Thread: Ice jigs for bluegills

I get them on there from RonDon LA Baits. I was just curious about the pin mins that he makes. I already got 100's of them, but you know how it is when you see something you don't have..

Go to the Ice Fishing forum and look around there. Also you might try a Google or Yahoo search on Panfish ice jigs and scroll through the images. There are dozens of pages of images, and you might also stumble across the Bikini Ice Fishing Team to provide a little voyeuristic side interest.Tear drops, pinmins, microspoons, mooskas, diamonds, balances, wolframs, fat boys, shad darts, dirty girty, gill getters, as many different names and styles as it seems possible to think up. There is even one called a Rat Finkee. Everybody has a few favorites and most tip them with plastics, waxies, spikes (maggots) or the little GULPS. They work year around, too. Most were originally brass or lead, but there is more and more tungsten coming into use all the time. Tungsten provides a nice bit of extra weight for its size and is more "eco-friendly", if that trips your trigger, but also costs quite a bit more. For this kind of lure I like the way it fishes, as we say it fishes heavy and gets back down quick, since it is significantly heavier than lead in the same sizes.In the summer I carry a few mooskas, diamonds, gill getters and shad darts in sizes 8-12 for when we stumble on a good sunnie bite and the crappies are not cooperating. Normally then I fish them under a tiny slip bobber, but not always. Where I can I prefer tight lining them like through the ice. Usually I also carry some 1" GULP minnows and some GULP Waxies to go along with them. That has produced a few nice crappies, too, when nothing else worked.

I use these alot, year round. Have caught alot of gills on them and even a few nice crappie. I like jamming jigs, they have a great selection of these jigs as well as alot of other small jigs in different styles like the gillpill and the panfish pounders. Their colors and paint patterns are topnotch and last forever, I have yet to have one peel or chip from use. And if you are fishing in murky water, or through the ice in low light conditions the glow are amazing. Check them out at jamminjigs.com

How about a how to post on making them?

We use the teardrop jigs all the time. They are excellent when fishing beds because of the rate of fall.





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Since I replied to this thread a few days ago, I tried a modified tube jig and have been catching bluegill on it by vertical jigging.

I cut the skirt off of a small white "glow in the dark" tube jig and put the jig body on a 1/32 jig head (threaded the tube over the jighead so just the eye is showing). Hooked a wax worm dead center on the hook and it gives it a good slow fall with some fluttering action. The bluegill have been able to get the whole thing in their mouth with no problem. Not an ice jig but similarly sized in some ways.

BTB, sounds intresting, do you have a pic?

I use teardrops and pinmin spoons year round tipped with wax worms or red wigglers. Dynamite setup. I have posted several thread on how to solder teardrops, and pinpins. Just type those key words in the search box. If I can help you further just pm me.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...r-crappie.html