Jigs are one of the oldest, and most productive lures ever made.
They catch pretty much anything that swims, anywhere it swims, all year long. If you could only have one fishing lure, this would be it. They can be fished vertically, reeled in, fished with a stop-and-go technique, rigged in tandem, or even with other lures.
Roundhead jig with collar
A jig is just a hook with a weight in the front of it, usually molded to the hook.
Modern jigs have the hook eye bent up at a 90° angle so that it is on top of the jig. This lets you fish the jig vertically while it maintains a horizontal attitude. The hook can be dressed in bucktail, squirrel fur, feathers, a rubber shirt, or any number of various soft plastic bodies.
They can even be tipped with minnows, worms, or real grubs. To change jigs, many times it is only necessary to pull the body off the hook, and replace it with a different color or style….less than 10 seconds, tops. In reality, a spinnerbait is just a jig with a wire molded to it to attach a spinner. There are clip-on wires and spinner blades available to instantly convert any jig into a spinnerbait in seconds.
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