Jig Man

I have had 2 NOCOs go bad in my boat. They quit bringing the batteries to full charge which ruined them. My electronics tech said they are seeing several NOCO issues. I switched to the new Minn Kota so far it is doing a great job. One of my regular fishing buddies has a MK in his boat that’s 14 years old and going strong.

If it has a transducer on it heat can destroy it. As for the tm itself I don’t know. Call M K customer service and ask them.

I used to buy them until I got tired of paying $3 and losing 4-6 per trip. I still buy their skirts in some colors but mostly I just come up with something close that works and even buying a $.79 skirt I don’t have much over a dollar in them.

There isn’t much difference. My 3/16 is a 1/4 football with the keeper cut off because I use a little nasty 2/0 hook and the keeper takes up too much of the hook. That jig in the pic is my version of the Jewell Pee Wee in basswhacker.

Finesse to me is 3/16 and under. I can use light weight setups for them. 5/16 and heavier get my regular jig setups.

I use 10, 12 and 15# on bait casters. I’ve never had any thing bigger than 8# that would work on a spinning reel.

I’ve been ordering from them for years. I just ordered 200 Dalmation tabs this morning.

Here you go. https://www.lurepartsonline.com/Eagleclaw-L2173-Largemouth-XH-Swim-Jig-5-0-hook?page=1

Have you looked into the startup cost of pouring jigs? It can quickly run into the $100s with everything one needs.

Around here they use night crawlers.

Looks like you are on your way. Good deal.

Check your pm.

So why did you post?

Do any of you make them? Are you equipped to do several hundred?

You might want to do both screw lock and super glue jell together.

I use the glue. I have mend-it but these baits are beyond anything it can do.

I actually have more of the Diryt Jigs guppy heads than I do Keitechs.

The way you describe it is very much like my wife does a beef roast in the slow cooker. But we just eat it with vegetables, not on bread.

I used screw locks for a while. I even made my own but I got tired of them and switched to super glue gel.

It is in the mid 90s here every day with water surface in the upper 80s. The thermocline is at 30’. I expected the fish to be deep but they weren’t. We caught spots and smallmouth in 4-10 feet of water. We caught 44 in half a day. I can’t wait to get back down there. A big jug of ice water, a big brim hat, and my neck fan and I am good to go. It’s 92° here right now and I just came in from making twin tail trailers for swim jigs for Monday.

That must be very regional. I’ve never even heard of that before.

I wear prescription Costas. I put up with the splashes and drips until I get back to the truck. Then I pull out a wipe and clean them.

It looks like the toothpick might be a bit large for a 2.8 Keitech. I’ll try it tomorrow and see how it does. I know that I can try other baits but I have a couple of hundred Keitechs.

We don’t have anywhere near the size of smallmouth that you do and they have been hard to find lately. However yesterday with a mile high sky and southwest wind we found them on the tip of a rocky peninsula in 4-10 feet of water. We caught close to 20 up to 4.5# on swim baits and Ned rigs. I had been considering bluffs and bluff ends thinking that with surface temperatures in the upper 80s they might be close to the thermocline 30’.

When in my boat I just toss them on the deck out of my way. After I get home I put them back where they belong. When in someone else’s boat I drop them next to my tackle bag. When the trip is over I put them in the bag on top of the he boxes. When I get home and empty the bag, I put them where the belong and store them in the boat bait compartment.