Big jig, slow sink

Some years back I decided that a large slow sinking jig was needed in certain situations. Combining that with a desire to tie something different than the standard crappie jig I came up with these conglomerations.

I never got around to trying these jigs until this year when I revisited the idea and tied some new versions. The results have been impressive so far when fishing brush piles in 6 to 8 ft of water. Some good crappie in the 12 to 14-in range have been caught along with nice small mouth the other day.

So far a # 2 streamer hook is the go-to but occasionally some # fours are used. Adding two metal beads brings the weight to.05 oz which is equivalent to 1/20th.

Balancing this weight with some floating material for the body and tail accomplishes a very nice, slow tantalizing sink.

The length of the streamers are between 2.75 and 4 in. Optimum is probably around 3 in.

Fishing these ties is fun. Using livescope they show up well and a 30-ft casting range is possible using 12 lb braid.

Here's a few that I tied lately:



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That's more than a few and they are putting slabs in the boat. Looks like you are using a lot of palmer chenille, I really like it too. I've wrapped three different colors at once for a body, turned out nice. They won't have any problem seeing those.

Thanks, Jim,

That first box and the three jigs in one picture are old ones. I got things out of order a little bit with that post.

Some of the old ones used dumbbell eyes. I've about decided I don't care too much for them for some reason.

Yeah, that Palmer chenille is some nice stuff. I've added several colors on some jigs also. Pretty good look.

I've also used some floating jig heads. Adding some beads for weight allows for creating negative buoyancy and an adjustable sink rate. Haven't tried them on the water yet.

Slow sinking jigs are killers, and doing it this way allows for a bigger jig without using small heads and tiny hooks.







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For years and years I fished a white chicken feather streamer that a local fellow tied for me. He passed and I no longer fish it but it was a killer for crappie.

Darcie,

How were the chicken streamers made?

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Just a plain straight#2 hook and a couple fine feathers with red wrap. They did not last long, but where killer.

I've never tied with chicken feathers before but have tied thousands of jigs using duck feathers. Maybe they taste like chicken because they work very well. Favorite color of thread for them is red or black. Actually the red is Fl.Orange but looks like red to me but glows red under UV light.

Very nice. Good job.