Jig Man

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.

What is its purpose? Would a small piece of wire do the same job? This is a sample of what I am talking about. The other thing is the bait gets thrown if the fish jumps.

Today I got into a mix of spotted bass and smallmouth. I was using the Keitech swing impact fat in 2.8 with a dirty jigs 1/8 oz guppy head. It took 8 baits to land 15 fish. I love them but the little buggers are fragile. Do any of you have a hack to extend their life?

Many of the suppliers don’t cater to small businesses very well. The local shop that I use has several suppliers who won’t honor an order unless it exceeds $1000. He usually orders twice a year. So for those things I really want I have to plan ahead or order online.

By like 90%

I had all kinds of trouble with units killing batteries. At first it was Lowrance hds units. Later I switched to Humminbird Solix units and the same thing happened. I was using 2 series 31 agm batteries parallel and only having the sonar units hooked to them. I charged the batteries with an onboard unit after every trip. Within 11 months they killed both batteries grave yard dead. They were replaced and 11 months later those were dead. I now have a 100 ah lithium hooked to them and all has been good for over a year. I am mentioning this only as a heads up to pay careful attention to the batteries.

I can only speak for local conditions. Around here color often plays an important role in catching fish. One of my regular fishing buddies and I typically start with different types of baits. If one of us catches a couple we stop and regroup. Often we wind up with the same bait in different colors tied on 4 setups. We each use different colors until we find out what is working best. Then both use it as long as it produces. At the end of our smallmouth Ned fishing a TRD new money was way out producing every other color. I had 3 colors tied on and new money was all I could get fish on. It was the same for my partner.

Mike lately it has been brown with a little orange along with a rage craw trailer in upper Table Rock above Shell Knob.

Not them. One of the guys for whom I make jigs is a black/ blue nut and gets them. I might part with the jigs that Tom doesn’t consider to be pb&j.

Nope it is silicone. The light wasn’t picking up the purple.

Finally someone who actually understands the question.

You might want to take and record some measurements of the different rollers.

Since I pour my own and buy hooks by the thousand my cost goes somewhat like this; hook $.25, 2 skirt tabs $.40, lead and paint inconsequential, time irrelevant so $.65-70 per jig plus I pour my own trailers for $.0675 each. That’s why I do my own.

For me it is black/blue and pb&j. I’ve never caught a single one on either of them. What is your jig color that won’t work?