When do you fish a jig?

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When the water's wet.

Buddy wanted some jigs that catch fish so I made him these

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He's not a huge jig fisherman but we both got lucky with them on January 2nd

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Woohoo, open water smallie bite in Winter. Walking your talk after posting your preferred colors for F&F.

Nifty snag guard on your jigs, did you custom design them?

As for when I fish a jig? 100% of my water time for all species of predators year round. Catfish here don't bite in cold water, but can still snag a few haha.
 
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Nifty snag guard on your jigs, did you custom design them?

Cut a small slot in the DoIt mold with a Dremel bit and use leader wire. Cut each piece of leader wire into 1 3/4", Put a small twist in one end for purchase in the lead. Then bend to shape.

They work about 70 percent of the time in the rocky ledgy water I fish. Discovered if I downsize the weight (SLIDER technique) then they snag less.

After being impaled by the wire one to many times, at the very end of the wire by the hook, I put a small bend in and clip it short

Do the same with tube jigs
 

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Whatever works keeps it fresh. On a very rare hectic bite my catch tops out at 20 or so, dunno if its the limited resource or just me.
 

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Thursday was on fire ... stopped taking pix at 1200 and kept fishing until 1700
Everything on something I poured



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What amazed me is how wide these fish were. Second pix shows me holding a fish and you can only see my fingertips and arm past the wrist.

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If you'd care to share, what were they biting?

Swimbaits on a 1/8 oz round ball jig head I poured. They wouldn't touch my silicon/bucktail jigs or a tube.

Were you casting towards the bank?

They were either feeding from the bank or mid-river eddies/. They were definitely chasing baits.
 

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I wouldn't eat anything out of my local waters - to polluted and full of nitrates
 
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