2011 Jig fishing challenge

[benjineer]

Hook sets are free...set the hook on everything until you get the feel for it. Nothing like setting the hook on a weed and having a 1/2oz jig fly by your head. :LOL2:

Hahaha..Yeah, I bruised my chest the other day un-setting the hook from a tree. Seriously though, a guy got killed in NY in '08 when he took a 3oz egg sinker in the head. That's the first thing I thought of after my jig attack. Fishing is dangerous!

 

[dyeguy1212]

My girlfriend's dad does that constantly. He snapped his sunglasses last year (right at the bridge of his nose), and he already slided and bruised his chin this year fishing in FL. I'll stick to crankbaits and sweep-setting the hook 8)

 

[Captain Ahab]

Does more than one fish/picture add to your number of entries into the lottery or is it one entry per person just curious?

The more photos (of different fish) the more chances!

Catch them up

 

[jkbirocz]

Got my first entry this morning, got it on some generic 1/2oz+ blue jig I got at a local tackle shop, added a big black zoom chunk trailer and some sex panther galric scent

entry 1

entry 2 black and blue 1/2oz arkie jig with black and purple porkrind trailer

entry 3 war eagle jig in ozark craw with a potomac craw paca craw trailer

 

[fish devil]

Does more than one fish/picture add to your number of entries into the lottery or is it one entry per person just curious?

The more photos (of different fish) the more chances!

Catch them up

:twisted: OK!!!! I might have a few hundred pictures for ya. 8)

 

[one100grand]

I'm in! Last year was the year I worked on jigs (still no confidence in them), but I will put hard work into catching as many fish as possible on jigs and swimbaits!

On a side note (and in all seriousness) - If I use a jig and put a soft-body swimbait on it, then manage to catch something, can I enter it into both contests? It's unlikely anything like that would work...but I thought I'd ask

 

[Jim]

I'm in! Last year was the year I worked on jigs (still no confidence in them), but I will put hard work into catching as many fish as possible on jigs and swimbaits!

On a side note (and in all seriousness) - If I use a jig and put a soft-body swimbait on it, then manage to catch something, can I enter it into both contests? It's unlikely anything like that would work...but I thought I'd ask

In the swimbait section it would go.

The jig has to have a skirt on it.

 

[one100grand]

I'm in! Last year was the year I worked on jigs (still no confidence in them), but I will put hard work into catching as many fish as possible on jigs and swimbaits!

On a side note (and in all seriousness) - If I use a jig and put a soft-body swimbait on it, then manage to catch something, can I enter it into both contests? It's unlikely anything like that would work...but I thought I'd ask

In the swimbait section it would go.

The jig has to have a skirt on it.

I'm still talking about it having a skirt on it...essentially using a swimbait as a trailer instead of a craw or chunk...like I said, it's super unlikely any fish is stupid or greedy enough to eat it...but if it counted, I might give it a try to see if I could find the dumbest/greediest fish in my area

 

[Popeye]

Not that I fish these methods, but I would have to say that the way you are describing it, it would be a jig caught fish. Like you said, you are only adding the swimbait instead of a trailer thing. You would still be fishing it like a jig. Might go out Sunday for Salmon and I might drag a swimbait on one of my boards. Coho are stupid hungry and not shy about hitting most anything. Who knows, I might get one.

 

[Jim]

I'm in! Last year was the year I worked on jigs (still no confidence in them), but I will put hard work into catching as many fish as possible on jigs and swimbaits!

On a side note (and in all seriousness) - If I use a jig and put a soft-body swimbait on it, then manage to catch something, can I enter it into both contests? It's unlikely anything like that would work...but I thought I'd ask

In the swimbait section it would go.

The jig has to have a skirt on it.

I'm still talking about it having a skirt on it...essentially using a swimbait as a trailer instead of a craw or chunk...like I said, it's super unlikely any fish is stupid or greedy enough to eat it...but if it counted, I might give it a try to see if I could find the dumbest/greediest fish in my area

That is fine then! I would like to see this setup if possible..Im curious.

 

[Captain Ahab]

I'm still talking about it having a skirt on it...essentially using a swimbait as a trailer instead of a craw or chunk...like I said, it's super unlikely any fish is stupid or greedy enough to eat it...but if it counted, I might give it a try to see if I could find the dumbest/greediest fish in my area

That is fine then! I would like to see this setup if possible..Im curious. [/quote]

It is - we troll setups like that for Striped Bass in the Chesapeake each year - call them Mojo rigs


Here are the "jig" heads we use:

Of course these are any where from 12 oz and up to 5 lbs



This is not jigging - it is swimbait fishing

 

[wasilvers]

Here are the "jig" heads we use:

This is not jigging - it is swimbait fishing

Maybe in PA, but in TX, FL and WI (places I've lived) - we call those jigs :LOL2: :LOL2: :LOL2:

But don't trust the WI guys, they call drinking fountains "bubblers" and are adamant that is the proper name for them. #-o

 

[Popeye]

A bubbler is a nekkid Wisconsinite sitting in a bathtub.

 

[huntinfool]

Got two on a jig today, but I am having trouble getting the pics up. Give me some time.

 

[huntinfool]

Well I have the pics on my phone, I emailed them and texted them to myself and......nothing. Guess my network is messed up.

 

[huntinfool]

Finally! Caught this fish on the bed today.

Fish in this local pond are on their 3rd spawn. (Doubt it will be successful, but they think it will)

Caught this one a bit later.

Caught on a Strike King Bitsy bite. Brown and yellow.

Well I have been hitting the local ponds and creeks with a jig. Caught one the other night, but very slow. Then this morning I went back out and caught one at the pond, then went to the creek and caught several. I even caught several back to back. Then I went back tonight and caught a couple more and moved off to another smaller creeka nd caught a couple more. Including one pretty big fish for such a small creek. I was fishing a creek that is about 10 ft. across and three foot deep. I pitched my jig at the edge of some floating weeds and.....Well here are the pics from the other day and this morning, I'll save the best for last.

Here is my ugly mug and one I caught this morning at the pond. (thanks toa jogger for taking my pic!)




Here is what I was catching most of them on. I did catch some on this exact same thing, just in a brown and yellow jig with a natural craw. This is a 1/4oz. strike king bitsy bite. (thanks to Academy for putting them on sale for $.88 and then catching them on the 1/2 price day. So I got them for $.44!!! =D>










Well somehow I screwed up the order of the pics. Then I deleted some pics that were dupes and I think that is what got me. The last two pics were actually the first two, but somehow I posted them twice and when I deleted them, it chose the first two I posted.

Went tonight and caught a couple more. Caught this first one right under the willow tree in the background.





According to the rules I have to post all my pics here. I went again this morning using the same jigs I have been using. A Strike king bitsy bite. I have been changing colors. Black and blue with a craw trailer and a brown with a craw trailer.
First I would like to say Thanks alot Jim! Yes you can take it both ways. Thanks alot for having this contest and making me use a jig. I had never used one and it is forcing me to use something I am not familiar with and making me a better angler. Now for the 2nd way. Thanks alot Jim. Now that you have forced me to start using a jig, I have used all of the jigs I owned. Now I had to go out and buy a bunch more jigs to get througn till labor day. I hope I win this contest, but I am very unlucky. If you put my name in a hat 99 times and someone else's name in it once, you could draw their name 10 times out of 10, and not draw mine once.
So I went again today and caught 7. Plus I found a couple pics on my phone that did not go through the text message, so I just got those.

 

[devilmutt]

These are some of my first fish of the year. All fish pictured were caught on a black and blue Stanley 1/2 oz jig with a black and blue shadow Yum Craw Papi.

 

[fender66]

Great catches devilmutt.

 

[devilmutt]

Thank you sir. None of them were big, but they were worth the trip to Iowa since we can't fish them in MN yet.

 

[bearsphan3.14]

2 during lunch break