10-07-2003, 10:22 PM
[cool]Hey, those look familiar.
If anyone wants any info on how to make them or fish them, shoot me a PM. I started making special jigs quite a few years ago, with short tails to accomodate adding a piece of "sweetener"...worm, shrimp, fish flesh or even a small plastic trailer. The "Roadrunner" style, with the little spinner blade, are especially effective on a wide range of species.
If you look carefully at the materials in the body and tails, you may recognize some stuff from the craft shop. I use several different colors of "craft cord" for the bodies, and a lot of flashabou and Krystal Flash for the tails.
You can fish these things by casting and retrieving, bottom bounce trolling or even vertical jigging out of a boat or float tube. That's How I fish them mostly and there are a lot of trips where TubeBabe and I are the only ones scoring. On the little jigs of only 1/16 or 1/8 oz. we have caught largies up to about 8 pounds and lots of channel cats to 15, I have also landed several flathead cats up to 30# on small baitbugs and 6# line.
JapanRon has been conducting some field testing on the local saltwater and brackish water denizens over there with good results. At least he said he caught a fish once. And, since he's a fisherman, I believe him.
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If anyone wants any info on how to make them or fish them, shoot me a PM. I started making special jigs quite a few years ago, with short tails to accomodate adding a piece of "sweetener"...worm, shrimp, fish flesh or even a small plastic trailer. The "Roadrunner" style, with the little spinner blade, are especially effective on a wide range of species.
If you look carefully at the materials in the body and tails, you may recognize some stuff from the craft shop. I use several different colors of "craft cord" for the bodies, and a lot of flashabou and Krystal Flash for the tails.
You can fish these things by casting and retrieving, bottom bounce trolling or even vertical jigging out of a boat or float tube. That's How I fish them mostly and there are a lot of trips where TubeBabe and I are the only ones scoring. On the little jigs of only 1/16 or 1/8 oz. we have caught largies up to about 8 pounds and lots of channel cats to 15, I have also landed several flathead cats up to 30# on small baitbugs and 6# line.
JapanRon has been conducting some field testing on the local saltwater and brackish water denizens over there with good results. At least he said he caught a fish once. And, since he's a fisherman, I believe him.
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