Little jigs pic

These I tied about 3-4 years ago and they just sit in one of my boxes. Guess this next spring I will need to try them out. Some were intended for blue gills and some were just little crappie jigs for when they get picky.

Skip
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lookin nice skip!i love them smaller sizes.i love that one with green spotted feathers.would like to get some of those kina feathers sometime

Thanks and I forgot to say I have caught crappie on the ones with the Peacock Swords. I used it as a drop off of a larger jig (little jig at the top).

Skip

Nice, I bet the smaller jigs like that would be good used over a larger one in a two jig rig.

Good looking small jigs Skip.

Skip Those will work fine on Bream. Nothing better than getting in to a big bed of bream. I tie one very much like the 4th jig in the second row. I tie it with a forest or hunter green head It was one I first saw for Ice fishing in the midwest. It works great. Last year I started to tie it on a Hot pink head and man it was hot in the fall and early winter on crappies. I will agree that peacock sword is a material that is often over looked by us tiers. Think that that pattern is as close as you are going to find to a small bream or bluegill fry. And the Crappies just love them.

Redman

nice-looking jigs skip they should catch quite a few bluegills on them skip I have never thought about tying some up like that.

Thanks guys, just showing some different type jigs we all can tie. Just need the materials. A good many of the ones with peacock I used Danville Fl Nylon Wool. It's the same stuff used on the crappie candy fly.

Skip

Nice-lookin jigs as always, Skip. I have a peacock sword or two that I rarely use laying around somewhere... That's a dang good idea for tailing material!

Look good. I'll dang sho be glad when I get some confidence is using just jigs. Scared of it right now and tip all my jigs with a minner. Do ya'll bounce them any if jigging stumps? I mainly spider rig and haven't done very much at of of stump jigging.

If I am not trolling I an usually either fishing tight line or under a bobber. Most of the time when tight lining like fishing standing timber or stumps I would drop it down to where I want to start watching for my line to stop before it hits bottom and that may be all you see for a bite. Then when I have it where I want to hold, I will hold it still to start because most of the time you really don't want it jumping up and down. If nothing happens I will just take my rod and move the tip maybe 3'-4' one way and let it swing back under the rod tip and then maybe back the other way. If your going to "jig it" you would want to jig down or drop it down fast just a tiny bit. Always remember sometimes you will just see your line move to the side or barely feel a little tick or even a loss of weight feel is a bite because if they take it and move up a little (happens a lot) you will lose the feel of your jig weight is all.

Try reading the articles on this site to see what other say and I know there are some good ones. Some like what they call vertical jigging and I know there is a lot on the main board about that. Just do a search and read some. That will help see what others do and say.

Also keep in mind if you see them on your sonar you don't want to fish below them as they will not feed down, but at their level and above is what you want to do.

Skip

Thanks, yeh, I've read til I can't read anymore and I've done the swim it by stumps, drop it down abit at a time and hold it, then drop it a few more inches. I've done about everythng I've read and just haven't had alot of luck with it so far. I guess I need to just spend some more time doing it instead of easeing around spider rigging

Now lots of guys say jigs s all they do, but when summer hits I go ot using both minnows and jigs. I tie like a 1/8 oz jig on the bottom and a small hook up 15" or a little more for the minnow. I usually catch my bigger fish on the jig. Spring and fall jigs should rule.

Skip

Dondon, patience is the key. As you jig more and more the fish will tell you what they want. I use a casting technique that I saw described as the "pitch and glide". A short (or long ) cast , close the bail and turn the reel enough to get a smooth arc(or bow) in the line and never take your eyes off of it. I've had days where I saw 60% of the bites, line went slack when I didn't tell it to. Vert jigging is even more subtle than that. 100% attention, especially around stumps and such, is needed. Keep after it and it'll come.

Thanks guys, just need to spend some TOW and do it I recon. Gotten LAZY spider rigging and pulling cranks. I didn't start Crappie fishing til 2 years ago so it's a work in progress

Don, I've never spider rigged with minnows. It's always just jigs for me. Sometimes I add a crappie nibble to the hook and sometimes not. I'm trying to learn longlining with jigs. Steve and I will be doing some of that at camp. Once you learn jig fishing, you'll love it.