Jigger's

[wvmedic]

For you Folks who jig, do you vertical jig. Or do you swim the jig?

I was lucky enough to catch one Walleye and a few Northern Pike swimming a 3/8 jig with a plastic minnow on Ostaboningue.

Just curious how everyone does it, I have just started attempting to fish jigs.

Jeff

[Jay Thomas]

Hi Jeff,

If I jig,  I'll vertically jig 90% of the time,. However, occasionally I'll horizontally jig. And on very rare occasions, I'll tie on a swimming jig with a leech or a crawler and cast it out as far as I can and then swim it back to the boat.

Jay

[RHYBAK]

95% of the time I will cast my jig out,let it sink to bottom then slowly retrieve it back to the boat.

[CaptainCrappie]

If I start losing jigs in the rocks, I mostly vertical jig or suspend the jig while watching my locator.  My limited smarts has determined that those walleyes like a bit more movement when using a piece of crawler. Sometimes if I'm using a leech I'll rest it on the bottom a while.  The fun of it is trying to figure it out cause those pesky walleyes don't always bite no matter what you do!

C.C. 

[wvmedic]

Thanks for the replies Guy's, just trying to figure it out.

I caught my first Walleye on a jig vertical jigging using a leach while drifting in the chop. The last came swimming a paddle tail minnow, both were fun being as I have never used a jig.

The problem I have with casting and doing a slow retrieve @RHYBAK, is I can't always feel bottom. As from what I have read, you are supposed to feel the bottom even when an 1/8 oz jig. I'm using a 7' uglystick with 8# mono, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong with that.

Jeff

[RHYBAK]

For my casting,I use a 7foot St.Croix walleye rod,20 pound braid( Samurai) with a 2 foot fluorocarbon leader with the jig tied direct ( no swivel)

[wvmedic]

@RHYBAK, thanks.

I'll try some braid and see if that helps.

Jeff

[RHYBAK]

Just an FYI

I use the bottom of the line St. Croix rod
I believe it's the Triumph series.
About 90 dollars.

[wvmedic]

@RHYBAK, I'll check them out.

Thank you Sir.

Jeff

[Canuckbass]

Thanks for the replies Guy's, just trying to figure it out.

I caught my first Walleye on a jig vertical jigging using a leach while drifting in the chop. The last came swimming a paddle tail minnow, both were fun being as I have never used a jig.

The problem I have with casting and doing a slow retrieve @RHYBAK, is I can't always feel bottom. As from what I have read, you are supposed to feel the bottom even when an 1/8 oz jig. I'm using a 7' uglystick with 8# mono, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong with that.

Jeff

Not much sensitivity in Ugly Sticks, try a 1/4oz jig and may help.
I use a 6'6 medium light Abu Garcia with 8lb mono and feel everything. Using braid I'd feel I lot more.

[kipawa4]

  I use a 6 ft. St. Croix medium light Premier rod. With 8 lb. Crystal Fireline with a barrel swivel and a 2 Ft. 8 lb. fluorocarbon leader (sometimes 6 lb.). Tied directly to a 1/4 oz. round ball headed jig with a 3 inch twister tail and leech or worm. Then I jig vertically, jig drifting, jig casting and retrieveing,and use a jig slip bobbering ( 1/8 oz.).  And yes troll backwards with a jig. With added split shot when needed. Yes I do, go ahead and laugh. But it works. And yes I do use a jig sometimes!  I like a jig because you aren't fiddling around trying to get 14 hooks out of the mouth of the fish. Not that I don't use something else every ten years! Because you do have to change it up sometimes?

[wvmedic]

Thanks for the information Folks, I will try a more sensitive pole.

Jeff

[Jay Thomas]

Like Kipawa4, I too use a St. Croix 6 foot one piece Premier rod for jigging (PS60MLF). When I checked the St. Croix web site this morning, the MSRP for this rod was $120. I also checked out the rod that RYHBAK uses (Triumph series) and the MSRP for that rod is $90. The only difference between the two rods that I could discern from the web site was the guides - consequently, the Triumph may be the better choice. I use a Shimano Stradic C14 reel spooled with 8 pound Crystal Fireline and a fluorocarbon leader.

Jay

[wvmedic]

Thanks Jay.

[wvmedic]

@Jay Thomas, @RHYBAK

I bought a St. Croix Premier rod for jigging (PS66MLF2), it should be here today. I bought a Pflueger president 6930 to go with it, I'm going to spool it with 20# Sufix 832 and a fluro leader.

Jeff