These days I rarely tie a line through the jig hook eye! Getting older, sometimes in low light or wind it's just too tough to hit that tiny diameter eye hole in the small jigs with their no 6 or 8 sizes. So I tie what I call a "notch knot". I start by tying a regular uni-knot by itself (not attached to anything), which I can do blindfolded. Then I take a loose jig ,hold it upside down, and place the loop over the head onto the neck of the jig. Holding that in place with a finger,I twist line once to form a figure 8, with the upper portion of the "8" placed over and AROUND the eye STEM (now on the bottom of the inverted jighead). Carefully pull the loop up tight to the "notch" right between the head and stem base. This yields a lower, straighter line, more direct hooking than when tied to an elevated jig eye, and has a lot more strength than any regular knot ,due to it not being forced into such a mono severing, teeny loop around the thin wire ring of a small hooked jig eye. My son & I fished a LOT of submerged brush this past season, and snagged a LOT -but our quickly tied notch knots almost always held fast -the line was broken above the knot when it had to be snapped off. One popular, expert Wisconsin fly fishing guide liked this so well, that he now teaches it to all his clients & during his seminars -even named it after me! Somewhere I even have a photo'd step-by-step for tying it,but a little experimenting and practice is really all it takes.
