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Most jig fishing techniques I'm familiar with are to do with bass. Could you suggest a good source of information on jig fishing for trout, preferably with emphasis on stillwater, like we tend to tube in? I think I would like to give it a try in local waters.
BTW I am also a big user of "microbarb" hooks.
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[cool][#0000ff]I am sure that if you pull up your favorite search engine, and enter the appropriate topics, you could find more than you would ever want to read. However, since you asked, and since jig fishing is near and dear to my heart, I will provide some of the words and pictures I have put together over the years.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]First, is a PDF file on the generic subject of jig fishing. It is not trout specific, but you can extrapolate the generalized stuff. Also attached are pics of some of the jigs I use that are very much approved by trout...at least in the lakes of the USA. I suspect that the browns and other species in your country will find them equally attractive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are more and more large trout specialists in the USA that use jigs as a primary lure for their quarry. They use everything from 1/100 oz. microjigs to large 1 oz. heads with plastic tubes and grubs over six inches long...obviously not on the same waters for the same species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The great thing about jig fishing for trout is that it really lets you present something in the right size, shape and color...with the right action...anywhere from topwater to the bottom in deeper waters. And, you have your choice of materials for dressing the jigs, to create almost any imitation or attractor pattern you can come up with. I use a lot of synthetics, like mylar, Krystal Flash, Flashabou and some exotic body materials to concoct some outrageous trout patterns.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been using small plastic tube jigs for all species since the mid 70's. It only took me a hundred or more "accidental" catches of trout...on jigs being fished for other species...before I realized that jigs might actually be a good lure for trout too. Since then, I have a whole range of tubes and small "twister tail" grubs that I regularly cast for trout of several species. Sometimes I do better with darker colors, in solid blacks, browns, greens, purples and whites. On other occasions I provoke reaction strikes with bright colors or with to or three color jigs. It takes some experimenting on different waters and under different conditions of water temperature, clarity and light levels.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I love fishing small jigs for big trout, using ultralight spinning rods with line testing no more than about 4#. But, there are an increasing number of fly rod fanciers who are falling from grace and tieing small jigs on the ends of their leaders. They often find that small jigs are not all that difficult to cast...for short distances...and they can really help dredge the depths where large fish are sometimes difficult to work with fly fishing tackle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are a couple of the attached pictures that include "jig flies" and "Fly rod runners". These are small patterns, often tied with conventional fly patterns, but incorporating a painted jighead. The "Roadrunner" jigs also feature a small spinner blade which can really wake up the sleepy fish or call in the active ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As you will raad in the "epistle" on jig fishing, there are a multitude of ways to work jigs for trout. The simplest is to just cast and retrieve...counting down the sink and retrieving at a specified depth...or else letting it sink to the bottom and then lifting and dropping the jig on the retrieve, to simulate a hyperactive aquatic creature. There are many variations of course. If you are away from the bank, in a tube, you can cast in toward shore and then lift and drop the jig down the slope of the bank. Once you find the depth at which the fish are feeding, you can move in closer to shore and make casts parallel to shore and work the jig in "high percentage" water more of the time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I use my sonar to find concentrations of fish holding near the bottom, and then making "vertical presentations"...dropping the jig straight down and jigging it up off the bottom. It is often better to jig slightly above the fish, since they will more often rise up to take something than to watch the bottom and nose down to take a jig on the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That is the simplified version. Hope it provides food for thought...and a new style of fishing.[/#0000ff]
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Well yes , there is the search engine approach. Trouble is, in angling, it depends on how observant you are. Not whose advice you trust in blindly. In other words I am sure there is a lot of stuff there that I would be better not seeing, if I am to pick it up as quickly as poss and with the minimum of "blind alleys".
All of my "rubber lure" fishing to date has been surface fishing ... usually for pike ... and quite productive it has been too.
But I feel I'm only enjoyoing half the fun.
The fishing trip reports are showing me very clearly the perch for instance LOVE JIGS. Something I have not tried for that species.
I recognise that jigs are really suited to the vertical and diagonal down presentation that much float tubing over medium to deep water requires. Esp when something interesting is on the sonar !
Right now I tend to use wet cel 2 + flies for trout / perch deepish tubing.
Or often go spinning with metal/sinking diving cranks ( I really like spoonplugs) that can sink, then track along the bottom, instead of rising up towards the surface, and away from the interesting zone.
The world of leadhead jigs, tubes and deep slow fishing with jigs are something I still have to tease out a bit.
Thx for the extensive reply, and the PDF file. All of it is highly interesting stuff, that I can read and re-read until the essentials filter in.
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[cool][#0000ff]I spent a few minutes checking through several websites related to jig fishing for trout. Here are a couple that I think might offer some useful info.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][url "http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPage?CMID=&objectID=30111&langId=-1&mode=article&pageView=image&catalogId=10001&partNumber=&storeId=10151&deptId=000000000&categoryId=000000000&jumpToPage=1¤tPage=0&subdeptId=000000000"]MINI JIG FISHING FOR TROUT[/url][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The feathery creations work great, but I would also encourage you to add some small 1 1/2" tube jigs to your arsenal.[/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]Good lookin' stuff. Thanks for the site info (I edited your post to make that a live link).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I'm sure you realize that the lures by themselves will not catch the fish. It also takes angler skill, fishing the right place at the right time and making proper presentations. But, having something that acts right and looks right can make a big difference.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suspect that all that stuff would work well on most of our Utah species too.[/#0000ff]
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