Just wondering, do any of you folks ever cut the weed guard off of your jigs. The reason I ask is because I just bought some new jigs, and they have wire weed guards. Already stuck myself twice. If I had noticed this before, I don't know if I would have bought them.

Hootie

HELLO!..........Oh, never mind, it's Saturday.

Hootie

I never cut mine off and I never buy jigs with wire weed guards and yep it's Saturday. Football and Fishing.

The only weed guard I fish is light wire.

oe

I trim my weed guards slightly but never cut them off.

As long as you are fishing open water you could cut them off and not get hung up too much but I wouldn't do it. Most of the time if I'm fishing open water I'm fishing one of my football jigs that I put a much softer fiber weed guard on that doesn't take as much pressure to collapse down as one of my flipping jigs.

I'd suggest just bending the very end of the wire guard down towards the hook at a 90 degree angle so it is harder to stick yourself with.

I trim most fibre weed guards, but have never cut one off. I have plenty of jigs without any type of guard on them. I have, however, on numerous occasions removed the rattle(s) from a jig that I had tied on. It didn't always produce the results I was hoping for, but then there were times it did.

Guess I'm just a born tinkerer (is that a real word?)

I like wire guards on finesse jigs and ones I fish around docks. They are mostly lighter weights though. No reason to cut them off, just save them for specific conditions.