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!).
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.
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
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.
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 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