Ice Jigs???

[Jigmaker0421]

Hi jigcraft members, i was gonna try my hand at making some different ice jig styles to use for open water jigging for panfish and i was just wondering if anyone would mind posting some pics of different ice jigs so i could get a good idea

 

[AtticaFish]

What style ice jigs are you talking about..... the micro spoons or tiny jigs?

I do use a lot of small jigs both through the ice and open water. Small round shot crimped on mustad 3366 hooks are one of my favorites to use now. 1/64 and smaller heads with traditional jig work excellent too.

Through the ice, i keep the ties to a bare minimum and almost always tip with waxies or spikes.

Open water - last year i had excellent success with these style of tied jigs. Occasionally i needed to tip with a crawler chunk or waxworm - but most of the time the gills would readily hit them without a bait tip. Dragging them over rip-rap and down into deeper, silted substrates. When they hit the mud bottom, they got eaten. Several days i was able to catch limits of catfish along with some stringers of nice bluegill.

I posted this picture awhile back....

 

[Jigmaker0421]

Nice ties Attica i'll have to try those but the ones i was talking about was the solder jigs like tear drops and rockers and various styles of those

 

[papaperch]

Is this what you are asking about ?

 

[StumpHunter]

I have a few of those yankee ice jigs I hope to fool some of these southern bream to bite. Great looking jigs and if you are going to make some these will be good ones to copy. Papaperch does very nice work making them.

 

[Fatman]

Nice Perch!!!!!!!

 

[Jigmaker0421]

Thanks PP those are exactly what im talkin about what style blades are those?

 

[plateboater]

Nice looking ice jigs perch. I would be interested in more info on how to build. Sweet