Jig Head Eyes

[skiptomylu]

Skip, you have become too analytical.
I say more time fishing, less time thinking about jig eyes. LOL

Well I am kind of lucky like that as I didn't need to really spend any time for this analysis because it is stuff I just picked up along the way doing other things. So it didn't take any extra time at all and for sure didn't take one minute away from fishing.

As for being analytical I think that is just the way my mind works.

Skip

[Daplumber]

I fished for years without even painting the heads. Now I paint the head and paint on eyes. I think I used to catch more fish. But then again I probably fished more back then.

[thudpucker]

Somewhere in the archives of my mind is a whole Program of tests made on fish.
Some reputable outfit did it.
One of the things they tested for was Eyes.
They verified that the larger eyes with the Rings are the best lookers.
The fish like the lures with bigger eyes!
Fish could actually tell by the shape and size of the eye, wheter the bait was the right thing or not.
For instance, slanted mean looking eyes never got a look.
Round larger 'fish eyes' got most of the looks. Red in the eye dont seem to matter.
BLack and white, with more white is what they thought worked best.
Big round eye, large black pupil with lots of white around it.

Thats from my caranial archives.

[Pomoxist]

I think eyes on jigs don't make much difference when crappie fishing in dingy water. In clearer water, I'm sure eyes help. I did a pretty careful test several years back on lakes with about 4-foot or better water clarity. Can't remember the exact figures but I caught a hundred-some crappie and something like 55 percent of them hit the eyed jigs.