I know we do a good job of keeping Sieberts Jigs in business but I'm curious how many jigs do you go through in a year? I know I loose one every now and then but I see guys getting hung up all day and just breaking them off. I saw a guy last weekend go through 5 or 6 in a span of 30min while fishing a rocky section of riprap. I know this isn't normal but do people really loose that many? I think I go through about 15-20 or less a year.

 

 

2 minutes ago, FishTank said:

I saw a guy last weekend go through 5 or 6 in a span of 30min while fishing a rocky section of riprap. 

 

Ain't no way I'd keep chucking the same lure over and over again.

 

Unless the bite was unreal and that's all they wanted. They would have to be good sized bass as well.

What the heck. LOL

Maybe a couple of hundred all jigs included.
 

I rarely go after a hung bait unless it’s expensive.  I don’t want to disturb the area for the cost of a bait especially if I am using light line.  I’ve been known to lose a dozen or more on a single brushy bank.

Outside of a plastic rig (texas, neko, ned), I lose maybe 1 or 2 lures per year of all types, jigs included.  Plastics I am a little more inclined to break them off if hung in a bad spot so a half dozen or so in a year.

No reason to repeatedly loose a jig in rip rap. Your presentation technique is simple wrong hanging up repeatedly or the jig head design isn’t right and too heavy weight jig. With rip rap don’t let the jig settle down into crevices, keep it moving.

1 made 100 custom hair jigs each year when fishing a few days each week and always and a some left over. Some days you loose 2 or 3 other times you can fish the same jig for several days. The key is jiggle the jig free and try different angles to free it.

Tom

I lose a lot of Keitech footballs, for whatever reason. Other jigs not so much; maybe one or two a month.

 

I have a couple Siebert jigs that are a decade old. 1/4 oz brush, Junebug with the purple head. Always shell out for wire tied. 

Football head was designed* to prevent the hook form rolling sides ways and lifting the hook upwards with line pressure. Football works best going down hill in steep rock structure.

Brush head ( Alien) is designed to go through brush with a hidden hook eye, it’s a stand up brush jig.

Tom

* The late Larry McCain.

I lost over 11 jigs in a day during my first year of bass tournaments. I was tying them on straight braid in rocky structure — let’s just say I learned my rookie lesson pretty fast. 

When I fish bridges from the bank in the winter, I can lose a quite a few and they're always really good jigs, like lil spottys, keitech footballs or snipers.  I know where the problem areas are, but the fish are in that structure.

The only type of jig that I loose on a regular basis are the hair jigs that I tie. There's one lake that I fish that stroking one is deadly. The problem is twofold as light line is needed and there is a lot of junk there to get hung on. I'll occasionally be able to straighten out a hook, but break-offs are just something I've learned to live with.

As for traditional 'bass' jigs, If I loose half a dozen a year, it's a lot.  I loose more to rusted hooks.

I tend to lose a lot of crappie jigs / lead-heads, as I am normally tossing them in trees or brush piles. Have found that the Scheels brand 1/16 oz jigs have hooks that are just light enough that I can pull and bend them, and free the jig. They are pretty cheap, so I don't mind losing them. 

 

With bass jigs, I'm normally tying them on 20lb braid...and cannot tell you the last time I lost one. I have pulled large branches from the water. Also have a nice lure retriever so I can go get them. I don't mind scaring the fish out of a spot...I can always come back another day. 

I lose about one or two jigs a year.  Most of my break offs occur when I snag a lay down or get hung up in the rocks.  If I'm snagged 10 to 15 feet off the bank I can usually get the jig back using the lure retriever.

This year I think I lost under 20 lures total.  Pretty solid.

 

I don’t lose baits much unless there’s secret braid or mono snarls in cover - I got nothing when that happens.

 

Sometimes I bend hooks out or break the line I’m stuck in but it’s pretty much a guaranteed loss when I find 60 feet of braid doing cats cradle in my favorite lay down.

I go through more Hula Grubs on football heads than anything else.  Lots of Ned rigs and wobble heads are donated.  

I lose a ton.  I’ve very rarely had a jig that I’ve bought in the beginning of the year make it through an entire season.  I lose them less often now that I have a canoe and can maneuver close enough to work them free.  The exception are football jigs I very rarely lose those.  

Off the top of my head I think I lost 6-7 jigs this year? And honestly they were my fault probably lol. Had a pretty good year not losing lures. Lost a buzzbait though first day out. Im Tying my own jigs now. So over the winter I’ll make a bunch ip to have a good stock. And some to give away. Ill

be pretty bored lol

I quit using jigs for this reason. I just pitch T-rigs now. Nothing worse than pitching to a laydown you know often holds good fish just to get hung up on the first cast. But if I was to use a jig for heavy cover it would be the Trashmaster. I have a couple so old the wire tied skirts and paint on the heads are almost gone. 

When fishing the chunk rock, concrete, and general detritus of the chgo lakefront my goal is more fish than jigs lost.  After about 4 years of narrowing my spots, I think I'm finally on the winning side of fish to jigs but just barely.  Today was a wash, first cast of a 1/2oz underspin landed directly in a crevice, and I only threw this hair jig 8-10 times after landing this on the dot 5lb smallie before the rocks ate another.  This is my risk/reward ratio....

 

 

 

  

 

scott

Back when I used to throw jigs from the bank I would commonly go through 5 per trip. It was legitimately more expensive than swimbait fishing. I've made a few adjustments that have almost eliminated my losses. 

 

1. I stopped throwing jigs from shore. When fishing rocks you are going uphill and the odds of snagging are just too high. When fishing laydowns the angle of approach means you are getting caught in the forks of the branches.

 

2. I started paying more attention to the weedguards. For open water structure fishing you don't need a strong weedguard but for flipping into trees you need a good one to not constantly hang up. I'm partial to the hack attacks. I throw them into the gnarliest branches without worry. 

 

3. Heavy line for heavy cover. I lost many a jig setting the hook on a fish deep in a tree with 15lb fluoro. I've been running 50lb braid either straight or to a 20lb fluoro leader.