Jig Man

My garage is 1100 sq ft with a truck and car bay on one side and a boat bay on the other. Between the boat bay and truck I have a work area where I pour all my baits both lead and plastic. The most important thing with lead is to not eat or smoke while pouring it and wash your hands when finished.

For the regular one I like a 1/0 Gammy. However, I recently bought the new mold that fits the Victory ewg hook and rigs up like a Trig. I am really liking it because it comes through all the rocks and limbs here on Table Rock. https://store.do-itmolds.com/weedless-midwest-finesse-jig

I was planning my first night trip buy the windy rainy weather is keeping me home.

It has been interesting to see what different ones of you call trash fish. Being in the middle of the country a lot of what some of you mentioned are completely foreign to me and I have no idea what they are.

Not on purpose.

Our local TV stations have weather aps that show daily, hour by hour, and radar. I have them on my phone, Ipad, and lap top. I use them before every trip to help me decide whether to go south to Table Rock or north to Stockton.

They don’t move easily so you will need a strong trolling motor.

I’ve never heard of a boat dealer offering a warranty other than selling the buyer a third party warranty. What part of the country are these dealers in?

I wish I had that kind of action. I just have green and brown fish.

I have a spot picked out in the yard next door that is about 30 yds farther than a cast. I tie the line on and walk to the spot unrolling the line. I cut the line go back pick up my reel and wind it up.

Heat shrink tubing, put it on and forget it.

I don’t thread them up to the keeper.

I use what ever Bass Pro sells. The way my rod locker is designed I have to have them to protect the line guides.

I never had it as a kid. We used to rub the leaves on our arms to prove how tough we were. A girl in the neighborhood would eat it. All of a sudden when I was in my 20s I got a terrible case and have been allergic ever since. I am told that with each exposure you absorb antibodies until the time that they overwhelm your system.

Mike you may want to check your stock. I just bought all of the 1/6 oz black and green with 3/0 hooks that you have listed.

When I switched the Mega si wasn’t available on the Ulterra. I wish that I could have gotten it.

Good luck. Power was working in the area of Table Rock lake that I fish but it died. Ned was all that I could get them to bite Friday.

No I don’t.

I normally use 12# and somewhere around 90 yards.

I’m just now responding because I hadn’t used the weedless until yesterday. Mine are very similar to what Mike Siebert has. I used TRDs fishing an area where I lost 15 regular heads last fall. I lost 2 of the weedless jigs in that area. I caught 27 bass up to 4# on them. Every fish was hooked in the roof of the mouth. None were close to gut hooked. I even managed a grand slam (lmb, smb, spots and a mean mouth). My first impression is that they are good.

I have closed the loop but I don’t recommend it.

I can’t answer your question but I can offer you a possible solution. I have found the R wires to be fragile. It only takes a few fish before the wire breaks. I have come up with a way to prolong the life of my spinnerbaits and not change how they work. I either wrap braided line or floral wire around the R bend then seal it with shrink tubing. I haven’t had a wire break since and can use a snap if I choose.

I did the upgrade once. I sent my Curados to a guy in Alabama for deep cleaning, super tuning, and ceramic bearings. That helped some, but not a lot. I also used to pull my bearings and soak them in naphtha or acetone to clean them, then put the latest greatest high speed oil on them. I finally went back to Shimano oil on my bearings. Now my regimen is when one is casting short I put a small amount of oil on the bearings and clean and oil the brake drum. I haven’t needed to soak them for a very long time.

It is a pretty big lake like 50,000 acres and 1000 miles of shoreline. Usually there is more than one pattern and it differs from area to area. 10 days ago they were on points and bluff cuts way up the James River. Now I don’t know because I’m not fishing down there.

Same here. I used to sell and buy new when they changed models until the E7.