i HAVE, and will probably, catch more fish on plastics than I have ever even come close to on tied jigs. Don't ask me why, bc I've fished with tied jigs that've come from the greatest of tying hands. With that said, when the fish are ON, it doesn't matter the material, AND a tied jig will outlast a plastic by a country mile. I'm a vertical, structure based river fisherman, not a troller. Jigs don't last unsnagged and broken off here if you want to catch fish.