Micro Jigs

[ZigJigman]

A few months ago I remember someone talking about fishing micro jigs. Here are pics of one  of my Zig Jig customers, James Carver, with a toad of a brown trout. He caught it on the San Juan River in New Mexico on one of my 1/64 oz  olive Zig Jig micro jigs. The fished was tape measured at 32” long and it weighed 22 lbs on his Boga scale. 

He sent me the picture today when he ordered some more jigs.

[Seth]

GIANT! Did they say if they were sight fishing or did they just blindly hook in to it?

[ZigJigman]

He didn’t say but I’m pretty sure he was not using a strike indicator. Tight lining a double micro rig. 1/64 at bottom and 1/124 above it.

[JestersHK]

Dang thats a beast!  Beautiful specimen as well.  You bringing any of these to jigfest?  I'm getting light in my light jig stockings LOL.

[Foghorn]

State Record?

[Seth]

1 hour ago, Foghorn said:

State Record?

Everything I've looked up shows the current New Mexico state record is 20lbs 4oz. This one would have surely beat it.

[ZigJigman]

I’ll bring some jigs and some micros too. Anybody that knows what they want, please let me know ahead of time and I’ll have them pulled and ready to go.

[ZigJigman]

I just text him and he said that it was a state record but he caught in in a Catch and Release area, plus he didn’t want to kill the fish, so turned it loose to swim another day!!

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4 hours ago, ZigJigman said:

I just text him and he said that it was a state record but he caught in in a Catch and Release area, plus he didn’t want to kill the fish, so turned it loose to swim another day!!

That’s cool!!!   Is there any way he could have gotten it checked out since it was in the CnR section?  

[ZigJigman]

I’m not sure. I know in Arkansas they have to be weighed in certified scales and someone with game and fish has to be there to certify the weight. Normally those scales are in grocery stores or similar.