1/80 or 1/100 smallest hook size

[Doc Crappie]

what is the smallest hook size that can be used when pouring these super light jigs. Is a size 12 or 14 too small to be asking for

[Jiggin_Joe]

I use a 12 on a 1/100 work great up here in mid winter ice fishing when bite is tough

[fish_4_all]

I will never understand using that small of a jig but that is just me. Take any hook and wrap it with some really fine copper wire and you have the same weight.

Smallest I have seen is a #12 on any size jig.

Want a lighter jig? Still only down to size 12 though.

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How do you even weigh them?

[Jiggin_Joe]

I will never understand using that small of a jig but that is just me. Take any hook and wrap it with some really fine copper wire and you have the same weight.

Smallest I have seen is a #12 on any size jig.

Want a lighter jig? Still only down to size 12 though.

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How do you even weigh them?

Its not about wieght its about profile and finise.not sure i would want to use just a hook with wire wrapped around it ice fishing. the fish love those mini hair jigs.
I know alot of guys here have never ice fished its a totally different world. we use electronics and you can see a fish follow a 64 oz jig up and then just swim away when this happens you must downsize or catch nothing. I rarely have to go below a 80th but on those real tough days they wont hit anything but a 100.

in the summer i never have used anything higher then 1/16 and I know alot of guys up here dont either.

joe

[skiptomylu]

I have number #8 & #6 regular bend in 1/80 oz and in my 1/64 I have regular bend #8 & #6 also in Sickle hooks I have #8, #6 & #4 hooks.

In the summer I mostly use 1/8 & 1/4 oz jigs and at night in the summer the same.

Skip

[fish_4_all]

Well it wouldn't be on a jig hook but I understand that the intricacies of finesse fishing can be, well intricate.

I have fished with smaller flies so I know when size matters. It is amazing to see a 17 inch trout take a size 24 Adams when they won't hit a night crawler. It is even more amazing to see a 20 pound salmon hit a size 20 fly when one might question their ability to even see it.

I just figure it would be easier to make a fly with some weight on the shank to make them even smaller profiled than a tiny jig head. Add a bead and you have the same look too. Just learning here and adding my thoughts though. I realize that there is a reason they make jig head so small, they work. I want to get some just so I have that extra trick up my sleeve when nothing else seems to work even though the lakes rarely freeze here at all let alone thick enough to fish on.

Downsizing for steelhead is a different world here. When we downsize it is from a 1/4 to 1/16. If I could find a steelhead worthy hook in a smaller jig head I would have them for those days when they won't hit anything larger.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

I think a #12 would be the smallest I'd use and that would be for trout and gills,not crappie.Smallest for crappie would be a #8.

[deathb4disco]

Add a bead and you have the same look too.

Yeah, I'd go the bead route, but an even easier (and cheaper) method is just to squeeze a tiny split shot on the line right in front of the hook eye.

[Doc Crappie]

I think a #12 would be the smallest I'd use and that would be for trout and gills,not crappie.Smallest for crappie would be a #8.

That is exactly what i want it for GILLS think that would work great

[LedHed]

VMC has a size #14 in their catalog. Shorty’s might have the 6147 #12 (got 2000 of these) on clearance (real cheap) - they sold out on the #10 and #8 – missed the boat on that one.

There are some guys out there that tie up some awesome UL jigs in the 1/80th – 1/100th size. One is Crappie Keith (think he posts on CDC but not in the jig making section) with T.H.E. jig – excellent craftsmanship. Another is Zig with the Zig Jigs. These guys are top notch tyers – real artists. If I didn’t tie my own I would diffidently have their jigs in my arsenal. Not too proud to say that some of their patterns have been copied…….