Quote Originally Posted by Happyfisherman View Post
They do swim at an angle up and down, but not when swimming straight. I don't raise my rod tip up or down when retrieving, just a slow steady retrieve. If you don't adjust the knot to a little back of the center of the eye, it will loook unnatural on the retrieve. I've had a rosy red I kept in my aquarium I've been watching for months, and I can see why the straight tails work so well

Minnows seem to dart around and swim at various angles, but mostly horizontal

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Okay, but I would think you'd want to have the knot well to the front of the jig eye on a steady slow retrieve. If it's towards the back half of the jig eye isn't it going to turn the jighead to a downward position on retrieve ?? That is IF it even stays in that position on the jig eye after a hard cast.

I'm just basing my comments on my experiences (of the past) when I was casting a jig, holding the rod tip at the 11 o:clock position, allowing the line to keep a slight bow in it by my slow retrieve speed while watching the line for any movement not created by me. My knot was always TDC on the jig eye (unless it got pulled to the front of the jig eye from landing the fish, and was never corrected). I never intentionally pulled the knot towards the back half of the jig eye. Even if it did end up in that position, it would most likely have ended up back at TDC on the next cast.