Does anyone completely cut off the weedguards on their jigs? Not trimming them but getting rid of the whole thing. 

I dont, why do that when you can just buy jigs without weed guards?

I'm sure Cadman or Mike at Seibert Outdoors would make them w/o the guard and you wouldn't have to bother.  I put wg on most of my jigs except the swim bucktails.  You must have a lot of open water.

I dont cut any of but time to time I will fish a jig that I havent glued in a weed guard.

I have been fishing my jig design that dates back to 1971 without a traditional weed guard because I hate weed guards, they are fish guards! However.....the lakes are deep structured with sparse cover, mostly rocks and some wood. I use a spring to hold a section of worm to the jig eye for a weed guard.

Fish dart head jigs with exposed hook with a finesse worm.

The only time I fish a traditional weed guard jig is in heavy cover and that isn't often.

Tom

I make my own jigs, I don't make them with weed guards.

Like Tom said... I believe they can interfere with good hook sets, no doubt... But I thin mine by maybe 50 percent? Gives me a little protection and also makes hook ups go up, it's worked well for me!