Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

Just wondering about how to trim a hair jigs?  I got some to try on Hardy Pond for the great smallmouths and they seem pretty big.There only 1\'4 ounce but I'm wondering if you trim them the same way you trim a regular jig?

I make my own aspirin-head bucktail jigs. I have some trimmed with a slight flair behind the hook a half inch or so that I use with small pork (fake or real - mostly 101s and split tail eels), and then I have some that I have longer tapered 'tails' of hair more like a leech, worm or minnow.

I try to let the fish tell me which one they like better, although I usually start with whatever 'my gut' seems to be telling when I use them. Which I also either use my gut to decide when to throw them, or I throw them on some places where I have a lot of confidence because of past success (the West side of the state is where I've done best with mine).

 hey nitro, have you seen jensen jigs? he make only hair jigs and also make some with rabbit hair. contact him at www.angelfire.com/biz2/jifhead/frame.html  he makes some awesome jigs..karol

I get an error message when I key that link??

Check out tourneyjigs.com as well.  Carl makes some of the best hair jigs on the planet.  His jigs have been featured in Bassmaster magazine numerous times.  He makes them from bear hair and deer hair.  I really like the bear hair jigs.  They look so natural in the water.  Smallies love em.  I have caught some biggy largemouth on them, too.

Click the link under my post to go there directly.

I like to trim the outside hair pretty short and then flare it out with a pick.  I leave the hair underneath longer, but i will trim it down a touch.  Once you trim the outside short and leave the underside long, you wind up with a hair jig that looks just like a crawpopper in the water.  I like to use very small chunks with hair jigs.  Best i have found so far are from a company called conquistador tackle.  They have some real tiny craw trailers in some great colors.  And they are hand poured so they are super soft.

I will see if i can find my camera and post a pic of one of my hair jigs i have trimmed so you can better understand what i am talking about.

McCarter himself :-\'