To eye or not eye.......

[slipbobber]

Here's something that I do to paint eyes, don't own a camera so will try to describe this as best as I can. Take two 1" by 2" boards 2 ft long, cut and place a thin piece of soft foam between the boards (1/8" thick will do). Then I drill three holes through the boards one on each end and one in the middle install 1/4" diameter bolts long enough to go through all the above plus 1/2" more with wing nuts. To use slide the jigs in under the foam along one board with the head exposed. I slide these in perpendicular to the to the boards and can crowd them up so use both sides, they will hangup very little. My boards will probably hold 50 to 75 jigs at a time depending on the size. Now I lay this on someting that will support it or place in a vise. Take your favorite nail, drill bit or whatever and paint all the jigs on one side, flip over and paint the other side let dry a few minutes remove and finish up however. After writing all this I may reconsider and go camera shopping!

[AUTiger]

I don't see where it matters much although I quit painting eyes on my jigs several years ago so maybe I'm missing out a lot of strikes???

As for the "baitfish have eyes" comments, I can't argue with that fact but please tell me how many baitfish you've seen that are pink or purple, or chart????

[PBUG2009]

lol thats so true.ive always wondered what the fish was thinking when they see a lure with the heads colored

[Redman]

Well just my FWIW When I lived up north and tied walleye jigs I never painted heads let alone eyes. Now that I fish Crappies in the south I paint the heads and the eyes.

I think that what ever you can do to make the jigs more attractive to the fish is a good thing. Now if I was still up north knowing what I do now I would paint the heads and the eyes and have more success on walleyes than I use to.

Just MHO