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Man it's been a numbers game this spring! I got a call from Yakima pro Guide David Childs a.k.a "Yakfish" because he wanted to get in on some of my recent hot panfish action on the I 82 ponds. So I met him at Pond #4, the one with the dock and we launched his 8 foot Pram, then headed for Pond 5. I was confident that we would find some Panfish, but man...Three hours later we had boated over 80 bluegill, (albeit the over all size was small), 3 perch, 2 crappie, 2 sunfish and believe it or not-two Identifiable land locked chinook salmon about 11" apiece! The hot lure by far was my "Gillus Nymph" a micro Nymph plastic tail designed specifically for bluegill. We tipped our 1/64th oz jigs with a tidbit piece of crawler or berkley power wiggler and fished them below tiny fly fishing floats. Again the lunar table guide called the bite time perfectly! I don't know how many times David and I had double header hookups, but it was a bunch! We found nearly all of our fish around the two beaver hut's woody cover on Pond 5. Another interesting tidbit. I caught no less than 7 different species on my jigs, as I landed 3 largemouth on the dock and a nice 13" rainbow trout on a Smoke colored Stone Dragun jig tossed behing the boat in pond 4 while on the way back to the dock! The Stone Dragun lure is designed for salmon/steelhead but it has taken everyting that swims so far this spring! (I'm still looking for lure field testers...so let me know if ur interested)Jiggy

jbball50

4/19/2012 8:07:00 PM

Are you sending these out in the mail too Jiggy? I'm going to be going back to the westside next weekend and fish Silver Lake Friday for some crappie/bluegill, then Saturday at one of my crappie spots probably once that lake opens that day if the trout aren't so thick on opening day. Could use them and see how I do with them :). If anything I could try to pick them up from you sometime.

Fish-Freak23

4/20/2012 7:31:00 AM

I'm definitely down to give any of your jigs a shot! Seein as how many fish you catch! Are you goin to market them in any stores?

fishinChristian

4/20/2012 8:28:00 AM

It's mail-order time Jiggy!

Oregon bass like your Stone Dragun, too!

fishinChristian

4/20/2012 11:12:00 AM

By the way, he's selling them, but I am guessing he doesn't want to sully the reporting area. They work and you get a good value, so I suggest, my shoestring budget friend, you put the info on the for sale section of this website. Just caught 2 bass 3.2 and 4 lbs from a little slough near Salem, OR. He also recycles plastic lures, so if you have those bags of fisherman catching non fishcatching lures...

Jiggy: refute anything I got wrong, 'cause I'm opening a can of (plastic) worms, and being out of town, I WROTE THIS WITHOUT TALKING TO YOU FIRST, but I would want to get in on this if I didn't have some already. Your lures are good, and they fool fish who have seen all the standard stuff. A lot of why I catch big fish is I do stuff others don't. Years ago people though I was nuts for "doodlesocking" which is now the standard flippin.' New lures or techniques work because they are fresh and non-threatening. By the way, people no longer think I'm nuts for flippin'. They just think I'm nuts!

backwater

4/21/2012 7:21:00 AM

My son and I would like to field test them
Thanl you
Mark

cinatikid

4/21/2012 5:51:00 PM

i love to try out your jigs heading to the powder river in june her es my email andy.sherryl4743@yahoo.com hope to here from u

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