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Strike King® Tour Grade Football Jigs
Strike King's Tour Grade Football Jigs are the ultimate deepwater, big-bass jigs! A wide football shaped head gives the Tour Grade Jig a superior feel and helps the jig stand-up and tantalize on the bottom. The flat eye line tie helps keep the line, knot and jig in the proper position, while an extra-sharp Gamakatsu® 60° round bend hook promotes true hook sets. Featuring durable powder-coated paint jobs and color coordinated weedguards, the Tour Grade Football Jigs sport premium skirts that produce a lifelike look and action.
Strike King's Tour Grade Football Jigs are the ultimate deepwater, big-bass jigs! A wide football shaped head gives the Tour Grade Jig a superior feel and helps the jig stand-up and tantalize on the bottom. The flat eye line tie helps keep the line, knot and jig in the proper position, while an extra-sharp Gamakatsu® 60° round bend hook promotes true hook sets. Featuring durable powder-coated paint jobs and color coordinated weedguards, the Tour Grade Football Jigs sport premium skirts that produce a lifelike look and action.
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I fish a retention pond in my neighborhood. The deepest spot in the pond is only 20 feet deep. I have been wanting to try jig fishing for a while but never knew where to start. The bottom quality of the pond is pretty bad. The "seaweed" that covers the bottom is pretty mcuh gunk and slime and nothing that is supposedly "weedless" ever comes back from a cast clean. Should I even worry about trying to jig fish? If I could try to jig fish here, what do I need to start?
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I would definitely try fishing a jig, especially if you are fishing from a boat. I like a vertical presentation with a jig where I cast a short distance to holes in the weeds or punch through thicker spots in weeds and pull line off my baitcast reel so the jig falls straight down. If my line jumps or moves to the side, immediately set the hook and reel quickly to get slack out of the line and a high gear ratio helps with picking up slack. I like a cone shaped head for weeds and heavier is usually a good thing for penetrating cover. I start with a 1/2 oz and go heavier as needed based on conditions and the mood of the bass.I like football head jigs best in deep water with either a sand or scattered rock bottom, and I drag the jig rather than hop it. I use 1/2 oz to 1 oz football heads depending on depth and the bass hit the best for me when I drag the football head across the bottom.
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Yes the jig is a great heavy cover lure. I would definitely use the football head.A:
You can try it, but jigs are mostly made for fishing deep structure on a hard or gravel bottom. You will be bringing up alot of junk with your jig fishing in seaweed. If you try start with a Football head jig, with a rage craw trailor or chunk trailor. The football head helps it not get hung up alot.Good Luck.
Jig fishing in the right place is awsome.
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jig fishing a pond with a mucky bottom is gona drive u crazy. personally i think jigs are best worked slowly across a rocky or gravel bottom. where crawfish wud live. no matter what jig u buy its bound to grab the grass n algae slime when worked on the bottom. other than swimming the jig, i wud recommend trying a drop shot. n try to keep ur bait just above the muck n stuff on the bottom.A:
Its my observation that fish dont like the gunk and slime and dont relate to it very well. A jig is designed to fish on the bottom unless you are swimming it, so I would try something else that will stay above the slime like a shallow crankbait
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If the bottom is as thick as you say, a traditional/football jig is going to be frustrating with all the cleaning between casts. You might consider a swim-jig, and try to keep if off the bottom.Details:
I just purchased 2 of these in the 1 Oz. size thinking they would be good to punch through the foilage on a lake I fish. When I saw how big these jigs actually are, it kinda concerns me to fish something that large in less than 4 feet of water. Any thoughts?Answers
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For me when I want to punch thick weeds I go to a cone shaped head on my jig and fish weights between 1/2 oz to 1 1/2oz and that comes through the weeds much easier than a football head. Football head jigs are great in open sandy or scattered rock bottoms and weight depends on depth. Football heads also are better dragged on the bottom rather than hopped so I like to go heavy most of the time.Images for this Answer
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Depends on how thick the foliage you are wanting to punch through. 3/4 oz is great in shallower water.A:
personally i fish the 1/2 oz. in 100ft. thats right 100ft depths w no problem ( calm lake of course) i wud use a 3/8 or at most 1/2 oz jig for shallow water (less than 8 to 10 ft). the problem is the heavier jig will get snagged n hung up behind every rock or stump or watever n break off. a lighter jig will come thru these structure types much easierA:
Well jigs are mainly meant to mimic crawfish which I have seen grow up to about the size of a lobster. I caught an eight pounder in four feet of water the first time out with this jig. It mainly depends on the size of the bass that inhabit your fishing spot. Hope this helped, Shelton.A:
The football head on these jigs will hang up in the foilage in your lake. I would recommend a jig designed for heavy cover with more of a pointed head that will come through the cover better.
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It all depends on the density of vegetation. If you have lilly pads or surface grass, it may work. If it doesn't consider one of the jigs designed with a bullet nose. There are also some punch-style weights, to fish flipping soft plastics with, that would by my second choice if the football won't go through.
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You will be surprized of the size of fish that will be in 4 feet of water,and I've had fish hit lures bigger than they are. I use what ever wieght it takes to punch through the top mat of foilage. I think you'll be fine, try it out, then try a lighter wieght one, never hurts to have a few different sizes and colors in your gear bag.hope ths helps ya out.
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There is a BassPro XPS Professional Tungsten Jig that comes in a variety of colors and ranges in size from 3/8 to 3/4 oz.http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_74328____SearchResults
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Bass pro shops has the XPS Professional Series Tungsten Jig. Tungsten jigs are great. With tungsten you can feel the bottom better, and it gets the jig down fast.
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