Tubes vs. Tied Jigs?

[crappie josh]

my friends call me the king of break off :rolleyes: :D so if im just fishing virticalor in a boat ill use my hand tied jigs but if im moving around or bank fishing ill use tubes

[Yodibuzz]

hey jjj
we would sure like to see a pic of a jig that has caught 300 crappie.
we could all copy it if you did not mind.
thanks

[beenfishin?]

Tubes??? Ain't that sumthin they used in car tires a long time back??

[lunker]

I caught at least 300 off one of Skip's jigs last year. I used the same one for about 3 weekends in a row during the spawn. I caught so many on that one jig it was crazy. I finally broke it off on a fish I was trying to lift into the boat. I retied every so often but got lazy with it I guess and got a weak spot in my line and broke it off. It was his texas craw color.

by the way, the paint was almost gone off the head and the tail was missing about half the hackle I started with.

[PawPaw Gene]

Here's a jig that caught a bunch of fish. On this trip I brought home 98 bluegills, 26 Crappie, 3 bass and one red fish. Threw back twice that many. Keep only the males. This jig had been used on a previous trip to also land a big bunch. I retied after a couple dozen fish.




Here are the fish caught on it, enjoy







"gene"

[deathb4disco]

Here are the fish caught on it, enjoy

That is one nice mixed bag of fish! Congrats!

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

Now that's what I like to see. Catchin em is the fun part but I sure would'nt want to be the one cleaning all them. I bet that was some tasty fish frys.

[rocket rich]

how about Paddle Bugs and Puddle Jumpers .. You are missing something if you don't try these. ofcourse use nibbles and Paste.. but that's a givin

[lynn sanders]

Well I only use hand tied hair jigs that i make for my self and customers. It's not that big of a lost and they last longer than plastic. Hair or maribor has a great deal more life like action while in the water than plastics do and there for you will catch more on hair type jigs than plastics during those hard bite times.

[skiptomylu]

Have not see anyone mention that when the water temp is below 50 or so the soft plastics don't do as well as they do when the temp is above 50. Still above or below I use my hand tied jigs like 98% of the time even though I have probably as may pounds of soft plastic as anyone. Lots of mine are bass worms and such, but plenty of crappie soft plastics as well.

Just wish I would learn that no matter how much of the soft plastic I buy I will not use it hardly at all.

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