Jig n' Rabbit - Bass

[AtticaFish]

Have been doing really well on these jigs, a take off of the traditional jig n' pig style lures but substituting several long zonker strips instead of a pork trailer.

For the heads, i used split shots crimped onto a #1 aberdeen hook with a slightly bent eye.



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I made 3 of each of these and gave them to a friend after he watched me catch several fish one evening on them and he went home skunked!! i offered him to go through my box and pick a few to put in his box, but he wouldn't take any of mine so i made him 'his own' little assortment. his first trip out, he caught 3 LMB in short order... think i made him a believer.

 

[ScottV]

Those look really goood. I bet they have more action than pork or plastic.

 

[toadfrog]

Tell YOU WHAT, I like the jig. But I like the ingenuity even better. Of all the stuff I've done the sinker trick is a good one that escaped me. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Very creative integration of 3 different styles of jigs. Are these the ones the catfish are biting?

 

[AtticaFish]

ScottV - I believe they have a similar action as one of the long skinny strips of pork but with the added hair to wiggle around some. it blows away plastic IMO!

Toadfrog - Have been very pleased with these heads. think i have it figured out where they do not get hung in rocks all that bad.... if i keep my rod tip high (about 10:00) on my retrive, it seems to skip over the rocks much better. not the best position to set the hook from, but have lost alot less of these than a regular 90deg. bend jig.

Hawn - i have caught 1 cat on one of these in the river, but think that was somewhat of a fluke. the ones i have been dragging behind the boat and getting cats on are pretty simple straight jigs with a zonker strip - a leech pattern more or less in either all black or gray.

 

[skeetbum]

Attica, you would have fun in Tim's Ford here by me with that jig. There's a good smallie population, and if you pay attention you can keep a good jig like that out of the rocks. If you have to keep a high rod tip then a high speed reel would be in order to pick up line and let you deliver a good hookset. I'm gonna have to try some bunny and see if my allergies will let me. Good stuff you got there.

 

[StumpHunter]

I really like the look of those jigs. Great job with the zonkers and the color combo.

 

[Pup]

AF, Your jigs look great. Those Aberdeen hooks look deadly. Well done.

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