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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Ice Fishing Live Baits and Plastics => Topic started by: Rob_G. on Jan 17, 2016, 11:56 PM
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I would like to obtain some very small jigs, like size 16 or even smaller. Best would be in natural colors and red in a design like a fly fishermans trout fly. Just a tiny head with a tiny tiny bit of feather or hair to dress the hook. Any ideas? I do not believe there are any flyfishing shops near me and I hate to order something before I can see it in person to verify the size.
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there is a lot of guys out here that tie there own shoot them a private message if any thing or ask if there willing to sell a few? or look at post like these and make your own thread #33 in this post is a good description on how to make ice jigs...easily and many more like this one on here ...
http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=62425.0
also try fishusa.com there great I have also bought stuff from hookhack.com and bmfs.net and cabelas.com but that all up to you... I think some thing like a 2457 tmc or tiemco with fine lead wire like .010 or .015 for those hook
lead
http://www.fishusa.com/product/Round-Lead-Wire
here is the hooks tmc 2457 model number :
http://www.fishusa.com/product/Tiemco-2457-CaddisScud-Hooks
if you want to tie on some feather or other stuff get a bobbin and some black 8/0 thread for that feathers
they show how to paint the lead wire in the thread linked above they use male polish lol's I mean nail polish lol's...
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My goodness a size 16 is tiny. The smallest I ever use is a 1/80 oz in #8. I missed so many fish that I went up to #6. Don't miss many bites with the larger hook.
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Have you checked the Fiska 2.5mm? It's tiny.
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Have you checked the Fiska 2.5mm? It's tiny.
Frightening thing is that #20 sized hook on 1# line (or lighter) is all you get a bite on at times, and take some very nice fish. Basic start for 'Gills in my area is a 3mm/#16 hook when they aren't in the suicidal dawn/dusk flurry where most anything goes
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I use 3mm a lot, with one spike. Thats a #16 hook on most brands. Crappies will slip it, hungry gills will swallow it, so be careful on both accounts. Fiska makes a 2.5mm with a #20 hook i believe.
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Look for a Hali Timantti jig
so small it can catch a minnow for you
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"Go big AND go home" (empty) is what happens if I don't (sometimes) downsize. I start at a #10 and will go down to #16 until I get the bite. If they are sharp , even the little jigs/flies will hold a fish. And no more than 3# test line....fluoro as my main line (jigs) and mono for dropper lines (flies)...works for me.
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i've made some jigs on size 18 hooks. just wrapped a couple turns of lead wire around the hook and then painted it with nail polish.