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Jigs, Will You Only Buy Hand Tied? 2024


fishing user avatarmattk22 reply : 

When buying a jig, is hand tied jigs a big deal to you? will you spend an extra $1 or $2 for hand tied? Do you only buy banded? It really doesn't matter to you?


fishing user avatarFinCulture reply : 

nope!


fishing user avatarBrayberry reply : 

I'm the minority here, but I like the rubber bands instead.  I can change the skirt on the fly if need be, if the skirt gets ripped up by a fish, turlte, or whatever I can replace it.  Also I'll lose the jig way way way before any bands rot.  The rubber bands now a days are made way better then the 90's anyway.


fishing user avatarkickerfish1 reply : 

Probably 90% of what I buy from my jig guys are hand tied. If I assemble them myself it will be a collar style though I may wire tie them as a winter project.

As a side note wire tie should be no more than $.50 extra per jig. If you buy from Siebert Mike gives you a wire or collar option.


fishing user avatarMIbassyaker reply : 
  On 9/18/2015 at 10:37 AM, kickerfish1 said:

Probably 90% of what I buy from my jig guys are hand tied. If I assemble them myself it will be a collar style though I may wire tie them as a winter project.

As a side note wire tie should be no more than $.50 extra per jig. If you buy from Siebert Mike gives you a wire or collar option.

 

Digression: I don't know anything about tying jigs, but I have discovered my wife has tons of crafting wire. Suppose I ask her if I can "borrow" some for exactly this purpose; what should I check to see what she has?


fishing user avatarpoisonokie reply : 

from now on, all I'm buying are Siebert wire tied jigs.


fishing user avatarkickerfish1 reply : 

I like 22 or 24 gauge floral wire for silicone or rubber skirt material. You can find it at your local craft store for just a few bucks.


fishing user avatarCatt reply : 

Nope!

I use a tiny zip-tie to hold every skirt on every thing!


fishing user avatarWeld's Largemouth reply : 

Hand tied jigs, such as those siebert outdoors makes, are sometimes cheaper than other jigs.


fishing user avatarChrisD46 reply : 
  On 9/18/2015 at 10:53 AM, poisonokie said:

from now on, all I'm buying are Siebert wire tied jigs.

^^This ^^ ... For what Mike Siebert provides - I make every effort to use his hand crafted jigs first !


fishing user avatarrangerjockey reply : 

Probably 80% of the Jigs I use are Ernest Langley's. They are hand tied but I would still buy them if he used a collar. Great quality and colors..


fishing user avatargardnerjigman reply : 

I only use hand made wire tied jigs now. I use to use banded ones, but I keep a large assortment of jigs. I have multiple of sizes, styles for each color I throw. I was getting a lot of band rot. I also started having issues with the guards. This was a VERY reputable company that I basically no longer use.


fishing user avatarww2farmer reply : 

I only use rubber collers. Simple, cheap, effective, easy to use, and easy to change skirts.


fishing user avatardeep reply : 

Wire-tie is better. If it comes with a rubber band, no big deal. I spend a few seconds to wire-tie it myself.

 

 

I get the impression that

 

1. Some/ most of you fish straight silicone jigs.

2. You fish them straight out of package without any modifications whatsoever.

 

Is that right?


fishing user avatarscaleface reply : 

 No , I am not picky on skirts . I once bought a bunch of cheap spinnerbats for a quarter a piece just to get the skirts  .


fishing user avatargardnerjigman reply : 
  On 9/18/2015 at 8:22 PM, deep said:

Wire-tie is better. If it comes with a rubber band, no big deal. I spend a few seconds to wire-tie it myself.

 

 

I get the impression that

 

1. Some/ most of you fish straight silicone jigs.

2. You fish them straight out of package without any modifications whatsoever.

 

Is that right?

 

 

There aren't many things I fish straight out of the package. I like to tweak and tune. 


fishing user avatarzeth reply : 

I prefer to be able to switch between skirts. 

That being said I also prefer most hand tied jigs.

I think it's situation specific for me and probably about 50/50.


fishing user avatarTurtle135 reply : 

I buy jigheads and I wire tie them myself. I use rubber skirt material pretty much exclusively. Cost per jig is less than a buck each.

 

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fishing user avatartholmes reply : 

I fish hand-tied jigs exclusively. Tholmes custom made, silicone, rubber, bucktail, maribou, etc. All the way from 1/80 oz. trout and panfish jigs to 1 oz. bucktaila for stripers. I haven't bought a jig in 40 years.

 

Tom


fishing user avatarww2farmer reply : 
  On 9/18/2015 at 8:53 PM, gardnerjigman said:

There aren't many things I fish straight out of the package. I like to tweak and tune.

Same here


fishing user avatarbuzzed bait reply : 

i like the wire tie after trying them...  only another .35 with siebert and never have to worry about losing the skirt or the band rotting.


fishing user avatarNotnatsSamoht reply : 

The only thing I'm picky about on a jig is the hook, the skirt and collar can be replaced, if I keep it long enough, I bank fish some rocky spots and sometimes my jigs don't make it back.


fishing user avatarroadwarrior reply : 

Siebert Outdoors, wire tied for me.

 

 

 

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fishing user avatartravis23 reply : 

It doesn't matter all that much to me. Like a lot of us, I will probably lose a jig before the collar rots or the skirt gets torn to shreds. I have them made both ways though, and I do like the option for a wire tied.


fishing user avatarwytstang reply : 

Recently I've had 2 bands fail from a manufacturer I did not expet it from so I will be hand tying new skirts on. Having said that my D&M jigs still have their bands on and never slide off. My Siebert & North Star jigs (hand tied only jigs) have never failed and never slide. If I can wait I'll order hand tied jigs and if I can't and D&M has what I am looking for I have zero issue ordering them.


fishing user avatarCgrinder reply : 

Yep.


fishing user avatarWRB reply : 

Hair jigs are thread tied.

Living rubber are wire tied.

Silicone are rubber collars to initially make then and a 3" narrow (3/32) black nylon cable Ty to lock it down onto the jig.

Wire can cut silicone skirt strips.

Tom


fishing user avatarkickerfish1 reply : 

Wire has zero impact on silicone skirt damage if done correctly.


fishing user avatarFelix77 reply : 

Nope. The bass could care less. :)


fishing user avatarBluebasser86 reply : 

I wire tie all mine. It takes about the same amount of time to tie a skirt as it does to band one and it last so much longer (not that I ever get to keep a jig very long). 


fishing user avatarBassThumb reply : 

I only use wire-tied nowadays.

I catch a lot of small to mid-sized northern pike on jigs, and their teeth cut through those rubber bands in no time.


fishing user avatarCatt reply : 

I can zip-tie faster than y'all can get your wire out


fishing user avatarhatrix reply : 

I use both I guess. I am not sped picky about it really. There are wire tied and there are ones held with bands. There are also interchangeable ones with colars. I do like some collared skirts but it depends. There are different levels on quality on those for sure. For example the skirts that come on a zman chatterbait only have one layer of skirt and are very thin. Now the collared ones I get from my local shop have as much skirt material as you could ever want and are very nicely put together. They are also like $1 each or 5 for $4 for them but they have tons of great color patterns there and you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.


fishing user avatarboostr reply : 

I have rubber collars because when I was bank fishing I would lose a lot of jigs so it didn't make sense to spend the extra money for wire tied , but now that I'm on the water in my yak I can retrieve my jigs if they get stuck 100 percent of the time so far. I will be going to wire tie over the winter.


fishing user avatarboostr reply : 

Or maybe I'll stay collared...


fishing user avatar5 Dollar Fishing Game reply : 

Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.


fishing user avatarCatt reply : 
  On 9/22/2015 at 6:02 AM, 5 Dollar Fishing Game said:

Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.

Ran out before, Toledo Tackle was closed ran to Walmart in Jasper; continued to kill em!


fishing user avatarjtharris3 reply : 

Whatever works best for me is what I use. Typically the cheaper the better.


fishing user avatarthirtysixit reply : 

Color matters most to me.   I fish Revenge and Skinny Bear Jigs. They are both great jigs.  One is hand tied the other is not... I have equal confidence in both.


fishing user avatarjbarnard reply : 

i like a simple arkie rattle band jig i normally zip tie the band on them and there good to go


fishing user avatarblckshirt98 reply : 

Band rot drives me up the wall, I've had to buy mini zip ties to lock down jigs(and spinnerbaits/chatterbaits) with band rot.  I always try to buy hand tied now (Cooch's TnT Wadda Jigs!).




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