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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: ctom on 02/16/13 09:07 UTC
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I got a good hands-on look at this head the other day and I am going to have the mold soon. One of the most popular head designs used along the Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin is a head very, very similar to this one. I see this as a super head in any moving water situation but even our lake anglers are throwing these now when plastics are being fished. In moving water the design cuts current well without rising up while the size range the mold makes covers all of the weight needs, including those odd-1/16's sizes which seem to be the most popular weights. For the cold-water fishing we see which runs from about the end of October until about mid-April, this head design reigns supreme. Vertical jigging, casting/retrieving, or dragging, this head gets it done.
When I get my mold Mr. Dremel and I are going to have a small session to eliminate the eye sockets and create a smooth head all around...I paint on my eyes so sockets aren't needed.
I have a tough time leaving the ball-head arena for the crappie and sunfish jigs but for walleyes I have toyed with maybe a dozen styles and shapes of heads and this teardrop design just flat out covers all the bases that plastic fishing comes attatched to. I've been buying the plain heads in this tear-drop design for several years and painting them myself, but even the plain, un-painted, heads are spendy. I've had my eye on this particular mold for a couple years now and waited until I could see the head in hand. Having done so sold me. I'm getting this one just for my use.
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I saw Al Linder using this type of jig with a boottail worm for rip jigging last year. Ive got my mold with the keep wire and I like it a lot. It should pair good with a three inch worm boot tail! We're both thinking alike Tom, I don't sell baits but we'll both be fishing it this year1
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Ive also seen this type of jig used for river dragging with a half of nightcrawler for bait. The keeper wire does a good job of holding that crawler in place. They sell the jig as a "dragging jig"
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Good topic about a very good jig. There are a handful of videos at the Do-It YouTube channel with Do-It
Walleye Pro Tommy Skarlis pertaining to this jig. Here's a link to a pretty good one.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_Ssu3dP7o
A very effective technique with plastics or with live bait as a dropper on a three way rig.
Thanks,
Jerry
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Jerry, Why didn't you tell us you were a video star? Super video's. I watched a bunch of them. Liked the one on how to modify the brush jig to take a wire coil.
CTom- That teardrop jig I saw for sale was not a draggin jig; it was called a precision jig.
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I know, but the tear drop will drag just fine....that draggin jig is a joke in my book.
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CTOM you might want too wait on the mode. I have seen time and again were a jig with eyes on it out perform ones that don't. I have the poison tail and the ultra shade and seems to me the eyes make it. thanks Jerry for video looks like there is another mold with my name on it. I have 25 molds now from Do-It. I do a lot of swim jigging in current on the river. mike
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Walleye....I put eyes on some of my jigs but as a rule prefer those without over those with. And if I use eyes on a head, I paint them and don't use glue on eyes at all. On the tear drop head I do not want to have the socket, just a smooth finish.