Jig size?

[Barnacle Bill]

Wow! I'm convinced!

[CrappiePappy]

If you take a look at the numbers and average size of Crappie that are brought to the weigh-in's of our Fall Brawl & Spring Fling tournaments ... then look at the size/weight of the jigs that were used to catch these fish ... then consider that most of them were caught from "under" or "in and around" docks, pine trees, brush piles, and other forms of "hang-up city" type structures -- you'd be surprised. Jigs in size/weight of 1/64 - 1/24 - 1/32 - 1/16oz ......... on lines as small as 4lb test, have been responsible for bringing in limits of 1lb - 1.5lb average Crappie, & some 2lb and larger Crappie.

I've caught several 4lb Smallmouth and one 6lb Largemouth ... all on the 1/16oz Oldham's Weedless Crappie Jighead. I've caught Hybrid Stripers, Channel Catfish, and other species on this same jighead. My late fishing partner once caught a 25lb Drum on one of these jigs. Neither myself, nor any of my fishing partners, have had a fish straighten out one of these hooks while fighting a fish. And 4lb line was used in most instances.

A jig, by its nature, rides in the water on the retrieve - with it's hook pointing upwards ... and is more likely to stick a fish in the roof of the mouth - whereas a baited hook (plain hook/live bait) is taken into the fish's mouth in random positions ... resulting in hookups "all over" the inside of a fish's mouth, or even in the thin membrane of the lips. So - technically speaking, on average you have a better chance of landing a jig hooked fish, than one that is hooked with a plain hook. .................cp