Up here in the cool weather [tongue-in-cheek] part of the country, walleye angler on the Mississippi use a jig technique called dragging. Like anything involving walleyes, this technique can get complicated especially when the river comes up from spring run-off or heavy rains. Dragging will continue to be productive but jig weight really needs to increase with the heavy flow. There are a couple jigs made today that focus on the dragging techniques but they top out at around 3/8 ounce and sometimes that's cutting the weight short. Enter the Snootie made right here by Do-It.
First off walleye anglers aren't needing weed guards, so my initial thought was that this aspect had to go. Then that ball keeper had to sail, but the head would still need something to grab plastics and Do-It's wire keepers seemed a likely culprit so I set out to solve some problem. JB Weld's high temp epoxy putty came to the rescue to close off areas I didn't want. Then some simple hand filing and a buzz or two from the handy moto-tool and I was set for the maiden voyage. Here they are....
From the top downward they weight 3/8, 1/2 and 5/8 ounce. All are cast on 4/0 black chrome hooks, the purple being Sickle hooks and the standard hook shape being the Mustad that Do-It sells for this jig head.
The 60 degree leg allows this head to pull line-forward more than the traditional 90 degree legs and for dragging this is needed. I don't fiddle with eyes on jigs, but they'd sure be pretty on this head.
