Hello, I'm professional angler Gary Klein and I'd like to take a few minutes to try
and explain commonly asked questions I get asked all the time the across the country.
JIGS. I kind of have a reputation for building, tinkering, and being part of FishBoss.com
offering other anglers the opportunity to do exactly what I do; build their own baits
and create their own baits. Lets first just start out with picking out certain jig heads
for certain conditions. Basically all a jig head is, is lead on a hook. That's it, lead
on a hook. But as we build we're building a bait for a certain condition and let me
just explain this right here. If you look at the line ties on all the different jig
heads that we offer, the shape of the head of the head is for a reason and the hook that's
in that head is for a reason. Here we have a jig that is designed for cover. You notice
that the line tie is coming out the very tip of the jig head itself. The reason for this
is when you're fishing like say wood you want to have a perfectly smooth transition from
the line, to the knot, and underneath the head so you have no material to get hung up
in the cover. This allows the jig to follow the line through the cover. That right there
is a heavy cover bait. Where as a football head jig is designed for two reasons. One
if you notice the weight according to the hook and the line tie basically comes out of
the jig head. This is a 3/4-ounce football head and two things it's basically designed
for; one is a vertical fall. This is one of the few jig heads that you can use if you
fishing vertical bluff walls or maybe shade lines on dock where you can cast it up and
free spool it and it will fall straight. This is because the majority of the lead is forward
the line tie so it falls down. The more common use of the football head is to drag it on
the rocks, pea gravel, and that's the reason why we have the line tie on top because it
doesn't make contact with the rocks as often as if you were to use this jig here and your
knot would constantly be driven into the rocks. With your line tie on top of a football head
your line tie stays away from contact with the rocks. But most importantly what it does
is this is your pull point and as you're dragging like most of us fish the football head, drag
it with you're rod tip or do a little reel with the handle, what you're doing is you're
pulling it here but you're actually pivoting the jig up so it elevates your trailer a little
bit and it also rubbles across the bottom very well. That's a football head jig and
this is not a heavy cover bait. You throw this into wood and you'll have issues. This
is like one of our heavy duty, heavy cover jigs with a big magnum hook in it and it's
called our Winch Jig and this is just a little 3/8. But again I have the line tie and a perfect
smooth tradition going past the jig. This bait was designed for big trees, big laid
over logs, big bushes, and heavy line. So that's just kind of it in a nutshell. When
you take a look at a jig head even you're little shaky heads, football heads, heavy
cover jig heads, they're all designed for a reason so you need to basically fish them
for the right conditions.