Stand Up Jig
Jul 5, 2020 17:30:35 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
I started making these last year, after a trip to Canada walleye fishing. Wanted a jig that stood up on the bottom, but didn't sink in or get caught on stuff so easily. Of course, I couldn't find any, so I make my own. I took thin sheet metal, cut it to shape with shears, bent it around the hook and then soldered it in place. That one is about 1/8 ounce, but I have made them in several sizes/weights. One feature that is really cool is the fact that as it drops, or on a slow retrieve, it flutters back and forth, so the bait/soft plastic gets a lot of natural action. The walleye, bass and northern all love them.
Jul 5, 2020 17:34:57 #
Jul 5, 2020 17:38:21 #
jfbanzai wrote:
I started making these last year, after a trip to ... (show quote)
Nice, that ought to flutter nicely, too.
Jul 5, 2020 17:49:17 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Spiritof27 wrote:
Awesome. How much for 10? Barbless. On a #8 circle hook.
Not sure, it would depend on how much of a pain it is to make them on a circle hook.
Jul 5, 2020 18:06:38 #
Jul 5, 2020 18:07:46 #
PM me and I'll send you a couple of hooks if you give me your address? You can play around with them.
Jul 5, 2020 18:27:52 #
Jul 5, 2020 18:30:53 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Here's a few more. The rigged ones are for bass. When I use them for walleye, I tip them with either a minnow or leech.
Jul 5, 2020 18:34:14 #
jfbanzai wrote:
Here's a few more. The rigged ones are for bass. When I use them for walleye, I tip them with either a minnow or leech.
Very creative there banzai. Wish my ‘old timers’ would let me think of things like that😂😂. You da man!
Jul 5, 2020 18:44:14 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Huntm22 wrote:
Very creative there banzai. Wish my ‘old timers’ would let me think of things like that😂😂. You da man!
There's at least some upside to having a brain that never shuts off, but sometimes it's just annoying, like when I'm trying to sleep.
Jul 5, 2020 18:50:06 #
You sleep? How do you accomplish that - please send me the recipe 😂😂
Jul 5, 2020 18:56:16 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Huntm22 wrote:
You sleep? How do you accomplish that - please send me the recipe 😂😂
Work out hard and take Tylenol PM. Luckily, I don't require a whole lot of sleep, or maybe I'm just used to it. Between back pain and nerve damage, I can't be in one position for very long anyway.
Jul 5, 2020 19:12:15 #
Have ruptured L4,5,6 and C2,5. Repaired both rotators in the last 5 years and snapped the tendons in the right forearm a couple years ago. The disks were 30 and 20 years ago so have not slept great since then. Lost both my uncles (dads brothers) and dad with Alzheimer's in the last 6 years and I think my future is evident. They gonna have to take me kickin & screamin!!
Jul 5, 2020 19:41:46 #
jfbanzai wrote:
I started making these last year, after a trip to ... (show quote)
Need to take the pictures down and check on a patient.
If they are not already being sold.
Jul 5, 2020 19:42:46 #
jfbanzai
Loc: Menomonie, Wisconsin
My dad passed away a few years ago from the same thing. I don't wish that on anyone. I've got 3 discs in my lower back that are basically garbage and degenerative nerve disease, so pain is an everyday thing. Good news is that I'm 56 and still work most people half my age into the ground, although with the current generation, that's not as hard as it once was. I will fight until my last breath, and then the devil better beware!
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