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My two sons and I use Boomerangs for the last 5-6 seasons since all of use use one or more setups with braided line now. B-rangs cut 15-65lb braid like its mono.

Thanks for the heads up. Just so happens I just bought a bunch of Zoom Super Chunks just for pairing them with my Dredge jigs.

Your jigs sir as so pretty looking they are like my mint condition JM stamped Marlin 336c 35 Remington lever action rifles featuring such absolutely gorgeous walnut and bluing I don't want to use them for fear of damaging them.

Just received my order of Seibert Dredge Brush jigs and Megalodon Brush jigs and I must say they are of absolutely superb quality. I bought a few OTC jigs each from four other well known jig manufacturers and there is no comparison between any of them and the Seibert Outdoors jigs. If like me you are just starting out using bass jigs for the first time especially stand up jigs for bottom dragging for bass I can not recommend strongly enough you give Seibert Outdoors bush jigs a hard look. And very reasonably priced especially for the quality of them.

My youngest REALLY has the fishing bug and also has the patience and concentration to be an effective soft plastic fishermen. I assembled him a collection of my soft plastics that has essentially every class of soft plastic bait you can fish T-rigged or with a screw-lock hook. Including some at least 15 year old Berkley Power Bait worms that have a very large profile. He tried one in metal flake darker blue body with a fire ribbon tail on a local lake and caught 9 bass in four hours on a at least 15 year old soft plastic worm.

Thank you didn't know that was a factor.

To begin with I ordered a few Siebert Outdoors Megalodon brush jigs.

Thanks again for the suggestions and helping to educate me on the finer points of jig fishing. I just figured out I when I am listing to YT fishing channels I often forget their lurer buying recommendations are made under the assumption those that are going to fallow their buying advice are also so boat fishermen like they are, hence the popularity of Arkie style jig heads for P&F which is essentially never an option for a shore fishermen.

Thank you for educating me. As I currently do zero P&F of jigs I will stay away form Arkie head jigs.

Looking for a good no heavier than 3/8oz stand up bass jig to buy. Not a bare jig head talking complete with skirt and weed guard.

Why exactly do do you not like Arkie head jigs? I know next to nothing about bottom contact bass jigs but based on a lot of videos I thought Arkie heads were effective and popular Lastly is a stand up jig head called that or another name.

Just my thoughts, but if you're using 30-65lb braid and you get hung up, can't you just wrap the braid around a solid fail safe object like wooden rod and just straighten out the snagged hook(s) and get your lure and line back?

In an effort to remain as economical as is practical and considering I am predominantly a shore fisherman am I correct in thinking limiting my jig selection to football heads and banana shaped Arkie jig head as I feel I am best served by a jig head design(s) that makes the bait present the hook and trailer pointing up at a 45* angle more or less. I didn't get to fish jigs at all last year and my spring fishing got wrecked by work so I am just now amassing my jig and trailers selection. I wish to purchase a bunch of Seibert Outdoors Grid Iron Arkie jigs to get me started.

Greatest of thanks for all the replies. Helped both simplify things and save me a little money.

Please clarify exactly which WSL you are recommending as there are quite a few.

Thanks for the color suggestion. I have had good success using purple collared worms. Are you T-rigging the wacky worms in the center to get both haves to still flap as it falls? Otherwise it's not behaving like a wacky worm. Thanks to all. Will assemble the Wacky kits with the colors I listed along with a purple worm and my Black/Blue-metal flake worms already have a blue tipped tail. Again thanks to all for the replies.

6 years ago was in my local Cabela's and saw the weirdest looking jig I ever saw. Looked at it and it was called a bladed jig/bladed jig. Thought it looked pretty neat and the Cabela's version was like $5 so I bought one in black/blue metal flake, one in Chart/white, one in GRN/PUMP, one in blue gill all 3/8oz models. Went in You Tube watched my favorite fishing influencers on how to fish a bladed jig and what trailers to use went back to Cabela's bought those trailers and went fishing next day. It was the first week of April we had an unusually warm spring and quite a few days of 50-55* weather water temps were in the low 50's. On the advice of my favorite fishing influencer I threw a blue/black metal flake with a avocado red fluke as the trailer. I was absolutely astonished on how well I did absolutely smashed the bass. Next day caught my PB bass from that lake on the same black/blue metal flake with a red trailer. Over the last six years my sons and I have absolutely murdered the bass using Chatterbaits.

I have those pens in both colors along with the liquid dip in every tackle box, my fishing vest and all tackle BPs. I know beyond all doubt adding orange and chartreuse to my lurers to mimic panfish or craw fish have helped me catch a lot more fish.

My boys and I are mostly shore fishermen and everything we use has to fit in a tackle backpack. Putting together a Plano box for each of us for Wacky worm fishing. Have room for 5 possibly seven colors in the box along with O rings, and assorted hooks and so far I know these four colors are solid day in day out choices in the lakes within 40-50 miles of my home: *Watermelon Red Flake *Green Pumpkin Blue Flake *Blue-Black Metal Flake *Bubble Gun Magic Anyone know of two or three more colors I should add?

Was going through my soft plastics in storage recently and discovered a 10-12qt storage tote full of Zoom 6" and 4" Brush Hogs so many in fact its just not possible to use even half of them up fishing them T-rigged so I was wondering what more experienced jig fishermen than I think of using them primarily as jig trailers but also as trailers for spinnerbaits and chatterbaits. I would if need be cut them as needed to the correct length.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm still in the learning/try our stage fishing jigs and don't know much beyond I'm trying to fish jigs that closely resemble the panfish and crayfish in the lakes I fish. Lakes I fish are chocked full of panfish and crayfish more so than any other larger forage for bass. Few years back wondered into my local Cabela's and they had a discount bin full off 3.75" and 4.25" creature baits very very cheap so I bought a lot in colors I knew worked in my lakes fishing plastic worms, creatures, brush hogs and flukes. Like Watermelon BLK-FLK/RF, watermelon BF, BLK/BLU/MF, Tilapia, GP/RF, GP/BF, Okee craw figured that should cover all bases. Again thanks to all for the replies.

Was wondering for fishing jigs on the bottom like a T-Rigged worm how important is it you CLOSELY as possible match you jig trailer to your jig color. I understand a jig that is predominantly only one color or only two or three trailer color selection is simple and straight forward. But what foes one do when they are a multitude of 4-6 different colors? For example what color trailer would you use with these color jigs L-R:Green Pumpkin Craw, Alabama Craw and PPJ. As their skirts' are made up of a multitude of different colors. Do you try to find a multi color trailer that matches as closely to your jig as possible, or do you just use a trailer that color matches the jigs one or two most predominant color or colors?

Just FTHOI I had my son this time last year try a 10" BPS ribbon tail worm in Blue Flex and he caught 8 bass in six hours. He's currently in summer school for collage and between school and work has had few off days to fish and he is counting the hours till summer school ends this thursday as he and his buds are leaving for a trip two day to Cedar Point AP in Ohio and three days of bass fishing some local lakes we found over the last three tips I took he and his brother to Cedar Point AP. One spot is two larger pounds right next to each other that don't look like they hold a goldfish but we did outstanding there back in June so I'm hoping he and his friends will do as well. First time I ever used a 10" worm was in 1989 while fishing friends private lake in the middle southwest of Indiana on the suggestion of the our host. I then was use to only ever using 6 or 7' worms and couldn't believe a 10lb bass could eat a worm that big but man was I ever wrong. Cought all the 1.5-3lb bass I could ever want on that 10" worm I'm guessing was a Culprit. Remember it was black grape in color. I didn't realize at that age just how lucky I was to get to fish three strip pit lakes full of bass crappie and bluegills almost nobody ever fished for. ONLY time in my life I ever caught over 50 largemouth bass in a day, day after day.

What color is your fave? I keep seeing all the YTers claiming purple or variations of purple are best in summers hottest months I've watched literally countless dozens of underwater videos of 100% wild bass from 1.5lbs to 5+pounders in their natural habitat completely engulf and spit out every type of soft bait and jig on the market on a slack line so fast I KNOW I must miss a HUGE number of bass because they engulfed and rejected my bait before I ever had a chance to sence them on my line. That's why when I'm fishing a soft plastic or any bottom bumping bait I now only use high vis braid to copolymer and watch my braid as closely as possible.

Thank you. I need to broaden my lure use, despite having them all listed, I only ever use three on either list. I would have like to have seen the list before the advent of FFS.