics aside; if you line up nylon mono, fluorocarbon mono and PE fishing lines along a continuum you'll find far less difference between brands of like composition lines than differences between lines of different composition. oe

I suggest you're going about this backwards. Determine what baits you want to use for a chosen presentation... then choose the rod/reel that best fishes that presentation/bait in the available cover. oe

weights vary with scales... length is more uniform between anglers. oe

John, you are the master of information... not all of it particularly useful, but the master all the same! oe

Considering our evolution into "text-write" are you certain you can read and understand a book written in 1881? oe

I prefer to celebrate Thanksgiving before I jump into the Christmas holiday... oe

Custom built... oe

I'm glad you were able to clarify that point Tom. oe

Those jigs listed above are all varieties of the skirted bass jig. I would add to your list various hare/hair jigs, as well as, a variety of plain jig heads dressed with your choice of plastic. oe

I tie jigs with bucktail, marabou and bunny strips, bucktail is the stiffest and breathes the least in the water. It will stand up more than the other dressings mentioned because it doesn't release the trapped air as easily. I tie on a modified Gopher Tackle prowler head (stand up design) and Brewer's spider head. These two heads have proven to be more weed free than other heads I've tied on over the years. The patterns I tie don't use plastic or pork but have the "trailer" tied into the pattern. I'm most successful letting the jig fall on a semi-taught line (yes it pendulums some) and lifting it off the bottom to pendulum back down after a short rest on the bottom... the length of rest is determined by response of the bass. I will also "swim" the jig if I can keep it within a foot of the bottom; wind and current can make this difficult. The bottoms I fish will not allow dragging an open hooked hair jig. oe

Is Fins windtamer a stiffer line than the PowerPro lines you're using? 4,6 or 8 carrier? oe

I pretty much agree with you here. The tightness of weave (pic count) and manner/amount of coating give individual braids their individual character. My bias is toward a tightly woven braid with a fair amount of stiffness. I find myself trying new lines each year but so far this has only validated my preference for Ultra-cast (Invisi-braid) on bait casters and original Fireline on spinning reels. Of course everyone's mileage will vary some... oe

You know what they say about opinions... well, John and I differ. I throw the Invisi-braid in 20lb on my baitcasters and I prefer it to the 832 and PP which I've tried. oe

VMC oe

How strong are your arms? oe

It is not an invisible braid, but is a very well made braid... tightly woven & thin. oe

Technical question: in what download format available by this publisher would the ebook be most readable from my computer without any additional reading software. Most online articles I want to save are copied into a word document and saved in that format. oe

I didn't think the article was very good at all. It skipped over years and the lures it chose to illustrate weren't the winning lures in many cases. oe

Keep your rod bent... when it pulls, pull back... don't break your string oe

Add a couple bags of the 4" Swimmin Ribster to your order and swim them on a plain jighead... oe By the way, the first word in your thread title is spelled "what" by Webster.

For those of you that want to use both a trailer and trailer hook... tie a bunny strip to the trailer hook shank extending about an inch beyond the bend. oe