Ive recently been learning to fish jigs so I picked up an assortment of strike king football and hack attack jigs to practice and perfect the art with, but i have noticed after a week or so that a few of the jigs show heavy wear on the head, chips of paint missing and big chunks of bare lead exposed. Should this be happening? I expect some wear and tear on a lure that is dragged and hopped across the bottom, but i expected a little more than a week before major chips appeared. On one of the hack attack jigs my 3rd cast with it tied on yielded a chip. Am i being to picky or paranoid?

 

Thanks for any help/ advice!

from strike king, ya thats normal. some jigs have better paint job than others, and strike king jigs are average at best

I'm still wondering how a jig can last you two weeks lol. They aren't really design to last forever, and the more mojo they have to me the better.

Also custom jigs with better baked on paint jobs seems to last a lot longer 

I bake mine after I paint them and rarely lose any paint but they rarely last long enough to lose paint so it's a wash really. They'll eat a plain leadhead just fine though so I wouldn't worry about it. 

buy some custom jigs from a someone and you wont regret it. i started making my own, and selling them and have had 0 issues with paint chipping after i bake them

Touch them up with fingernail polish.

 

I've never seen chipped paint to be a problem with bass eating a jig - some of my best are mostly paintless -

i usually lose mine before they get to that point!!!    

You may be hitting shoreline rocks at the water line, that will chip the paint.

Don't worry about chipped jig paint the don't care!

Tom

 

Well, at least yours live long enough to show signs of wear, most of mine hardly survive a fishing trip.

Or two consecutive casts!

 

23 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Or two consecutive casts!

 

A lotta times that´s one cast too many. 

But what the heck, you just can´t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. 

3 hours ago, Raul said:

Well, at least yours live long enough to show signs of wear, most of mine hardly survive a fishing trip.

This.^ I usually lose them long before I have to worry about re-painting them.

Tom

so it seems i need to worry less about the paint and more about actually having enough to fish with! 

 

5 hours ago, WRB said:

You may be hitting shoreline rocks at the water line, that will chip the paint.

Tom

 

This is my guess as well but since I do not own any SK jigs I cannot comment on their paint. I do know the paint of SK crankbaits is not very durable and half the time you can see the paint flaking off in the package.

 

Allen

Whats a good quality brand y'all recommend picking up?

OP I feel your pain, and the strrugle is real...........

I had a green pumpkin senko once that two of the little black flakes fell out of..............my life was never the same.

4 hours ago, bentron said:

Whats a good quality brand y'all recommend picking up?

i seriously recommend custom handtied jigs. you can buy them just about as cheap if bot cheaper than name brands and you wont regret it. bass baits buy and barter on facebook is a really good group

10 hours ago, bentron said:

so it seems i need to worry less about the paint and more about actually having enough to fish with! 

 

If you aren't casting them to where they can hang up and get lost then you are not casting  to where the fish are. The only jigs that can last several trips for me are swimming jigs.

I had Strike King jigs and they chipped whenever you hit anything.  I switched to Siebert Jigs and never looked back.  They don't chip.  I smoked a rock last year and figured my jig was done.  Nope, just a small dent on the jig, but paint held up surprisingly and there was no chips. Siebert sets new standards in paint durability.

10 hours ago, Ersteman said:

I had Strike King jigs and they chipped whenever you hit anything.  I switched to Siebert Jigs and never looked back.  They don't chip.  I smoked a rock last year and figured my jig was done.  Nope, just a small dent on the jig, but paint held up surprisingly and there was no chips. Siebert sets new standards in paint durability.

sounds good ill have to try some out, Where is best place to buy?

8 hours ago, bentron said:

sounds good ill have to try some out, Where is best place to buy?

Online, direct: http://www.siebertoutdoors.com/