Not a big jig fan but I've been wanting to play around with making them.. Here's some I made this week. Custom painted the head's and made the skirts. Think I went a little overboard on the orange but they look good...

I think they look just fine, lots of action with the skirt, being as full as they are.To me some of the bluegill pattern look good as well as the purples.

I think you did a great job.  For a first attempt, they are above and beyond what some people can do.    I haven't tried making any myself, as I have thrown a jig maybe 100 times in the last few years...  I am not partial to it, especially since our lake has so few lay downs to throw them on...  I like all the colors.  Especially the orange!  They seem pretty full.  You could also always go to the ones you don't like, and trim them up a bit, and add a trailer to it. 

I'm not real big on them either. Here in Fl it's grass, grass, grass so a plastic craw and flippin' weight kinda take the place of a jig. I've caught a few dink's on jig's around brush pile's but I'm going to keep giving it a try...

Try dragging them, when the wind blows.  Drift with the wind, and drag it on the bottom, near points, and drop offs.  This causes the fish to frenzy, out here in California. 

They look good, I fish the jig a lot, and I would fish those!

Very nice looking jigs. Are those air brushed or powder painted? As far as not fishing a lot of jigs. I was the same way a year ago. You would never catch me with a jig it was always a crankbait. The only time I used jigs was for walleye and sauger. Then in May last year I went with a semi-pro friend fishing and he just started to kick my butt fishing a jig for bass. He showed me his technique and how he fished a jig and I've never looked back. My bass catching percentages went up 100% on a weekly basis. Also I catch bigger bass now. I was never a great bass fisherman with a crankbait but adding jigs to my arsenal has really changed my bass fishing.

Their airbrushed and clearcoated with devcon 2 ton.. You aren't going to share some of those jig fishing tip's are you? lol.. We've got grass for day's down here in Fl and if their not getting snagged in grass their getting hung in wood! I started fishing them on 65# braid (same line I flip with).

Try this.  When you toss your jig out, strip out line as it sinks, this gives it a vertical drop, which is usually going to keep it closer to an object, or structure, where the bass are sitting.  If you don't do this, and you reset your thumb bar, it will cause it to pendulum, away from the fish. 

Next tip, get good at laying that jig in the water, with minimal splash.  The quieter you can hit the water, the better, especially in shallow water!  I find, that pitching sometimes helps me with this, versus flipping.  It's not always true, sometimes we get in a hurry to catch fish, especially in a tournament. 

Something else, is to match the hatch.  Look at the baitfish around the area, are the bluegill, shad, crawfish, or something else?  Try catching one of the fish, and look at the colors.  Then match the jig you are throwing, that that fish, assuming it is your main forage.  If you can match them as closely as possible, the bass will look at it as an easy meal falling.

Trimming skirts to make the jig look less full, or adding strands to make it thicker are also going to help to make the bait more tantalizing to the bass.  If it's cooler water, I tend to add more strands, giving it a slower fall rate, and give it more bulk, making it more likely for the bass to nab it, in it's lethargic state.

Also, adding different larger trailers, help in the fall rate, and adding bulk.

Removing strands when the water is warmer, causes the bait to drop quicker, giving the bass less time to react, this causes the typical slam, or reaction strike.  Smaller trailers will also make the jig look more like a craw fish.

If all that fails, or the water is cold, try dragging a 3/4 oz. jig, with a chigger craw, or your favorite trailer.  Look for the colors of the craw fish, only if you can see them.  Try finding out what color they might be, from books, or the internet.  This will greatly improve your odds of hooking the fish. 

I usually throw a PB&J jig, all year long, depending on the depth of the water.  The deeper the water, the less likely the craw fish have changed, due to the thermalcline.  Water deeper down will stay cooler, than the water on top.  The only way to tell is to drop a thermometer down, and check. 

Stay close to the color of forage, unless the fish won't strike.  If they won't hit anything, throw them something they might not have seen.  Neons, oranges, yellows, brighter greens.  Usually it will get the attention of the fish, and they will want to go check it out.

Hope this info helps.  I don't know everything, and this is all I have learned from the teachings of Gary Cline, and books.  See if you can find any videos of Gary Cline, about throwing jigs.  He is the master of that technique! 

Very good info man! Another question for you jig guy's. What kind of cover are you throwing jigs to. I see lot's of guy's throwing to riprap, rock's, isolated tree's, etc. We dont have lot's of that kind of structure here in Fl. Well we do have plent of stump field's but it's hard to beat a big worm or crank in those. The rest is hycinth's, hydrills, very muddy bottoms, and knarly laydowns that will hand just about anything unless your flipping a craw.

Try pitching the jig around the base of the stumps. I have caught some giants that way. Use the braid you have and a dark colored jig. The payoff could be nine pounds

Also, get flippin' jig heads instead of footballs, they won't get hung up as much.

Cool deal, thank's for all the great info. I'm determined to catch something decent on these dang thing's.. Hopefully I can get you all a pic soon...

Here on some local areas I fish them : Stumps/tree laydowns, Long tapering points/flats, shelfs, humps, weedlines!

Dude, toss it to the stumps!  Strip line out, and let it fall, the fish will take it on the fall! 

those look real good...keep up the good work

heads look great, get a picture of it submerged, want to see that skirt flared!

good work brother!

I fish my football heads arounds the rocks for smallies.

1. your jigs look killer.

2. i am with ya on the jig fishing here in forida. the only time i fish a jig is when i swim them through the pads/grass/pencil grass etc.

i use a paca chunk and cast to the shore and swim it back to the boat. usually in the spring is when that bite works.

Those look 100 x's better than anything I could have done.

throw jigs ANYWHERE. rocks, weeds, open water, deep water, shallow water, stumps, laydowns, a hump, a depression... basically anything that will hold fish.  in florida its tough to beat swimming a 5/16 sparkie head with a twin tail grub through that kissimmee grass you have down there.  one thing that i have learned is to match the jig to the water color.  a little orange once in a while can be great, but i really like a green pumpkin/green in clear water and more of a green pumpkin in dirtier water.  the idea is to blend into the surroundings so when that jig goes by the fish all it sees is a blur of something and that causes a reaction bite.