Jig Man

Where I buy my tires the give me a free rotation and inspection twice a year. My trailer is 9 years old and has worn out 2 sets of tires as I fish close to 100 days per year. The last time I had the tires rotated the guy said by the December rotation I should plan on replacing the brakes. This is a 20' tandem axle trailer with brakes on the back axle carrying over about 3000 #s of boat, motor, gasoline and gear.

My pump came from Wally World and the rest from Lowe's. Total was about $30 and I have enough pvc for at least a dozen cups.

I have both brands in my units. I find them to be right on in certain places in the lakes that I fish and way off in others. Nav seems to be worse than Hot Spots for depth in open water flat areas.

I bought a bunch of them and don't like them at all. I find it hard to keep fish on with them.

Most ramps are accessible but the courtesy docks are mostly on the bank. It should be coming back up if we get some rain because the water is being held for work below the dam. The COE told me that it will have to get 24' above power pool before they would even consider letting water out.

That is the only glue that I use on wg.

Green pumpkin and pumpkin seed are the main colors that I use even though I have a bunch of colors.

Head up one of the rivers and get to the gazillions of shad. I fished there Friday and a white spinnerbait did the early morning job for me. Then I used plastics. Either put in at High Point or Rouark Bluff.

When I am fishing alone I rig 6-10 setups. I normally make 5 casts with one then change if I haven't had a strike.. When I have gone through the 6 on the deck, I go to the back and swap out for the others. Once I get on some fish, I usually stick with that "type" of bait and try different colors.

I have a hand held with lake mapping that I take with me in other guys boats. I use it for wpts and trails to help me navigate back up stumpy or shallow areas at a later date. If I were in the back seat in a tournament, I'd talk to the boater and tell him why I want to have it on and if he objects, leave it in the bag.

A-Jay it sounds like you have them all in one file. I got tired of lots of clutter and decided to organize my wpts into lake files. It was some work but it has been a good thing. I delete wpts before I go to a different lake so that I can mark spots during a trip then look at them when I get home. If I want to keep them I save the new file over the old one which is on my puter, if not then I just delete them from my units.

Once you use a fluid bed you won't want to use the jars any longer. I'm sending you a link to a tutorial in a pm.

Yes if you want to drive to Spfld MO

Good quality snaps: jerk baits, crank baits, jigging spoons Direct tie: everything else

I have been usng the blades from Ztackle for a long time. I find them to be just fine.

Try lacquer thinner before you go to sanding, etc.

A friend of mine swears by trigged sticks but I haven't had much on them. For me they produce better wacky or shaky.

Why are you adding grease? Do you have an indicator that shows a need for grease? It would behove you to check your seals. I haven't added any to mine since I redid them 4 years ago.

I use the same weight rod with 8# but I go for a number 1 hook instead of a 2.

I had the pic issue with one of my host sites. When I contacted Glenn he said that site had been banned. Maybe yours is too.

I've tried all kinds of stuff and all sizes of boxes. I can never settle on just what works every time. However, for the last year or so I have been the 3600 size boxes and have a box for 1 oz and 3/4, a box for 1/2 oz, a box for 3/8 oz and a box for 1/4, 3/16, and 1/8 oz. That way all I have to do if pick up the box for the size of jig I want to throw then look for the color combo I want. I try to keep 4-6 of each color that I carry in the boxes and take along an emergency bag that is kept in the truck, just in case. As for trailers, when I get done with a jig I drop it on the deck. When I am back home and the jig is good and dry, I'll remove the trailer and put the jig back in its box if it isn't damaged. The trailer I normally deep six. I don't put trailers back in jig boxes due to moisture and salt.

I used a lot of different Icons representing different things. One of my favorite was looking a the map and picking spots to fish at night and marking them with a STOP sign. Sadly, my new unit doesn't have an icon feature.

A black bucktail jig with a #11 pork frog trailer slow rolled like a swimjig can be deadly for smallies around here.

I like a good stiff breeze to bucking and bouncing if I am fishing swimjigs, spinnerbaits or cranks. Best of all is a wind that has blown from the same direction for at least 3 days. In that amount of time algae will be moved to the bank on the water currents, zooplankton will follow the algae, bait fish which feed on the zooplankton will follow the zooplankton and bait fish eaters will position themselves at attack points for easy meals. From early September until early December I wait for the weatherman to say 15 mph or higher then I pick my banks and hook up the boat.

If you are not good with jigs, why not try swimming them. All you have to do is put on a trailer, cast it out and slow roll it back. When you feel a pickup don't set the hook. Just keep reeling unitl the fish has it and is putting a lot of pressure on. Most of the time you don't even have to set the hook. The fish will do that for you.