Jig weed guards

[PJ-Rohlf]

So have some jigs that I want to tie new skirts on, but kind of a pain in the butt to work around the weedguard. Anyone know best way to remove the guard and be able to glue a new one in place?

[apdriver]

Probably try drilling them out but I’ve never tried it. Stick it in a vice would be the safest way. Keep fingers out of harms way.

[21XDC]

Just grab the weed guard low near the lead with needle nose pliers and roll the pliers.

[dwtaylor]

Remove? No.

I have tried to thread tie jigs with the weedguard kind of bent out of the way and it isn't very efficient. Caleb Kuphall has a pretty decent short video tying a jig with thread on a vice with the weedguard installed. Not my cup of tea.

With that said, if I am adding a skirt to a jig with a weedguard, I am using the rubber collars and a skirt collar tool to assemble the jig and then once installed, I tie the skirt with wire for a more durable connection. No thread tying with a weedguard for me in that circumstance.

I do prefer thread tied skirts and do that before I glue weedguards in.

[21XDC]

Try 20-22 gauge wire 2 wraps instead of thread. That is how I built thousands of jigs with weedguards in.

[alanhore]

Try 20-22 gauge wire 2 wraps instead of thread. That is how I built thousands of jigs with weedguards in.

Same here.

[PJ-Rohlf]

I was going to remove weedguards since they are unpainted heads. So knowing I will likely melt them when doing the powder paint I was just going to remove to make it easier and install new guards.

[Mybigfish812]

Try 20-22 gauge wire 2 wraps instead of thread. That is how I built thousands of jigs with weedguards in.

Do you use copper wire or annealed stainless steel wire?

[SoonerFan]

I slip a short piece of aquarium tubing over the guard and then just be careful and work around it when I make the wire wraps

Do you use copper wire or annealed stainless steel wire?

I use red 26 gauge floral wire. I like the red flash it has...maybe looks like gills or a wound. It comes in a lot of different colors.

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[21XDC]

Do you use copper wire or annealed stainless steel wire?

Copper craft wire. Comes in many colors. Floral wire rusts.

[SoonerFan]

Copper craft wire. Comes in many colors. Floral wire rusts.

I suppose it could rust but in three years of using it I can find NO rust on any of my jigs. Maybe the red coating protects them or maybe I get them hung up before they rust. Anyway, it isn't a problem.

I will check on copper and see if it has what I want as far as color goes.

[21XDC]

You might be using different floral wire than I have tried in the past. The stuff I tried rusted bad.

[Basshunter67]

I use upholstery thread 135m Coats & Clark over 40 years now I tie all my jigs with weed guards glued in place.

[sooner magic]

I tie all my jigs with braid and it really isn't that difficult. However I do tie the skirt to the hook with those little twisty things that come on bread sacks to keep the skirt out of my way.

[SoonerFan]

You might be using different floral wire than I have tried in the past. The stuff I tried rusted bad.

I probably don't get them wet often enough.

[618PRO]

Drill a 1/16 hole in the top of a spent 22 shell. Take a piece of spinnerbait wire about 2 inches long and put a 90 degree bend on both ends about 1/4” long. Stick the shell casing down over the weedguard, stick one end of the spinnerbait wire in the 1/16 hole and the other end through the eye of the hook. It will bend and hold the guard out of the way to tie on the skirt.

[Amistad Tackle]

I use upholstery thread 135m Coats & Clark over 40 years now I tie all my jigs with weed guards glued in place.

This what I use also from a post you made years ago. Best material by far in my opinion for tying jigs.