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Originally Posted by Techno2000
Ok....I'll give you my take. For years I used 1/64 ounce shad dart jig heads.....the majority being from Trout Magnet. Over the years I kept looking for a better jig head.....better to me means much sharper. I have lost count of the number of 1/64 ounce shad dart jig heads I have tried from a lot of sources. If I needed more weight I would many times attach a single size B split shot about 18 inches above the jig head. I also was fishing 1/32 and some larger jig heads going as high as 3/32 with the Trout Magnet. When I started buying 1/2 gram JDM jig heads I took a long look at all my 1/64 ounce jig heads. I found out that all of them weighed closer to the 1/40 mark than 1/64. That is the number I remember anyway when I did it but the point is a 1/64 ounce jig head weighs quite a bit more than stated weight. Doing research found out this is common in the industry for micro jig heads. But meanwhile I had ordered 100 1/2 gram JDM jig heads and I noticed how small they were compared to the 1/64 heads I had been using. Plus casting distance with a 1/2 gram jig head ain't much. So now my preferred weight jig head....with no wind...is 1 gram...which translates to 1/30 ounce....which is not that far from what I had been fishing with for years. Yesterday I started out with a 1 gram jig head....but the wind was a bit stiff and I went up to 1.5 gram. There is no doubt in my mind that fish love that slow fall rate a tiny jig gives. But you have to be able to get some casting distance. It has just been an education for me and jig head weights. Now my sweet spot jig for lake fishing is the 1 gram.....if the water is deep.....meaning over 10 feet...I'll move up to the 1.5 gram and to the 2 gram to get it down to say 20 feet. Of course one can do that with US market jig heads also. Tomorrow is supposed to be calm and flat conditions....if so my son and I will start out with a 1 gram jig head in 6 feet of water. Of course if the wind gets up I will move up in weight.
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