So it's summer. Hair jigs are for winter, right? So I thought I'd test this "rule" out and fish a NorthStar hair jig last weekend, in the dead of summer...in the middle of a bright, sunny, hot day.

...Okay, I just got the jigs and they looked so good, I couldn't wait until winter, alright?!

So I go to my favorite smallmouth lake and fish a stretch of rocky bank where I've always found willing smallies eager to get a tour of my boat. I start throwing the hair jig, and catch.... a 3lb largemouth! What's really odd is that in over 30 years, I've never caught a largemouth on that bank...never!

Lesson: Whenever you find yourself following a "rule" of bass fishing, break it and see what happens. You just might be surprised!

Amazing how things can work out like that isnt it. And you are absolutely correct about doing things differently then what the norm is. Thats what ive been doing with my cranks and have been having amazing luck with it.

I always have a NorthStar hair jig tied on. I killed the smallmouth at Lake Winnipesaukee two weeks ago with them. 5ft of water on a bright blue bird day.

I bought several of the hair jigs a year or so ago and I throw them everytime I'm on the water no matter what season it is.

what trailers do you use with the hair jigs? I use paca craws for all my jigs, but it doesnt seem to look right on the hair jigs.

Paca craws, rage craws, my spaz chunks, are all good options in warm water, otherwise check out my line of chunks for colder water, they are really effective trailers

I agree with RR. Try someone with a little more action in the hot summer days; my favorite is a paca chunk and RR spaz chunk.

But for cold water I have not found a better match for a jig than his cold water trailer; they are what we like to call a match made in heaven!

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