What’s everybody’s favorite 1/16 oz. head? Ball head or freestyle? Also regular or sickle style? I do want them to straighten when hung to avoid breaking leaders off constantly when livescoping in brush.
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What’s everybody’s favorite 1/16 oz. head? Ball head or freestyle? Also regular or sickle style? I do want them to straighten when hung to avoid breaking leaders off constantly when livescoping in brush.
Personally I prefer wedge heads for structure. Limits Tackle has one with #6 J-hook that goes through the brush best any I’ve used. I really think the wedge turns the hook when against limb and reduces hang ups. Go slow and don’t set the hook on everything and you’ll eventually learn fish from structure.
I am no expert ,
I use a ball head , sickle hook, I use some 1/16 but more often 1/4. I am fishing brushpiles in 14-20 ft.
I wrap the hook shaft with dental floss , apply some super glue , then put on the plastic body. I do this ahead of time,
only take a few minutes to prepare a couple dozen, This practice makes the jigs last a long time,
When I used barbed heads , some plastics would only last for a few fish, Now one jig lasts several trips.
your mileage may vary
Mo
I get my jigs from
https://www.ebay.com/str/tcifishingl...SAAEgKvuPD_BwE
Go to his ebay store , you can find pretty much any size , style you want,
MO
Since I’m fishing exposed hooks I make all my plastics in hard plastic & they stay put on the hook a lot better than medium does.Quote:
Originally Posted by mozingo1952
I'm a fan of ball head handties, and fish a lot of mustad light wire hooks. I like a #2.
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I've been using round head with a spike weed guard & they work fine but wondered if there were better options since all i do is single pole with livescope?
ball heads run more true thru the water column , number 6 hooks help slow down the snags , smaller hook gaps , 2 crappie nibbles on the exposed hook makes it weedless and a light hand will get you thru it .....
a darting jig is much like a minnow and will find stuff that ain't a fish to hide in ....
big gap hooks are great if you are only after the big fish , but as well all know ,they tend to get hung up big in heavy cover, most folks just want to ketch fish not cover....
and in the end , bending them out after snagging up is wasting time , once compromised 99.9% of the hooks made are trash once you "fix" them , the temper is gone and if that isn't the case, they will snap off at the bend soon enough ....
now I am pretty sure some experts exist on this subject and know much better than me about all of it ....BUT ,,,,
I exist to ketch fish and have went about every ding dong direction in the pursuit of fish and after somewhere in the high thousands' numbers of failures with various hooks and weights and designs ....
the simple stuff I just recommended seem to work best for me , just saying.....
if you want to ketch lots of crappie .....rotfl
p.s. sickle hooks for the win ....
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Originally Posted by Ketchn
I've just started using the crappie nibbles. Is there a way to make them last longer on the hook, or do we just live with the mushiness quality of them? Heading to Pymy next week and will be trying different things. I really like the iFish jigheads with a japanese hooks.
I recently watched Richard Gene do this on one of his videos. I need to rig up some of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by mozingo1952
we’ll Ketchn you haven’t saw the size crappie I’m ketchn. Believe me brush is the only thing that will cause my hooks to break & it sure ain’t the weight of those big old crappie I’m ketchn. :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I make my own weedless jigs, ball and pony head in molds I modified to accept the weed guard, they can be a pain to pour but are worth the effort IMO. I also like large hooks, although I'm starting to rethink that some. Even small crappie have pretty large mouths, so larger hooks aren't a problem, at least for me.
Since I started using FFS I don't get hung up much and probably will make up a batch of jigs without the weed guard. I believe the horse head jig comes through brush with less hang ups than ball heads.
My go to in the brush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
BRUSH HOG Jigs - Ultimate Heavy Cover Jighead - SUPER Light Wire Hooks, wire keeper, wire guard at Simply Crappie
1/16oz I’m using a size 4 Mustad 32746 hook. About 3x the cost of your cheap Eagle Claw hook but a dang good hook. As far as style of head, any will work but I’m either using my minnow style head or the new wedge head I designed.
Thanks guys. That gives me a few to check out.