Saw a guy on the basspros show today throwing a jig on spinning gear.Never saw this done.Was wondering if any of you have done it,and your success or failure?BTW it was a small 5/16th jig.

For skipping under docks and other overhanging structure, spinning gear makes it easier.

Jigs are not for baitcasting gear only. Baitcasters can do a lot of things very well....until you start to go light. Then the spinning rigs excel. However....going the other way, there's nothing a spinning rig can't do. I know a lot of guys will disagree with that, but I've caught just about everything - big & small - on a spinning rig. 

I saw that same show btw.

Jigs are not for baitcasting gear only. Baitcasters can do a lot of things very well....until you start to go light. Then the spinning rigs excel. However....going the other way, there's nothing a spinning rig can't do. I know a lot of guys will disagree with that, but I've caught just about everything - big & small - on a spinning rig.

I saw that same show btw.

I too agree, I have used spinning  gear with 1/4 to 3/8 oz jigs. it also depends on the rod too! A 7 ft. spinning rod MH action and a fast tip.

I occasionally use a MF spinning rig to skip docks with 1/4 oz jigs..but only jigs up to 5/16oz.

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I'm going to use a bunch on spinning gear this year. 1/8 and 1/4 small finesse jigs with tiny chunks and tiny paca craws....

Part of my resolution to finesse-i-phy all my presentations this year.

I'll still use 3/8 and 1/2 jigs on casting equipment for pitching and swimming jigs.

As said before match the rod to what you are throwing, up here in MN spinning gear seems to be the preference for most rec fisherpeople. I see lots of people throwing jigs with spinning gear. A good MH to H spinning rod with a fast tip should handle just about any bass jig. I regularily throw smaller finesse jigs with a 7'm with a fast tip and never have a problem with hookups.

Anytime I am finesse fishing I use a spinning rod. I do this because I have better control and more confidence with a spinning rod.

I throw lots of jigs on spinning gear, especially when targeting docks.

I'm not the only one, Guido Hibdon winning the Lake Champlain event on the FLW Tour in '07-  here's his technique..."Once he got a solid limit from the grass each day, Hibdon moved to shallow docks to do what he does best: stalk big largemouths in hard-to-reach places by skipping a jig.

His skipping jig was a 3/16-ounce jig teamed with a brown Guido Bug trailer. The jig was tied to 15-pound-test Trilene braided line on a spinning reel.

I use bright yellow braid so I can see my line better up under those dark docks, he revealed. I color the first few feet of the braid just up from the jig with a dark green marker, but the rest of it is bright yellow so I can see when one of those big suckers starts swimming off with it.

Hibdon caught his kicker largemouth today on the very last dock he fished at 2:30 p.m."

 

In the hands of an accomplished angler a spinning reel can do anything a bait casting reel can and visa versa

I almost always have a swimming jig rigged, and my outfit for that is a 6-6MH spinning rod with 12-14lb line. I have a range of spinning rigs covering 4 to 17lb line. I tend to use casting gear for crank-intensive techniques: SBs, larger CBs, and for winching fish out of heavy cover.

Of course you can use jigs on spinning gear, been doing it for years.  My brother use to use a baitcaster, but now he has switched over to spinning.  I overall like the presentation better.

I've been using the Pee Wee Gitzit and it's been doing really well on smallmouth bass.

I use spinning gear for jigs.  A fish does not know what is on the other end of the line.  It makes no difference to the fish if the spool is stationary or revolves.

Anytime I fish a jig on 10 lb or less the spinning rod gets the job.  My buddies and I like Hula Grubs which is more of a Jig than grub (spider jig ) for smallmouth and spinning rules for that application.

Strike King Bitsy Bugs and Bitsy Flips in 1/8 oz and 3/16 oz. Add a Paca Chunk and you are good to go. I fished these on a MF spinning rig last season and did very well. I used Sufix 20 lb braid with a mono leader.