What would be the reason for picking a vertical over horizontal or vice versa? I'm looking at finesse jigs and confused. I fish primarily rocks with some isolated wood, salt cedars, willows and tumble weeds. Don't laugh it's all we got for cover here.

vertical line tie is favored for grass because it parts the grass easier, horizontal is favored for other stuff because its slightly harder to get wedged into small cracks and whatnot

When it comes to jigs everyone has their own personal repertoire of confusion!

 

What I look for in a jig is a smooth transition from the line to the eye & around the belly, which requires the eye (either one) to be slightly rolled forward. The reasoning is I want my jig to follow the line up to the cover & then slide over or through the cover smoothly. I want a quality brush/weed guard & a quality hook, both are more important to me than head design.

 

If I'm working a shoreline or offshore structure I do not switch jigs just because the cover changed; I can cast, swim, flip, pitch, or punch any style jig!

Catt,

Thanks for the reply, would you have a photo to show what your describing? I'm not experienced with jigs and honestly have avoided fishing them as I constantly donate them to my local lake. But it's time for me to move past that and figure out how to effectively fish them here.

The traditional verticle hook eye design has worked forever. Rotating the eye 90 degrees to horizontal or what is called a flat eye jig hook is a more recent design and claims to help the jig hook point stay upright inside a basses mouth and working over rocks without snagging or rolling over. The only flat eye jigs I use are Owner Ultra and Picasso shakey head jigs because that is how they are made. The jigs I make for over 45 years have standard vertical hook eyes and see no reason to change.

Tom

 

13 hours ago, Swbass15 said:

Catt,

Thanks for the reply, would you have a photo to show what your describing? I'm not experienced with jigs and honestly have avoided fishing them as I constantly donate them to my local lake. But it's time for me to move past that and figure out how to effectively fish them here.

 

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Thank you both ill see what I can find like that

52 minutes ago, Swbass15 said:

Thank you both ill see what I can find like that

 

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