What happened?

Yesterday I was fishing some laydowns on 12 mile bayou for crappie with a jig tipped with a minnow, I dropped the jig just outside the visible limbs and let it sit there for a minute or so, when I went to ease up on it, it was hung on a limb, or so I thought, I pulled up pretty hard and up comes a largemouth bass that was at least 7 or 8 pounds, it was huge, and when I realized that I needed the net, I went to grab it and the bass went back down in the water and all of a sudden the line popped and went loose, I was using 8 pound test high vis line, so I thought the line broke, I pulled the end of the line to me and looked at it, and the loop knot that I had tied the jig on with, was still intact, it wasn't broken anywhere. So the only thing I can figure is maybe the eye of the jig broke. Has anybody ever had this happen? I was so sick, it would have been the biggest bass I've ever caught

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I have had jig hooks break. I can't recall one breaking at the eye. The eye has a lot of built in stresses from being shaped.

More than likely the jig eye wasn’t closed good?? :dono I’ve had line although not as thick as 8 lb slip through there and come off.

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

More than likely the jig eye wasn’t closed good?? :dono I’ve had line although not as thick as 8 lb slip through there and come off.

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That's what I was thinking happened, I figured maybe the eye wasn't closed as tight as it should have been, whatever it was, it made me sick lol

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It is enough to make a mans heart sink to feel a line go slack

I have had that happen several times especially with braid. When using a loop knot I try to remember to put a little crip on the eye with pliers. I would be sick losing one like tha.

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More than likely the jig eye wasn’t closed good?? :dono I’ve had line although not as thick as 8 lb slip through there and come off.

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My experience and guess exactly

Yes it is. I'm not a bass fisherman, but I definitely would have put this one on the wall, it makes me nauseous when I think about it lol

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

It is enough to make a mans heart sink to feel a line go slack

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Originally Posted by Cray

I have had that happen several times especially with braid. When using a loop knot I try to remember to put a little crip on the eye with pliers. I would be sick losing one like tha.

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Thanks, I've never had it happen before, but from now on I'll check the eyes before I tie it on

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Wouldn’t have fazed me much, kinda got used to my luck running that way.......but still, man!

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Originally Posted by Crappieorbust

Wouldn’t have fazed me much, kinda got used to my luck running that way.......but still, man!

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If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all

Had this to happen to me twice on my last trip. I had just ordered a pack of 25 weedless jigs and didn't check the eyes. Crimped all of the remaining eyes after the second lost fish and a few choice words.

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This happened to me and is why I now order jigs from someone like Pepop (handtiedcrappiejigs.com) who is so professional and precise that it never happened again. I occasionally slip up and use a mass produced jig and am reminded when I lose the jig and see my loop knot intact. Sorry you lost that bad boy.


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I ordered some hooks one time and quiet a few needed crimped to close the eyes..

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all

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+ gloom, despair, and agony on me !:dono

I wont go into the particulars of who has jigheads that do that ,but there are several out there that don't close the eye all the way and for sure 6 lb test will go right out of them in a fight .
I have it happen all to often and sometimes its a big fish so yes sir I feel your pain .

I was using bonehead BX jig heads, I'm not trying to put down on them or anything. After it happened I went thru all of those jigs and every eye was closed tight so who knows. I'm going back to that treetop today with something a little bigger than a crappie jig lol

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jig eye probably. I use to do a lot of catfishing just as the circle hooks became popular as well as the braid line. There was more than one occasion where I had to throw away a big pack of circle hooks because they did not completely close the eye. It does not take much with thin braid to pull through that small gap with a lot of pressure from a 40 lb cat.