Bucho said:
nice ties and interesting material! What size are they? My experience with hairjigs and perch is that size matterns. Less than finger-long jigs have yet failed to produce a reasonably sized fish at all. You may encounter roach, ide and white bream surprizes though!
Frank
They are tied on a 1g (1/32oz) size 8 Finesse sickle jig head ( probably Matzuo, but the seller buys in bulk and puts his own label on them).
I hear what you are saying about size but I have always tended to fish with smaller sizes than many. However over the years have had some respectable perch up to 4lb on small hooks/lures, even the occasional pike up to 16lb, caught on Mepps Aglia copper spinners size 2.
These days though I tend to only use jigs, which must always be tied by me and rarely use any hook size greater than a 6 or 4. Recently I have been experimenting with smaller hooks. The other week I tied up a gold bead Pheasant tail nymph on a jig hook (weight 0.4g about 1/75ozs) size 10 and over a 3 hour session had over 40+ perch. Admittedly many were very small, although the best went to 1lb 8ozs. I fish very light, using a Savage Gear LRF 6'6" 198cm (6'6") rated to cast 0-5gms (less than1/4oz) so every fish I catch, regardless of size, gives sport. I have to confess though that one of the reasons for using smaller hooks was to try and catch a roach or bream which also frequent the same part of the canal. Alas no roach or bream - yet. I may have to go smaller!!
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Thanks to everybody for your kind comments.
David
PS. I have just ordered some more UV Straggle Fritz in other colours!
