Are heavy jigs overrated? Sometimes the fish certainly say so!
It seems the trend is that tungsten ice jigs are getting heavier and heavier each year. Don’t get me wrong, I love the advantages. Faster fall-rate gets you down to the fired-up school of crappie faster. A tighter line off the rod tip allows you to detect strikes with more accuracy. And just the overall profile and presence of a larger jig catches the eye of the bigger fish, typically. But, in certain fishing scenarios, all these benefits can be thrown out of the window when the fish care about one thing, and one thing only. Cadence.
The cadence and rhythm of the jigging motion is often overlooked. But those anglers that tune into it and cater to what the fish want on a specific day, reap the rewards! Some days the fish want very little motion with sporadic ticks. Other days they want lots of motion, nonstop. But your jigging cadence can be affected by the actual weight of the jig itself! Think of a piece of paper and a lead weight connected to a string. Where the lead weight keeps the string taut and reacts quickly to movement, the paper flutters and falls behind. As far as I know, most of the forage floating around in the water is relatively weightless. That is exactly the reason I designed the Last Resort jig.
Tied with a small (by modern standards) 3mm tungsten bead, the Last Resort jig seems to flutter and glide with each twitch of the rod tip. You seemingly cannot fish it wrong! Is it sometimes a pain to fish in 20+ feet of water? Absolutely. But with a little patience, the longer fall-rate is worth it when you are putting fish on ice and your buddies aren’t! The light action, and natural pheasant fibers that make up the body seem to work when nothing else will, that’s the reason for the name. Order some today and see what I mean, you won’t regret it!
-Aaron
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