Whats everyones favorite 3/4 oz football jig?
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Whats everyones favorite 3/4 oz football jig?
Assume you mean skirted/weesless I buy heads from lureparts.
Fishing non skirted, no weed guard use gamakatsu 24 heads.
Jewel football jig.
santone
Keitech; both skirted and plain heads. Albeit the hooks do bend out easily so can’t crack on the bass like a normal jig
Hayabusa casting heads were great to make jigs with but they discontinued them.
Bassdozer
Legal Limit Lures beautiful baits!
Football jig is one jig I'm not too particular about the brand. As long as good quality , I'm good .
Jewel is hard to beat in the Ozarks !.....5/16 oz also :wink:
Dirty Jigs mostly. I still fish some Arkie jigs I’ve had for a while.
Jewel or home made.
I wish Keitech made a 3/4 oz football jig! I love their smaller FB jigs though. They finally came out with the new M4 Heavy Duty casting jig that is absolutely amazing. I've wanted this jig for years and it is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by ECobb91
In 3/4 oz, I use both the Queen Tungsten and the Beast Coast tungsten FB jigs. Great hooks, great feel, and really effective.
Didn’t realize the smaller ones didn’t come in 3/4oz hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Bronzefly
their casting jigs are phenomenal too.
have you tried their new cranking football jigs? Just curious if the size is the same profile as the model IIs or the size of their casting jigs
Siebert Outdoors Extreme and Dredge jigs.
Yes they are. I've always loved the Keitech casting and foot ball jigs, but have only used the tungsten. I have not tried the cranking football jigs, but I like the design and the idea. I bet they'd be killer for SMB up north...Quote:
Originally Posted by ECobb91
Dirty Jigs
I’ve had tremendous success with the strike king tour grade football jig.
I buy the Boss heads and tie my own skirts
Hard to beat the beast coast, compact, great hook, dont get snagged easy.
I went thru this process and it involves line tie angles and hook size, strength and barb size and the type of structure you fish,
and very good abrasion resistant line and the right rod as the bass can throw a heavy jig that is not well hooked.
My lake has a ton of rock and it varies from boulders of granite to shale that has lots of crevices. In the beginning, I was
losing 5-10 jigs a day as I sorted thru jig makes. In the end, I like 60 degree line ties with football jigs and large hooks.
Since you have a chance to hook a very large bass with a bigger profile jig, I also use a 7ft 6in NRX rod that is rated
to 2 ounces and use 20lb flurocarbon line. I used to use Seaguar abrazx, but struggled. Did some research online
and turns out the Seaguar Basix, yea the cheap stuff, is much more resistant to line abrasions. I do also use
some tungsten heads but with those I want a 90 degree line tie to protect the line.
I have found tungsten seems to cause more abrasion than lead and a 90 degree protects a bit better, but you have to
work it a bit different. Tungsten is smaller so you get a faster fall rate unless you use a larger more active trailer,
reason I use both types. The NRX rod I use is more moderate in action, will actually use it as a very heavy slop
frog rod. A large capacity spool for the reel as the 20lb is big and you still need to pay attention to the line for nicks
and I take off a foot on so when I retie as I have found the first foot or so gets alot of stress from casting and you can
see it get milky from the microfractures....Can you tell I am an engineer at heart? lol