07-04-2007, 07:41 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I am sure that if you pull up your favorite search engine, and enter the appropriate topics, you could find more than you would ever want to read. However, since you asked, and since jig fishing is near and dear to my heart, I will provide some of the words and pictures I have put together over the years.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]First, is a PDF file on the generic subject of jig fishing. It is not trout specific, but you can extrapolate the generalized stuff. Also attached are pics of some of the jigs I use that are very much approved by trout...at least in the lakes of the USA. I suspect that the browns and other species in your country will find them equally attractive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are more and more large trout specialists in the USA that use jigs as a primary lure for their quarry. They use everything from 1/100 oz. microjigs to large 1 oz. heads with plastic tubes and grubs over six inches long...obviously not on the same waters for the same species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The great thing about jig fishing for trout is that it really lets you present something in the right size, shape and color...with the right action...anywhere from topwater to the bottom in deeper waters. And, you have your choice of materials for dressing the jigs, to create almost any imitation or attractor pattern you can come up with. I use a lot of synthetics, like mylar, Krystal Flash, Flashabou and some exotic body materials to concoct some outrageous trout patterns.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been using small plastic tube jigs for all species since the mid 70's. It only took me a hundred or more "accidental" catches of trout...on jigs being fished for other species...before I realized that jigs might actually be a good lure for trout too. Since then, I have a whole range of tubes and small "twister tail" grubs that I regularly cast for trout of several species. Sometimes I do better with darker colors, in solid blacks, browns, greens, purples and whites. On other occasions I provoke reaction strikes with bright colors or with to or three color jigs. It takes some experimenting on different waters and under different conditions of water temperature, clarity and light levels.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I love fishing small jigs for big trout, using ultralight spinning rods with line testing no more than about 4#. But, there are an increasing number of fly rod fanciers who are falling from grace and tieing small jigs on the ends of their leaders. They often find that small jigs are not all that difficult to cast...for short distances...and they can really help dredge the depths where large fish are sometimes difficult to work with fly fishing tackle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are a couple of the attached pictures that include "jig flies" and "Fly rod runners". These are small patterns, often tied with conventional fly patterns, but incorporating a painted jighead. The "Roadrunner" jigs also feature a small spinner blade which can really wake up the sleepy fish or call in the active ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As you will raad in the "epistle" on jig fishing, there are a multitude of ways to work jigs for trout. The simplest is to just cast and retrieve...counting down the sink and retrieving at a specified depth...or else letting it sink to the bottom and then lifting and dropping the jig on the retrieve, to simulate a hyperactive aquatic creature. There are many variations of course. If you are away from the bank, in a tube, you can cast in toward shore and then lift and drop the jig down the slope of the bank. Once you find the depth at which the fish are feeding, you can move in closer to shore and make casts parallel to shore and work the jig in "high percentage" water more of the time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I use my sonar to find concentrations of fish holding near the bottom, and then making "vertical presentations"...dropping the jig straight down and jigging it up off the bottom. It is often better to jig slightly above the fish, since they will more often rise up to take something than to watch the bottom and nose down to take a jig on the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That is the simplified version. Hope it provides food for thought...and a new style of fishing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]First, is a PDF file on the generic subject of jig fishing. It is not trout specific, but you can extrapolate the generalized stuff. Also attached are pics of some of the jigs I use that are very much approved by trout...at least in the lakes of the USA. I suspect that the browns and other species in your country will find them equally attractive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are more and more large trout specialists in the USA that use jigs as a primary lure for their quarry. They use everything from 1/100 oz. microjigs to large 1 oz. heads with plastic tubes and grubs over six inches long...obviously not on the same waters for the same species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The great thing about jig fishing for trout is that it really lets you present something in the right size, shape and color...with the right action...anywhere from topwater to the bottom in deeper waters. And, you have your choice of materials for dressing the jigs, to create almost any imitation or attractor pattern you can come up with. I use a lot of synthetics, like mylar, Krystal Flash, Flashabou and some exotic body materials to concoct some outrageous trout patterns.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have been using small plastic tube jigs for all species since the mid 70's. It only took me a hundred or more "accidental" catches of trout...on jigs being fished for other species...before I realized that jigs might actually be a good lure for trout too. Since then, I have a whole range of tubes and small "twister tail" grubs that I regularly cast for trout of several species. Sometimes I do better with darker colors, in solid blacks, browns, greens, purples and whites. On other occasions I provoke reaction strikes with bright colors or with to or three color jigs. It takes some experimenting on different waters and under different conditions of water temperature, clarity and light levels.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I love fishing small jigs for big trout, using ultralight spinning rods with line testing no more than about 4#. But, there are an increasing number of fly rod fanciers who are falling from grace and tieing small jigs on the ends of their leaders. They often find that small jigs are not all that difficult to cast...for short distances...and they can really help dredge the depths where large fish are sometimes difficult to work with fly fishing tackle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are a couple of the attached pictures that include "jig flies" and "Fly rod runners". These are small patterns, often tied with conventional fly patterns, but incorporating a painted jighead. The "Roadrunner" jigs also feature a small spinner blade which can really wake up the sleepy fish or call in the active ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As you will raad in the "epistle" on jig fishing, there are a multitude of ways to work jigs for trout. The simplest is to just cast and retrieve...counting down the sink and retrieving at a specified depth...or else letting it sink to the bottom and then lifting and dropping the jig on the retrieve, to simulate a hyperactive aquatic creature. There are many variations of course. If you are away from the bank, in a tube, you can cast in toward shore and then lift and drop the jig down the slope of the bank. Once you find the depth at which the fish are feeding, you can move in closer to shore and make casts parallel to shore and work the jig in "high percentage" water more of the time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I use my sonar to find concentrations of fish holding near the bottom, and then making "vertical presentations"...dropping the jig straight down and jigging it up off the bottom. It is often better to jig slightly above the fish, since they will more often rise up to take something than to watch the bottom and nose down to take a jig on the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That is the simplified version. Hope it provides food for thought...and a new style of fishing.[/#0000ff]
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