What’s The Jig?

If you missed this article in Trout Bitten, Ken Nichols has provided it here to review the power of the jig hook… wait, what, you mean there’s really no difference?

https://troutbitten.com/2020/03/15/nymph-hook-inversion-and-the-myth-of-the-jig-hook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nymph-hook-inversion-and-the-myth-of-the-jig-hook&utm_term=2020-03-16

Probably like many of you I started noticing this huge move to jig hooks a few years ago and when I see jig hook I think crappie, brim, sunfish, bluegill, whatever you call those little suckers… perch? In Texas we just called them brim. In Texas we also call crappie, croppie, LOL!!!

This article provides a good breakdown of how the jig hook performs relative to say a nymph, curved, scud, midge, pupa style hook.  I know more and more guides, and really competition guys, use the jig hooks to achieve a greater hook-up. Makes sense to me and I’m no professional so I’ll roll with that theory. And as a fly tier, I too tie some bugs with jig hooks like my leach patterns.  But then I also tie some of my nymphs on dry fly hooks to try and achieve a better hook-up.

Regardless, this is a great article and again I always come back to a very simple theory… your confidence flies, however you buy or tie them, will achieve the success you set for yourself as you approach the stream.

Enjoy!