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From: fhg@mace.cc.purdue.edu (James F. Blake)
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Subject: Re: JIGS, Jigs, JiGs, jIgS, jigs, ...
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Date: 19 Jan 90 16:22:20 GMT
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From article <2281@kodak.UUCP>, by arkady@kodak.UUCP (Ark Pisarevsky):
] 
] I am beginning to prepare for the coming season and the first 
] activity planned is the walleye trip to Canada. 
] 
] Now, in my book waleyes and jigs go together. I had good luck 
] in the past with Northland Fireball (tm) jigs. Especially their
] lime-green color. But in perusing several old issues of In-Fisherman
] I realized that there are several other popular companies/designs
] (Jig-A-Whopper and Lindy-Little-Joe come to mind right now). 
] 
] Would anybody care to comment on these or other brands/styles. 
] How about different jigging techniques ? Very slow lift-drop,
] kind of like plastic worm, works for me.

    I was in Saskatoon 2 years ago at Woolaston lake lodge.  I had
all sorts of jigs, but the guide I was with gave me some "skin head"
lime-green/metal flake jigs to use (these are the kind that have a
pocket to enclose the metal jig head).  I found these types of jigs to
be ca.  2-3 times more effective than "normal" jigs.  I believe he
purchased his from Bass Pro Shops.  They were of the "Mister Twister"
variety.

My own special "walleye-killer" rig was a 1oz needle weight in front of
a 2 1/2 - 3 foot leader with a 5" black/silver floating Rapala
following.  I would slowly troll this rig, letting it bounce off the
bottom until we found walleyes.

  Jim