Neutral Buoyant JIgs

Couple years ago ordered something called EZ-EYES and never could find a use for them unti-------l now. Pin Jigs gave me the idea. The head of the jig is about the size of an 1/8 oz leadhead. Since most of you already know that fish often suck in a lure by creating a vaccuum by expelling water out their gills. You can readily see that a jig that weighs almost nothing is going to fly in their mouths. Well that the general idea for these a big profile jig that weighs very little. Will have to let everyone know if it works when the water goes soft again up here.

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This is how I start them, base wrap Crazy Glue and then add the head.

The following are some of my early attempts at the idea

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neat idea...looks good too

Nice,very nice!

so this should run just below the surface???

Interesting concept. I can see it fished under a float and a split shot placed six inches above it.

You got it Ship. Will need a split shot to get down but I am thinking about a 18" away so that it drops real slow in the strike zone..

When I am night fishing might try some without weight close to the surface when the crappies are chasing the minnows up. Using my flyrod with these at night might be a secret weapon.

I like that.
How do you get the ball on the pin.
mikeb

Exactly what I was thinking Ship. Great idea.

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When I am night fishing might try some without weight close to the surface when the crappies are chasing the minnows up. Using my flyrod with these at night might be a secret weapon.[/QUOTE]

That sounds like a fun way to use the jig. Nice work on the jig.

thats what i was thinking stump a flyrod jig.....

Question? They look really nice, but I thought the pin/bead concept was to add tungsten beads (tungston jigs are EXPENSIVE and small tungsten beads show up really well on locators because of their density) because they cast at to high of a heat for the do-it-yourself guys. Are these just a different look to a fly?

Interesting, and I suppose the head gives it more silhouette, but at some point, why not just tie the streamer on a plain hook if you're going to use a split shot anyway? You can add bulk at the head without using the pin/bead.

Have you immersed these in water to see how they orient? I would think that placing the source of buoyancy below the hook eye would cause the jig to turn upside down.

I think some of you are confusing flotation with buoyancy. By the way almost all floating jigs go upside down when immersed in water. Neutral buoyancy is when an object will neither float or sink all the way to the bottom. They will settle somewhere in between. These particular jigs sink very slowly and even float a little until materials take on water. When pulled up on a rod in a vertical motion these jigs go to the upright position. During the downward cycle of the jigging motion it flops over on its side. Any of you guys ever watch a dying minnow in your bucket.

The main object of playing with these was to take a useless material ( ordering mistake ) and incorporate into something I can catch fish on. I already have plenty of streamers in my box . Anyone ever ask Bob Clouser why he tied the " Clouser " when there were already hundreds of types of streamers that were proven.

Nowhere in my post did I say that these were the next great thing. I have a tendency to think outside the box. Sometimes my ideas work sometimes they don't. I
even stated I would have to wait until open water ( ice is on up here now ) to really test them. They are too big for what I normally use thru the ice.

I can hardly be described as thin skinned and sometimes posts take on a whole different meaning that the author intended. But some of you might understand my reluctance to post here if I get another " radical " idea.

Interesting. I like.

Hays47,
I see where you are going now... I should of read the title "Neutral Buoyant JIgs". The light took a bit, but it turned on. I think it's a great idea and cost efficient for the Do-It-Yourselfer. Putting a neutral buoyant jig drifting freely in front of a crappie is bound to get bit. And on those days when the fish are in a funk, this could be the answer. Interesting....Way to think out of the box!

this is a fantastic idea you have with the plastic beads we are coming out in the future with rubber beads and they will come in over 80 different colors. There may be 2 to 3 different sizes of the rubber beads. we will also be adding egg clusters , which will look like an Okie drifter if we have any steelhead fishermen out there but they will be robber.