The Guide To Fishing Jigs

Fishing jigs are fishing hooks with a metal weight permanently attached to the hook. The fishing jigs' sink rate and casting ability are determined by how heavy a weight is attached to the hook. Fishing jigs commonly have attached rubber skirts made to enhance their action and look more natural.

FLIPPING & PITCHING JIGS

Flipping and Pitching jigs are used by bass anglers to make precise casts to fishing targets that they think a bass may be swimming near. Instead of a long bombing cast, anglers use short underhand flips and pitches to get their baits to their targets a short distance away. Flipping jigs are built with a narrow head design for slipping and sliding out of cover. They also have a skirted jig and protective ‘weed guard’, which are small nylon bristles attached to the jig. This helps prevent anglers from getting their lure snagged during their casts.

FOOTBALL JIGS

Football jigs are built with a mold that leaves their jigheads with a football-shaped jighead. The football shape helps the jigs wobble and wiggle between rocks and snags when anglers fish near the bottom. Football jigs are usually used in deeper water with rocks or structure on the bottom.

CASTING JIGS

Casting Jigs are used by bass anglers when they need to make long casts in order to find and catch bass. Casting jigs are built with a versatile molded head design that lets anglers use them in a variety of scenarios.

BLADED JIGS

Bladed jigs, also known as a "vibrating jig" or a "Chatterbait", feature a distinctive design consisting of a single blade directly fused to the head using a split-ring attachment. Unlike the adjacent blades of a spinnerbait, this single hexagonal blade creates a unique action. When retrieved, the blade on a Chatterbait produces a rapid and consistent churn, generating a humming vibration beneath the water's surface, in contrast to the pronounced thumping sound of a spinnerbait.