Never had a jig fall apart before.

I went chasing slabs this morning under the two mile bridge at lake Tawakoni. I had a 3/16 hand tie on my line and never a got a nibble from a crappie. While wondering what was going to be my next move a huge school of magnum size sandbass passed right our spot chasing shad on top. It was complete chaos while everyone was hooking up with them. I caught around 60 of them in a hour and half and simply tore my jig to pieces. The hackle tail went after around 15 fish and chenille was totally unraveled after 50 fish. By the time the left the area my jig had around 3 wraps of chenille left on the jig head. I guess I had better adding some super glue to my work. No crappie fillets today but I sure had a great time with those sandies. I wish my handtie could say the same :Rofl

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Originally Posted by Grainraiser

I went chasing slabs this morning under the two mile bridge at lake Tawakoni. I had a 3/16 hand tie on my line and never a got a nibble from a crappie. While wondering what was going to be my next move a huge school of magnum size sandbass passed right our spot chasing shad on top. It was complete chaos while everyone was hooking up with them. I caught around 60 of them in a hour and half and simply tore my jig to pieces. The hackle tail went after around 15 fish and chenille was totally unraveled after 50 fish. By the time the left the area my jig had around 3 wraps of chenille left on the jig head. I guess I had better adding some super glue to my work. No crappie fillets today but I sure had a great time with those sandies. I wish my handtie could say the same :Rofl

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Yeah, whenever I buy feather jigs I always put drop of superglue on the thread wrap.

I'm going to have to say .... if your hand tied jigs lasted that long and thru that many White Bass munching on them, then you sir are doing a bang-up job of tying jigs !! :ThumbsUp
My only way of comparison is to relate that I've had commercially made jigs fall apart, come apart, or get torn apart much faster & with way less numbers of fish caught by them ... and many of those fish were Crappie doing the damage. :yikes

Thats when you switch to a marabou thats costs about half as much!

You did good if it lasted that long. Sand bass are very tough on tackle.

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They call it terminal tackle for a reason. I think it did just fine. I thin some sally Hanson 50/50 with acetone and it soaks in deep then sets up real good and I won’t say never, but it’s rare I have issues with them. Sounds like you had a good time regardless.

WOW 60 magnum jig rippers on one handtie ….that's a record of some sort bro …..
them fish will ruin a rooster tail paint job in about 10 minutes I swear
and take the paint off a slab in about 20 minutes .
I hate them but I love them . they pull like heck
but they are hard on the hands and baits something awful
sounds like fun ….I been at that lake and done the same thing a few years ago
when they march thru under that bridge they like to light it up no doubt :highfive