a new breed: articulated jigs

[Bucho]

From the squid to the sculpin to the ragworm - these things got my wheels spinning biiig time! :idea: The steel is flexible enough to thread a propeller and a bead up the shank. The hookeye is an extra eye I once bought for sinkers.
A skilled feather wire bender - who I am not - might of course save himself the money. The shank works best in silicon-modified colarless molds which hold the wire in place while pouring. Otherwise the lead will push it out of the cavity. Or it just drops, either wax.

The shank needs to be tied over in order to secure the hook, so a replacement hook would have to be an open eye seawash for instance. A walleye jig application might use a (shrink) tube to hold the stinger in place. Personly, I like the idea that I can put more value into a lure with exchangeable hooks and a longer life span. I also like the idea of smaller, downpointing hooks for my open water trout fishing.

 

[plateboater]

Now that is very interesting!!!!

 

[toadfrog]

Seems to me like If you made your own you could put a spring on the shank to make it interchangeable saving tying the open leg down . A lot of old time spinners had springs on them .

 

[Bucho]

Started out with a 1/4th "Isolde" version which is meant as a beginner-friendly kayak fishing lure for baltic seatrout, a group pattern that imitates both rag worm, gobies and sand eel depending on how you fish it.


Sold one to a customer that I met on the water. Few hours later he caught a nice fat 20" seatrout with it, his first kayak trout, second sea trout ever!



Since the jig is a good deal of work, I´m planning to offer replacement tail parts to it, tied on open eye siwash hooks that enhance the lifespan and allow for a decent retail price.

 

[plateboater]

Good Looking jig

 

[Bucho]

Good Looking jig

Thanks, I appreciate the gesture while I wasn´t really aiming at the looks. The guy who bought the first prototype has just added pike, perch, sea scorpion, a bag full of hering(!), atlantic cod and the first lure-caught saltwater eel pout that I ever heard of to the list. Just designated him the first official hairjig.com team angler. He won´t have to pay for hair jigs in my time.

 

[AtticaFish]

Love the idea and the results look and sound impressive! Can see those working very well for walleye around here.... guessing they would work similar to the popular Erie Dearie weight forward spinners here that are used for drift fishing with live bait. :jig:

Out of curiosity.... since there is no wire connecting the eye to the shank, is there a possibility of pulling the ends (the articulated shank in particular) out of the jig head while fighting a fish? Would think the fight might cause soft lead to bend some and allow a little wiggle room on the ends. Maybe not. I do not pour my own lures so not really sure how it works, but my thought is if some kind of wire form used in spinner baits or other lures might work to create a connection? Do-It Wire Forms Possible simplify the pouring problem of the shank/eye falling out also. Just thinking out loud.

 

[Bucho]

With a little tin to harden the alloy and designated brass lure eyes, that´s not an issue. The eyes don´t fit into every mold though. One of the legs frequently stands out in a 1/4th banana cavity. So I started to bend the long 50mm shanks in shape. They need to be cranked 90 degrees and then bend some 60-90 degree, similar to a jig hook. The result works very well and eliminates such worries even with use in a wobble jig head mold.

BTW the pattern looks like one hairy mess on the picture, but uses a three-step material mix: brown UV dyed polar chenille in front, regular brown polar chenille on the following hook shank and arctic fox for the tail. I had started with UV PC all the way, but that won´t move well in the water. Looks like a drowned mouse. The regular pc is much thinner and softer, while the bushier uv pc will remain thick and move some water which activates the softer material behind.

 

[fishindad]

Very nice and a great idea!

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