Favorite Jig head for soft plastics?

Sickle hooks work great for me. I can't imagine what a crappie jig looks like on a 3/0 hook with a 3/8 head. Thats what I use for redfish.

Buy mine on line and powder coat them. Black, Pearl white, red, chanteuse and PANK. PANK is my favourite with a bluegrass tube. I like a 2 or 4 red sickle hook. They do have a small barb but have good hook set and are very sharp. I open the hook just a little and eem to get a better set to the roof of the mouth.

Oh yea. Rarely do I put a hook in the water without a nibblet; even with shiners.

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Originally Posted by Southern Chuter

Oh yea. Rarely do I put a hook in the water without a nibblet; even with shiners.

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That's interesting, I'll have to try that. Haven't heard of that before.

to each there own i guess. i like jig rig prefer unpainted jig heads for the most part. the lighter the better under most condtions for me. also have never used a crappie nibblet but sure that work just dont think i need too. that being said what i use in early spring in cold , dirty water is night crawlers on jig . i just break then up in about half inch pieces , not enough to take away from jig but enough to give a little flavor under tough conditions.

that being said color jig, whether pink, yellow , unpainted shape and weight of jig head etc kinda changes from place to place. what makes sense for me makes much less since per se at Darbonne. Grenada and parts in between. same goes with color of jig , there is no right and wrong and althought i mainly fish with just a couple colors water color and other conditions effect what i fish with. Another example is southern Achafalaya basin. all the normal colors work well there but day in day out you cant beat something that resembles a crawfish. thats the main food

again no right and wrong other people catch lots of fish on colors etc that I look and and say that i say makes no sense.

This is always a fun and enjoyable topic.

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Originally Posted by Pastor

PMantle, I order my jigheads from Bobo Greybeard. He has an ad page under the Sponsor section of the main forum. Very nice guy. Has almost any size and style of jighead a man could ask for. And, he pours them after you place your order. He will make sure you get what you want too. I have ordered a few hundred jigs from him just recently. They come unpainted, but I have found that a little fingernail polish works great. You can get almost any color imaginable and it takes no time at all to paint them.

I wash them first in acetone to remove any oily residue. Then I put 2 coats of a color on the jig and top that off with 2 coats of clear. I think they look great and so do the fish. PM me your mailing address and I'll send you a few. I have 1/16 minnow-head and 1/32 round-head.

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Thanks. I'll look into that before ordering anywhere else.

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Originally Posted by Tiger

Sickle hooks work great for me. I can't imagine what a crappie jig looks like on a 3/0 hook with a 3/8 head. Thats what I use for redfish.

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Wanna catch big fish, use big baits. ; 20Watt has seen what they'll do.

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Originally Posted by waxnslabs

Wanna catch big fish, use big baits. ; 20Watt has seen what they'll do.

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If W tells ya a chicken dips snuff you can check under his wing....

I tried the nibblets. Not only did I not get more bites, I got bothered more than usual by bream too small to take the jigs.