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I was looking on pouring or buying jigheads for throwing a 3" Grub... I have a mold that will pour them without a collar but I believe I might want the collar. Also, I'm going to use these to fish for walleye and we get hung up alot fishing them so would I be better off with a light wire hook? Would you all recommend a sickle hook or a regular hook or light wire... Also, what size hook would be good for the 3" grub? I'm going to be looking at 1/8 oz and 1/4 oz I believe...
Thanks,
-VCM
Personally I would go with a barbed collar jig head with a standard wire hook. 1/8 oz. or larger on at least #2.
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Forget the sickle, go black nickle. You will be glad you did,,we have tried all the rest
When I fish a 3" grub I use a #1 hook on the 1/8th oz and a 1/0 hook on the 1/4 oz. I use regular Mustad jig hooks. I use sickles on the panfish jigs
I like a 1/0 hook jig for 3" grubs. I have some in 1/16th oz from Cabelas I think that do have the barbs. I use those quite a bit, but I have them up to 1/2 oz too. If I am using a jig without a barb, a lil drop of super glue on the top 1/4" of the hook before you slide the grub on solves the problem. I use a 3" grub alot for Walleye here on the 'ol Miss.
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You might like something like my weedless Y-gaurd jigs.
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BTW, those Cabela's 1/16th's wkith a 1/0 hook will bend out with some moderate snag pressure, but hold up well against fighting Walleye. I've taken 10lbers here on them. I use the see through candy green chartreuse colored ones, or the blacke with yellow & black eyes.
Charle brewer has a leadhead called a nutter head.looks like the slider head but is round.We also make a head close to it use a # 1 or 1/0 lite wire eagle claw hook works great.We use them for our wallaye on Greers Ferry lake.works great.Make them in 1/16 oz,1/8 oz and 3/16 oz.
3" Grubs, I like 1/8 with a 1 or 1/0, or 1/4 with a 1/0. I use round heads w/barb, walleye jig, Erie head and Ultra Minnow heads. Those ultra minnow heads really give those grubs a walking action and work great for Gulp minnows. I only use round bend hooks when pitching or even vertical fishing eyes. I've just lost to many eyes fishing sickles, but they're great for crappie.
I have a walleye jig mold with a recessed eye that pours 7 sizes from 1/16 to 5/8 covering the sizes you need. You can order them from Barlow's or Zeiner's which is a few bucks cheaper. I use both sickles and aberdeens with this mold. I use a 1/0 mustad 32746 or an Owner 3318 in 1/0 with the 1/8 oz. and 2/0's for the 1/4oz. The Owners have a longer shank then regular aberdeens which enables me to use a 4 or 5 inch grub if I want to give the fish something bigger to look at. The hooks I use cost a little more but are so sharp that they stick fish better,especially if you use light line.
I guide here in Illinois and I Have a guy make me 1/4 and 3/8 oz. jigheads with 1/0 gold hooks. I use fireline crystal in 10lb. test and a 7ft. med. or med/heav. rod so when you get hung up you can snap your rod real hard and straighten out your hook.
Thanks for the replies guys I think I'm leaning towards the 1/0 hooks in both 1/8 oz and 1/4 oz most of what i'm fishing is 2ft to at most 10ft deep. I tried fireline at one time and it ended up driving me nuts... I use the line for alot of my casting distance and found that 8lb worked pretty decent at using jigs and throwing f11 rapalas. What are your guys thoughts on the fireline?
Thanks,
Michael
We have been using the sickles a friend wanted some 1/8 oz round heads with a gold # 2 eagle claw hook works great.We also added a wire keeper to help keep the plastic in place and be able to change colors the little keeper works great have added them to our pony heads works great on them to.We have used fireline for some time a friend suggest the 4 lb dia/10 lb test Prower Pro workes great on spinning equipment.This time of year the wallaye are up in the current on our lakes and rivers this combo has really has worked great you can really feel the tick in the line even with a little bow from all the wind we have had lately!!!!