Such A Simple Jig. Lure With Bait

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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Fishing with a jig (and not only in winter, but also in summer) has recently become more and more popular. Of course, in any store of fishing supplies there are a lot of jigs of all kinds. As they say, just choose!

However, their manufacturers, even if they wish, cannot take into account all the subtleties of each reservoir, and the habits, predilections of fish in it. This can be done much more successfully by an angler who knows a particular body of water well and knows how to make the most suitable catching jig for fishing in it. Many anglers do just that, inventing jigs of all shapes and sizes that can seduce almost any fish. However, for successful fishing it is not enough to have a set of jigs, you still need to be able to equip them and use them correctly.

I will try to give readers only a few general advice, gleaned mainly from practice.

1. You can be with the catch all winter if you go fishing for roach. It bites better at the beginning of the freeze-up and especially well in the second half of winter, when it rushes to the mouths of rivers and streams flowing into the reservoir. It can only be caught with a jig, but the result will be much better if you add traditional baits to it: a worm, bloodworms, burdock moth, caddis flies, maggot. Roach inhabits in winter near water thickets, near snags, in deep depressions. In rivers, she prefers not too fast flow. But, perhaps, the most successful roach angling is with bait. For this purpose, small bloodworms, various cereals and cakes, and crumb crumbs are used. The roach takes it very carefully, so the tackle is adjusted so that the nod marks even the slightest touch of the fish to the bait. The jig is used in the smallest size on the thinnest line.

2. Winter fishing for perch is often very successful. The striped predator bites especially well on the first and last ice. Much worse, he takes in the "wilderness", sometimes completely rejecting the most delicious bait. However, such apathy of the perch can be overcome if you know its camps and skillfully use the tackle and jig. The tackle should be adjusted so that it is sensitive to the touch of the fish to the bait. They look for perch on sandy slopes in depth, on seamounts remote from the coast, in rocky and snagged places, at the edge of aquatic plants. The predator usually prefers calm waters in the coastal strip. With the deterioration of the oxygen regime, it goes to the depth. In the midst of winter, the perch does not show even half of its characteristic agility, so the line is suitable for the minimum thickness: 0.1-0.12 millimeters, a jig of the corresponding weight is taken,able to stretch the line in a straight line. The color of the jig is preferable dark, and she herself is in the form of a drop. The bait is also not the last condition for successful fishing. A bunch of ruby bloodworms, which not long ago provoked perches, can now push them away. Small bloodworms together with burdock moths attract fish better. Large perch does not neglect this attachment either. The game of the jig in the "wilderness" is not very agile. Usually it is stirred at the bottom, imitating an insect digging in the ground, and at times it is slowly lifted up in fractions of a centimeter. But sometimes it makes sense to lift the jig with trembling, jumps, smooth pulling, using also different speeds of the jig. Sometimes they do this: first, they tie a large jig, then a small one below. When lifting, it seems to be trying to catch up with a large one and often causes the grip of a humpback.

3. The simplest jig can be made while fishing … A piece of red, black or white wire insulation (cambric) is put on the hook, previously tied to the fishing line. Approximately in the middle of the segment, pierce a hole with a needle through which the fishing line is threaded. Then the cut pellet is clamped near the insulation. The hook takes a horizontal position.

4. It is customary to make a jig so that its main mass is located in the upper part. However, you can try to do the opposite - shift the weight towards the hook. And the more vertical the jig, the better. The hook of such a jig is directed upwards with a sting (see Fig. 1). Sinking into the depths, this jig smoothly goes to the side, and when working with a fishing rod, it not only rises in jumps, but also shifts horizontally, thereby attracting fish.

5. Feathers, hairs, colored threads are used to equip not only hooks in the manufacture of flies, but also jigs. This is done like this: you need to take a pear-shaped jig, and tie a few simple knots of colored woolen thread on the hook's forend to make a tousled bunch. When attaching the jig to the fishing line, press the bundle of threads to the body of the jig. It remains only to trim the ends of the threads with scissors, leaving them about 4 millimeters long and dipping the bundle into waterproof glue. With these antennae, the mormyshka looks more like a natural insect, and therefore the fish takes it more willingly.

6. Sometimes for successful catching it is necessary to change the nature of the jig's oscillations, at the same time not changing the rate of its movement transmitted by the hand. This can be achieved using a jig with a regulator (see Fig. 2). A pellet is attached to the forend of the hook: it moves along it and is locked in the right place with a piece of cambric or rubber. In the dead of winter, when the fish is sluggish and inactive, the pellet is stopped by pressing it against the jig: the oscillation frequency will be greater, and the swing will decrease. At the beginning and end of freeze-up, when the fish is more mobile, the pellet is moved to the bend of the hook, and the vibration amplitude increases, which contributes to a better bite. 7. Knots for memory:

• Before tying the jig, carefully check the hole in it. A sharp edge, an imperceptible burr can often cause the line to break when you hook a weighty fish;
• to return the darkened tin or lead jig to its original appearance, it is necessary to iron it with a thick needle;
• in order not to accidentally blunt the jig hook before fishing, put a piece of a tube from a radio wire on its sting;
• many anglers store jigs in strips of foam rubber, felt or felt, forgetting that hooks in these materials quickly rust. It is much safer to store them in a cork that does not absorb moisture. Circles are cut out of the cork and a stock of jigs is fixed in them.