Are these a good choice if you lake does not have shad. Lakes here mainly have bluegill,crappie,crawfish and bass mainly and I'm worried it's meant for lakes with shad or a congregation of bait fish deep

1 hour ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

Are these a good choice

Yes. You could also get or tie some in darker gill/perchie colors if it will help between the ears.

4 hours ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

Are these a good choice if you lake does not have shad. Lakes here mainly have bluegill,crappie,crawfish and bass mainly and I'm worried it's meant for lakes with shad or a congregation of bait fish deep

Seth feider and others fish them very successfully in Minnesota waters with the predominate forage as bluegill or perch.   He uses both white and the greenish with orange.  I added it to use this year.  Time will tell if it works for me. 

7 minutes ago, Fishin Dad said:

Seth feider and others fish them very successfully in Minnesota waters with the predominate forage as bluegill or perch.   He uses both white and the greenish with orange.  I added it to use this year.  Time will tell if it works for me. 

Interesting there’s no shad there? I’ve seen the same videos I ask because I thought it was mainly good if you seen a large school of bass with baitfish near by

im not sure about straight jigs because the water is dingy to muddy. Best i can hope for is 2-3 ft vis. Anyone ever had success in lower visibility water?

Ive tied a couple so far. I actually did an all black one and attached a vibrating jig blade. Caught one smallie in the river then proceded to snag it, but def potential up north here.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Bdnoble84 said:

Best i can hope for is 2-3 ft vis. Anyone ever had success in lower visibility water?

I can't think of a lure that wouldn't work in 2'-3' of vis. That's like fish beer goggles territory...

41 minutes ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

Interesting there’s no shad there? I’ve seen the same videos I ask because I thought it was mainly good if you seen a large school of bass with baitfish near by

Many of the lakes fished around here with those “Chicken” jigs are bluegill lakes.  Not Shad lakes.   With todays technology, nobody seems to cast unless they see fish.   

24 minutes ago, Fishin Dad said:

Many of the lakes fished around here with those “Chicken” jigs are bluegill lakes.  Not Shad lakes.   With todays technology, nobody seems to cast unless they see fish.   

Ugh that's so gross. Part of the rush for me is the mystery. Did I throw to the right spot? 

Define “large” hair jig?

The 5” to 6” 1 oz white hair jigs used for ledge fishing?

Hair jigs have been around a long time, the “jig & pig” came from hair jig with pork rind trailer popular 70 years ago.

My hair jigs 7/16 oz with 5/0 Gamakatsu hook and 3” to 3 1/2” long with 3” to 4” pork rind trailer are 6” to 7” long.

Crawdad and shad colors work year around. 

Black-purple-brown tri color hair jigs work Anytime Anywhere.

Dark brown-olive Green-brown,Spring craw.

Brown-red- chartreuse, Fritz good Smallmouth color.

black/dark green- white, Shad color

Black-blue, Midnight.

Tom

30 minutes ago, WRB said:

Define “large” hair jig?

The 5” to 6” 1 oz white hair jigs used for ledge fishing?

Hair jigs have been around a long time, the “jig & pig” came from hair jig with pork rind trailer popular 70 years ago.

My hair jigs 7/16 oz with 5/0 Gamakatsu hook and 3” to 3 1/2” long with 3” to 4” pork rind trailer are 6” to 7” long.

Crawdad and shad colors work year around. 

Black-purple-brown tri color hair jigs work Anytime Anywhere.

Dark brown-olive Green-brown,Spring craw.

Brown-red- chartreuse, Fritz good Smallmouth color.

black/dark green- white, Shad color

Black-blue, Midnight.

Tom

I beleive everyone is talking about the big preacher style jig that has became popular for ledge fish on the tva lakes

Also id love to see a picture of your jig and pig to get a better idea of what you are throwing

1 hour ago, WRB said:

Define “large” hair jig?

The 5” to 6” 1 oz white hair jigs used for ledge fishing?

Hair jigs have been around a long time, the “jig & pig” came from hair jig with pork rind trailer popular 70 years ago.

My hair jigs 7/16 oz with 5/0 Gamakatsu hook and 3” to 3 1/2” long with 3” to 4” pork rind trailer are 6” to 7” long.

Crawdad and shad colors work year around. 

Black-purple-brown tri color hair jigs work Anytime Anywhere.

Dark brown-olive Green-brown,Spring craw.

Brown-red- chartreuse, Fritz good Smallmouth color.

black/dark green- white, Shad color

Black-blue, Midnight.

Tom

Preacher Jig Style  3/4-1oz size usually white. That’s why I was concerned if it was even worth building a set up for it on my Midwest lakes( no shad and not to many deep areas) but have heard it’s a go to technique for deeper water fish. 

Outcast Tackle Chicken Hair Jig offers a decent non-shad  bluegill color and jig head design that can make bottom contact.

Looking at TW all the preacher style hair jigs use a fish head top eye design jig. This style started out as a open water stripe bass swimming jig and became popular as a ledge jig replicating Gizzard shad. The issue with top eye fish head jigs is snagging weeds/grass constantly fishing deeper weed beds, you rip to remove weeds/grass.

Tom

PM with email for hair jig photos.

I ordered a few off tw a while back, but I like trying to support some smaller bait makers. Anyone have any smaller ones that make a ledge preacher style with bucktail or similar non synthetic hair.