Jigs, Will You Only Buy Hand Tied? 2024
mattk22 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?
FinCulture reply :
nope!
Brayberry 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.
kickerfish1 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.
MIbassyaker 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?
poisonokie reply :
from now on, all I'm buying are Siebert wire tied jigs.
kickerfish1 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.
Catt reply :
Nope!
I use a tiny zip-tie to hold every skirt on every thing!
Weld's Largemouth reply :
Hand tied jigs, such as those siebert outdoors makes, are sometimes cheaper than other jigs.
ChrisD46 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 !
rangerjockey 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..
gardnerjigman 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.
ww2farmer reply :
I only use rubber collers. Simple, cheap, effective, easy to use, and easy to change skirts.
deep 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?
scaleface 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 .
gardnerjigman 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.
zeth 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.
Turtle135 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.
tholmes 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
ww2farmer 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
buzzed 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.
NotnatsSamoht 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.
roadwarrior reply :
Siebert Outdoors, wire tied for me.
travis23 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.
wytstang 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.
Cgrinder reply :
Yep.
WRB 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
kickerfish1 reply :
Wire has zero impact on silicone skirt damage if done correctly.
Felix77 reply :
Nope. The bass could care less. 
Bluebasser86 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).
BassThumb 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.
Catt reply :
I can zip-tie faster than y'all can get your wire out
hatrix 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.
boostr 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.
boostr reply :
Or maybe I'll stay collared...
5 Dollar Fishing Game reply :
Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.
Catt 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!
jtharris3 reply :
Whatever works best for me is what I use. Typically the cheaper the better.
thirtysixit 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.
jbarnard reply :
i like a simple arkie rattle band jig i normally zip tie the band on them and there good to go
blckshirt98 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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