WobbleHead Jigs

Richo · #1 19-12-2002, 02:57 AM

Had MadPhil show me some WobbleHead Jigs

in 1/16 n 1/32 - about 6 for 6bucks or so, I think thats what the were, and chemically sharpened as well, has anyone else come across these before??. What sort of action does it give the softie.???.. they look OK but until Ive had some feedback, i`ll stick with what I have.

Cheers

Richo

Bassifier · #2 19-12-2002, 10:05 AM

If they are the TT ones, or as a matter of fact any spoon shaped jig, stay away!!!

Wobble heads have a bad tendancy to spin in the air and therefore twist your fireline to DohDohDohDoh.
I have tried a few different types and all created really bad twist to the point of having to scrap a pretty newly filled spool of fireline.

Richo · #3 19-12-2002, 07:34 PM

Cheers for that, I knew getting some feedback before looking at them again was worthwhile

Cheers

Richo

Bassifier · #4 20-12-2002, 07:46 AM

I would love to show you what they do to a spool of fireline!

I really wanted them to work because I can get them in sizes up to 5/0 for flatties etc, but alas no...

ChrisN · #5 09-01-2003, 12:01 AM

Would a small swivel work to stop the line twist as I have also seen the TT ones and they are fairly cheap.
TT also make soft plastics. They are the exact same shape as Bassmaster grubs but come in a whole different range of colours. I saw these at a local tackle shop.

Matt Fraser · #6 13-01-2003, 10:24 AM

I just spoke to Gareth from Tackle Tactics(TT) today reference this posts. He said he hasn't heard of the problem of the wobble heads spinning on the cast before and hasn't experienced any of the problems that bassifier mentioned. He sells thousands of these jigheads in several different sizes, so they must be fairly popular.

Matt

Bassifier · #7 17-01-2003, 07:23 AM

Well, Of course I am just nobody so I guess its best taken from the maker huh? Im sure he would say that there are no such problems..

As for TT's plastics, I love these things, Ive been buying 100 packs for ages now.
I must have gone through over 2000 tails in 12 months.
And If you look again you will see a lot of difference between Bassmasters tails and TT's.
My most used bream grub ever.
Strangely enough Breammasters own singletail 2 inch plastics are almost Identical to TT's yet lack some of the Gun colours that TT produce/distribute.

Matt Fraser · #8 20-01-2003, 07:54 AM

Didn't mean to sound like I was bagging you Richard! From your other posts, you obviously put a bit of time in on the water and have learnt from experience.

Was there a particular size that spun more than others or the whole lot?

Matt

Apparently the big 5/0s have been very popular in some areas of NSW for flathead. But I dont know if they are casting and retrieving or jigging on the drift.

Bassifier · #9 20-01-2003, 08:11 AM

No Matt, maybe I sounded a bit terse and conceited there. Sorry.
I have used 16th through to 1/4 and 3/8th 5/0/s and most of the probs stem from the repeated distance casting and whipping of the big jigs.
I have had probs with the small jigs also but to a lesser extent due to shorter cast distances when pontooning etc..
These jigs are susposed to flutter/slow on the fall but frankly they do very little to give any real benefit.
Most of the work should be done by the tail in my opinion, I gues if you have tails which are notoriously inflexable, then go with a wobble head, otherwise Id just stick with regular heads.

I do a hell of a lot of big flattie flippin and big jigs are the go, I am always on the search for top jigs and so far the best for this job have to be Owner Erie jigs.
check out the other post about owner I put up and look at the finnesse jig, very nice!

LakeConjolaFish · #10 20-01-2003, 08:27 AM

Bassifier,

Why did you have to scrap a fairly new spool of Fireline because of line twist, couldn't you have just let it untwist?