Buck Tail / Hair Jigs

[Dutch]

I use them quite often and make my own but none are 4-6" long as I can't find bucktail that long.

[Quillback]

Here's a link to a BBC thread about hair jigs:

http://www.bbcboards.net/bbc-lounge/499478-hair-jigs-anybody-make-deep-water-one.html

[Feathers and Fins]

Think Striper Jigs, most stores sell them with the striper gear. I have never stopped using them for bass, striper and walleye but in Bass fishing it seems to go in cycles to who used what to win the last tournament. People see it on tv or read about it and have to have the new "in" thing. Hair jigs have been around long before I was born for a reason, they work!

If you understand when to use them they are very productive year round, Early spring through late summer 2 to 4 inch mimics the forage of small shad and fish fry if your swimming it or crawling on the bottom it looks like chubs and craws. From late summer to late winter 4 to 8 inch baits mimic the larger shad.

[Old plug]

I just like the slower sink rate you can get from a buck tail jig that is tied with the right amount of hair.

[inshore]

I bought some from northlands tackle this winter. plan to use them on drop shot rigs. thought I would try them as the weight below the drop shot. my thinking it gives the fish two targets. I've not used them yet staying off tr till the idiots leave after labor day. will post if they work.

[dtrs5kprs]

DC...two basic types work. A bigger white, white/gray, white/blue, or other shad color. Like a jig for whites or stripers. About 1/4oz to 1oz, with a beefy hook. A white trailer can be a plus, like a white spinnerbait tail. Other one is the old "fly and rind", 1/8oz to 1/4oz, thin fiber or soft wire guard, sharp hook in the 1-2/0 range. Simple colors...black, brown, maybe an olive. Can add a little red, purple, orange to the same base colors.

Used to buy some of the small ones at Bull Shoals Boat Dock that were as close to perfect as you could get. Caught a lot of brown fish at night with them. That was with the old U2 twin tail pork. Way easier to buy them than it is to tie them.

[Pepe]

Thanks QB. Interesting thread.

[Ham]

I think that the 4-6 inch preacher jigs excel for certain situations. Lakes with current sweeping across ledges triggering a bite would be a situation that those jigs would be the go to lure. I'm sure they work here, but lots of stuff works here.

[Mitch f]

One of my favorite Striper jigs is a 1/2 oz tied with Puglisi fibers. There are a little translucent which works well for the highland type lakes.

You can also make it 6" long if you want because its synthetic material and no natural hairs will grow that long.

[Lancer09]

One of my favorite Striper jigs is a 1/2 oz tied with Puglisi fibers. There are a little translucent which works well for the highland type lakes.

You can also make it 6" long if you want because its synthetic material and no natural hairs will grow that long.

Yak hair will get that long and carries some of that translucence. The problem with those synthetics is they are so limp in the water you don't always get movement out the the material.

A good bucktail can give you some crazy long hair. Try reverse tying some in on a jig head and you'll get a big profile that will just pulse like crazy in the water.