lead heads

[cst]

Everything matters at one point or another. Color, eyes, weight, size of the head, material of the head, hook size, hook length, hook gauge, hook's gap, etc.

I would take a unpainted jighead with eyes before I take a painted jighead without eyes. The eyes trigger more strikes than the color. Also, eyeless jigheads are usually of a poorer quality, although this is just a coincidental reason and not why I chose eyes before paint.

There could be days where the head color might trigger more bites but it seems rare and I don't really worry about it too much.

Other than that, make sure you're getting a good hook. It doesn't have to be too long and it should have some gap between the top of the bait and the point of the hook. Too big or too small of a jighead will screw with your swimbaits swimming action.

I usually choose the Big Hammer Jigheads. Just be careful with the 3/16 and 1/4 oz heads because the hooks are really easy to bend out

[cst]

Everything matters at one point or another. Color, eyes, weight, size of the head, material of the head, hook size, hook length, hook gauge, hook's gap, etc.

I would take a unpainted jighead with eyes before I take a painted jighead without eyes. The eyes trigger more strikes than the color. Also, eyeless jigheads are usually of a poorer quality, although this is just a coincidental reason and not why I chose eyes before paint.

There could be days where the head color might trigger more bites but it seems rare and I don't really worry about it too much.

Other than that, make sure you're getting a good hook. It doesn't have to be too long and it should have some gap between the top of the bait and the point of the hook. Too big or too small of a jighead will screw with your swimbaits swimming action.

I usually choose the Big Hammer Jigheads. Just be careful with the 3/16 and 1/4 oz heads because the hooks are really easy to bend out

[NulodPBall]

Hmmm...I'll have to learn this jig-head color thing, although eyes are logical.

My leadhead color tends to be whatever I have in my posession, and that tends to be plain, or yellow with red eyes...I have caught most of my halibut on plain leadheads. Calicos and Newport Bay Spotted Bass on whatever, but that's more because the yellow leadheads are in the smaller range in my box.

I do agree that the hooks need to be supersharp...for the NBSB especially, I generally have to remember to set the hook hard to prevent the long distance catch-and-release syndrome.

If I want to cheat a little, I'll throw a small strip of squid on (for taste).

At times, especially if you're on a cattleboat and if you're fishing structure, like an oil rig, you have to be aggressive at the rail because the fish can be extremely location specific and I'm not always into that...one time, you basically had to bounce the jig off the oil rig metal, or underneath the struts to get bit consistently and they wanted the skinnier bodied plastics...when I lost my yellow jighead, I threw on a plain leadhead can landed the same amount of fish but I will admit that they were in a feeding frenzy but they were keying in on what my friend and I were using and we were getting bit far more than the other people.

Just my observations

[Badfish2]

I guess it depends on where you're fishing... What works awesome at one lake, sucks at another lake and the other way around

[NulodPBall]

Originally Posted by Badfish2

I guess it depends on where you're fishing... What works awesome at one lake, sucks at another lake and the other way around

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Lake?
Oh, yeah...lake

[Badfish2]

Streams too! =)