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?
nope!
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.
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.
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?
from now on, all I'm buying are Siebert wire tied jigs.
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.
Nope!
I use a tiny zip-tie to hold every skirt on every thing!
Hand tied jigs, such as those siebert outdoors makes, are sometimes cheaper than other jigs.
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 !
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..
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.
I only use rubber collers. Simple, cheap, effective, easy to use, and easy to change skirts.
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?
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Siebert Outdoors, wire tied for me.
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.
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.
Yep.
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
Wire has zero impact on silicone skirt damage if done correctly.
Nope. The bass could care less.
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).
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.
I can zip-tie faster than y'all can get your wire out
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.
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.
Or maybe I'll stay collared...
Not picky. I've caught toads on the Walmart specials.
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!
Whatever works best for me is what I use. Typically the cheaper the better.
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.
i like a simple arkie rattle band jig i normally zip tie the band on them and there good to go
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!).