I like to use Pro Cure steelhead combo scent on my jig's.

WARNING: This can happen to your jig when you tip it and there are chum around.

Tiger prawn chunk cured in Pautzke Fire cure. First Bite beaded shrimp tail jig (thanks Mark!).

I've found a lot of jigs laying around through time with the hooks like that, but they always seemed to have a few extra scales on the hook.

Why is it that so many jig companies make jigs with lightwire hooks?

Keith

People that use training wheels are prone to having limp wrists. Gotta have those jigs with a fine wire hook for better penetration.



PS. The only person that I know if that does NOT limp wrist a hookset on a Flow-At is Superfly. Superfly has been known to break the sound barrier on his hooksets!

that there is a Mutzuo hook (aka RVRFSHR Sickle hook, locally).

ummmm, thinking of that jig rod as more of a "sidecar" for me than training wheels! many of us have learned to drift fish LONG before we picked up the float rods. Many times I have drift fished a hole over, picked up the jig and there he is!

I use Mustad 2x strong jigs hooks and have never had one bend out. They are a great hook for micro jigs which I use a lot of even in the winter. Caught Chinook, Coho and Steelhead this fall on micro's without a bent hook.

Yea that Bead Shrimp Tail Jig is a killer jig. Too bad the hook popped out on you. Could have been a bad hook, strong fish or most likely a combination of both.




Keith

Given the quality of jig hooks available today I don't know why any jig company would use an inferior light wire hook. That is why I use Matzuo Sickle Model 152 which is the strongest, baddest Matzuo Sickle jig hook they make.

When I fish for salmon including Chum then I use Owner Salt water needle-point 5/0 hooks with 40# test. This is my standard set-up for fishing Tillamook Kings. You know John Barth and his buddies. Well they use my 5/0 jigs this fall and landed fish in the mid 40's.





I couldn't agree with you more. A lot of times a jig is the last thing I toss at a hole and pop a fish.



[quote=steelhead_stalkers]I use Mustad 2x strong jigs hooks and have never had one bend out. They are a great hook for micro jigs which I use a lot of even in the winter. Caught Chinook, Coho and Steelhead this fall on micro's without a bent hook.



Nice picture there bud. Those Mustad 2x hooks are strong too.

Mark

I would have to disagree. As one of the primary "Jig Warriors" during those days I now feel like it was a total waste of time and effort and I probably embarrassed myself a lot more than convincing anyone that a certain jig was superior to others.
Be ethical and fish with what ever catches fish for you.

Thanks for the great tips guys, I'm writing them all down... If you "tip" a bartender is it kind of the same thing, or is it better to rub their head with scent?

You got it all wrong. If she's hot, you let her rub scent on your head....

Hey Mark,
didn't see that you posted... my photo above of the bent up hook was after releasing the chum. It did not pop out and did what it needed to to get that bad boy to the boat for a quick release. I retired the jig- and certainly enjoy showing what a monster fish will do to any quality hook.

probably doesn't help that I bend the hook sideways before fishing any piece of hardware or jig.

owner hooks.

I don't care who's jigs you fish. If you fish them with bait, the secrets in "the bait"..... Fishing jigs alone is where the real art begins. Steelhead will bite anything with a sandshrimp dangling from it (fingernail, crap, toejam, doghair, livestrong braceletes, etc). However, they won't touch just "any" jig fished alone. That's where it gets fun!

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Yea it's fun to hook a big fish and have them really test your gear to the limit. Thanks for sharing.

Mark