Jig experts, I need your recommendations

[StogieMan]

Who (in your opinion) makes the best football head jigs. I am looking for those with and without skirts, painted if possible.
Thanks...Ron

[swimbait]

My jig sponsor (Assalt) doesn't make a football head so after I ran out of my hand tied football heads I shopped around. Gotta say the Revenge jigs are awesome. The only thing I didn't like about them was that the skirts are attached with rubber bands, but other than that they are sweet.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/descpage-RFBJ.html

[scott h]

Check out persuader they make an ecellent casting/football head jig with skirts in all the rihgt colors, the skirts are high quality thin cut silicone. You can get them at the hook,line&sinker in oakley or most tackle retailers in northern cal, or you can go to the site at persuaderamerican.com. Scott H.

[Steve]

....very easily with the smallest, black cable ties that you get at the hardware store. I put them on all my jigs and spinnerbaits before any of them ever reach the water. I never have a problem anymore with skirts falling apart.

But in the event that I do have a skirt fall apart, I use the strands to peg bullet weights using the Mojo tool. Now, if I could only figure out how to get those dern strands OUT of the bullet weight when done fishing Id be in bussiness

[swimbait]

For 2.99 a pop the jig could just come with a wire tie on it like a lot of other jigs do. Why cheap out on that when the rest of the jig is sweet?

When my skirts fall off these jigs I'll take the rubber skirts off some of my Assalt jigs with dull hooks and put them on instead so I can have some rubber and some silicon Just gotta roll with it.

[MrSkeeter]

Try Dan at Lim-it-Lures: limitluresca@skyq.com

[saLTY-]

go with those yamamoto jigheads with the weed guard. the come in black and are awesome and strong hooks. they are very sharp, and the gauge of the hooks are not too heavey nor too thin. great for your extra rubber skirts and just for grubs, spider jigs and so on.......buy them directly from yamamoto's website, i have not found anyone that beats their price...i always got about 3 packs or so in every size i need,,,..............THEY ARE A MUST IN MY BOX!!!!!!...........saLTIE-

[Andy Giannini]

Just leave the tag ends long heading back to the bait. Keep them short up front, to reduce the green stuff from ganging up, the tail end of the sinker can be left long. (Makes a good handle to yank it out.)

I have gone to the Top Brass "Peg It" that is like a rubber toothpick. Pretty cool, you don't need a Mojo wire tool any more, but a push pin thumbtack comes in handy. The lead Mojos can get beat up banging around in the box, and the holes kinda get smaller. Makes it tough to thread this stuff. One quick touch up with the push pin, and the holes are clear, and not sharpened to potentialy damage line.

I just put the Peg It alongside the line, and slide the line with the rubber toothpick in at the same time. It even works good enough for a big heavy carolina type mojo setup. A guy can also peg beads to make a more traditional Carolina as well. Same for a light brass and glass Carolina, you can still get the "snick" sound, and if you get tired of that just pull out the rubber toothpick and go back to brass and glass Texas style.

.02 A.G.

[Steve]

Andy, I use the rubber toothpicks as well. And they get stuck in the weight as well. Dont ask me why, never thought of leaving a tag end in the rear, sometimes the answer is staring you in the face and you still dont see it!

However, those toothpicks do not work on the small holes in tungsten weights, but keeping a tag end with the skirt material will still work.

[Andy Giannini]

Yammie makes some good ones! Persuader's is like a TROPHY football. Huge wire hook, could land a toad with it. Revenge makes a cool one that has some weedless things built right in.

For fishing lakes, I like my own. Just a Do-it mold, and Gammies. No paint, because when I am fishing it on the bottom, its kicking up silt anyway. Plus, naked lead seems grippier on everything and it kicks up in more erratic ways than something slick and powder coated. A guy can vary the amount of pure lead with wheel weights to get a more grippy jig, or a big one that is lighter and harder for the fishing conditions. Pure lead is more snag prone, and the lighter ones have the bulk to resist snagging plus a harder surface to bounce over rather than wedge. The recipes are endless.

Hey, Korny makes jigs too!

The big thing with jigs, is to have enough supply that loss is not a worry. Two reasons. If the angler is short on them, he won't really fish them properly. (In snag prone areas.) The second is apprehension over potentially losing them invariably leads to more snags. A guy needs to feel not sticky to everything, and really apply the baits. A good supply of them helps the cause.

Good jig fishing to ya Stoogie Man,

A.G.

[Andy Giannini]

I gotcha on the tungsten. The flip side to tungsten, and it really works well is the Ultra Steel bullets. They really shine in shale. Lead is grippy, gets stuck. Brass is pointy, gets stuck. Tungsten is heavy and smaller yet, same problem. Those dumb looking steel weights are bigger and lighter, and don't get stuck nearly as often in shale. No kidding, I can fish all night at Amador and not lose a rig! Its almost like a football? (I have always wished for a brass football!)

They all have different applications where they kick butt.

The rigging wrinkles for the different setups, is just a neverending interest. Its really a lot of fun to see what everone comes up with.

Good fishing to ya,

A.G.

[ash]

Pro Line Football Jig Heads.

Not the ones with the EWG hook, those are crap. They have a double collar and hold hula grubs on great. Sharp Gammie hooks, and good paint. They are by far my favorite football head.

For pitchin heads the Assalts are sweet.