Winter Smallmouth

[Gavin]

A hair jig will work year round. Just gotta put it where the fish are.  Always have a few in my kit. Really come in handy on single hook, no plastic regulation water. Catch quite a few smallmouth and brown trout on bass sized hair jigs. Rainbows like smaller stuff mostly.

[Norm M]

in warmer weather I liked a sparsely tied hair jig tipped with ripple rind to swim just above the bottom . since the guy that used to tie them for me passed on I have not done it. I tend to use swim baits in that role now .

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Norm M said:

in warmer weather I liked a sparsely tied hair jig tipped with ripple rind to swim just above the bottom . since the guy that used to tie them for me passed on I have not done it. I tend to use swim baits in that role now .

Solid advice Norm!

[Smallieguy87]

So when you guys are using hair jigs in the summer are you using different hair? I've thought about making my own sometime so i figured id ask.

[Mitch f]

If you really want to get technical about it, consider what you're trying to imitate. I'm a believer in different types of hair, or feathers, in the same jig. If you consider a craw, some parts move and some don't. So use Bucktail for the non movable parts, and marabou, rabbit, fox for the moveable parts. I always go sparser rather than fuller on all my hair jigs.

Believe it or not, most of the time I just get lazy and tie arctic fox only.

 

[Smallieguy87]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

If you really want to get technical about it, consider what you're trying to imitate. I'm a believer in different types of hair, or feathers, in the same jig. If you consider a craw, some parts move and some don't. So use Bucktail for the non movable parts, and marabou, rabbit, fox for the moveable parts. I always go sparser rather than fuller on all my hair jigs.

Believe it or not, most of the time I just get lazy and tie arctic fox only.

 

Very informative! Thanks a bunch Mitch.