Big jig, slow sink

Some years back I decided that a large slow sinking jig was needed in certain situations. Combining that with a desire to tie something different than the standard crappie jig I came up with these conglomerations.

I never got around to trying these jigs until this year when I revisited the idea and tied some new versions. The results have been impressive so far when fishing brush piles in 6 to 8 ft of water. Some good crappie in the 12 to 14-in range have been caught along with nice small mouth the other day.

So far a # 2 streamer hook is the go-to but occasionally some # fours are used. Adding two metal beads brings the weight to.05 oz which is equivalent to 1/20th.

Balancing this weight with some floating material for the body and tail accomplishes a very nice, slow tantalizing sink.

The length of the streamers are between 2.75 and 4 in. Optimum is probably around 3 in.

Fishing these ties is fun. Using livescope they show up well and a 30-ft casting range is possible using 12 lb braid.

Here's a few that I tied lately:





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