Thread: I GOT TWO QUESTIONS

I’ve used gold with good success and our local waters look like coffee from all the tannic stuff in the water. Add a good storm or an algae bloom and it sometimes gets downright soupy. They definitely work and the sunshine helps too. Never rigged em weedless like that. I’ve used trimmed brush guard jigs.

My favorite gold color ties are made with a chenille called Texas Toast from Crazy Angler Tackle. I have several different weedless rigs I use for soft plastics with my favorite being the Charlie Brewer slider head, the only heads I buy. I pour darter and stand up heads with #1 hooks and you can rig these with crappie plastics 2" and bigger. I mainly use these for bass but crappie eat these too. I don't fish from a boat but fish brush piles all the time. All these work vertical jigging.

Gold color in off-colored water has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I've also had success using solid black in muddy water.

I never tried skin hooking my crappie jigs because the rods I use have a soft tip and I'm not sure how well it would drive te hook point through the plastic.

Jim

I’ve done the bass type weedless thing but I find it’s really hard to keep from getting line twist when vertical jigging that way.
So I just use regular jigs
As long as the brush is not deeper than my jig pole will reach ( to run the rod tip down when hung up )
I pull the jig to the tip of my pole and let it down.
About the only time I lose a jig is when a big bass for cat chomps down and heads for deeper water through the brush.


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