Jigging with Fly Fishing Flies?

[crashed87]

Here’s a dumb question, would it make sense to use fly fishing flies to jig? Long story short, Mother in Law gifted me a pack of Umpqua flies for Christmas, however, I do not fly fish.

First thought is they would be way too light, but maybe throw a sinker on it?

I don’t know, otherwise I have no use for these.

[mowbizz]

Flys are designed to “match” a certain bug at a certain time of year. You can certainly try them out but don’t expect miracles. We do use bucktail jigs for lakers and they have a “buggy” look to them. Float one down the hole and twitch it…🤣

[stripernut]

They can work very well, I often use flies that I have tied with a couple of tungsten beads to get some weight. You can use them as a "Dropper", above or below a jig, from pan fish to trout you will find they work well.

[bootstrap]

a perch will hit anything that resembles food

[Dirt23]

Yes they will there is more bug larvae in the water in winter than summer and is easy calories for sluggish fish to slurp. If you need some weight get small gauge unleaded solder and wrap it to where fly will balances horizontal.  Get to jigging or suspend under ice in shallows near some weeds tipped with spike or 2 for shallow water trout. Remember get the horizontal hang right if suspending important looks natural

[BHardy]

It works 

I even made a little bamboo jig pole to match!

[Steamtrain]

Fantastic rod and reel setup!
Nice Brookie

[jigmaster5]

Here’s a dumb question, would it make sense to use fly fishing flies to jig? Long story short, Mother in Law gifted me a pack of Umpqua flies for Christmas, however, I do not fly fish.

First thought is they would be way too light, but maybe throw a sinker on it?

I don’t know, otherwise I have no use for these.

You can fish them behind a water bobber (google it) either on the surface, mid-column or near the bottom on a super slow retrieve....esp. those wooly buggers.  Only trick is that it can be difficult to cast w/ a long leader.

Or you can take something like a kastmaster, take the treble off & put a light leader to the fly behind the spoon.

For icefishing, you can rig them up like a drop shot (google it, if not familiar) or above a spoon or jig.

Also, check regs just to make sure that there are no surprises.

Good luck!   

[lowaccord66]

Couple of those are dry flies, would suck behind a water bobber.  Useless as droppers too really.  Id re-gift those. 

[madtrappa]

Spent some time out in Colorado. No live bait above 7k elevation. So everyone dead sticks flys on jaw jackers near their jig holes and it works well there in that ecosystem. Not sure if that flys work as well in a place where smelt is an abundant food source. Worth a shot though.

[Splattypus]

I have a couple small bead head nymphs, harassers, worms and wooly boogers in my box just in case. Hungry fish will easy anything that looks like food. Best chance at success is going to be matching the insect life active in the body of water at that time of the season, but definitely can work. Like others have pointed out, you may have to adjust the weight with tiny split shot, or your knot to get the presentation right.

[Dipstick]

Some of my favorite ice jigs have some hackle tied to them. Who doesn't like a little tail??!?!

[Digs]

It works 

I even made a little bamboo jig pole to match!


That's a pretty awesome rod

[johnnh]

I use various flies on drop shot rigs. This has been very productive on yellow perch

[missoulafish]

bead head leech patterns tied on a jig hook are deadly.

[Uppervalley Kid]

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[Aknightz]

I'll fish black and olive marabou sculpin head flies jigging for crappies and trout. I also really enjoy jigging a copper john or prince nymph in a size 10 or 12 with a mealworm off the back. Absolutely slays panfish, bass, trout, perch, and pickerel. First outing with a nymph and trailer I was blown away at the amount of action it got.

[fishermantim]

Drop shot rig and use wet flies / nymphs as they won't be likely to float after you drop them down.

Wet flies, streamers and nymphs will work.

The problem would be the size of the fly, but bigger fish would hit bigger flies, but all size of fish will hit the small ones.