Jig head weight in grams

[Jiggin_Joe]

I bought 64 oz heads from 3 different sources and all are different in size and weight

Joe

[flatfish46]

Reaper I could show you something I built,but it's proably been outlawed in every state for crappie fishing except Alaska and Texas !!!!!!!
cause you got to have big water to use it that way you don't convert all the fish !

[Saline Lake Jigs]

reaper why not just take a 4 stroke boat motor and run it on water? you can take a and use the electrolysis process and convert water and baking soda (the catalyst) and convert it into hydrogen which in return can be used to power you boat motor and then can be used to power the minner pump. to keep it green the exhaust of this system is a super steam since there is no carbon in the molecular compound of water you don't have the build up inside the engine. burns much cleaner. hmmm why have i not built this.

[robbor]

I have weighed a bunch of jigs one my reloading electronic scale. I weighed them in grains which is the smallest weight unit measurement as far as i know. Most of my jigs came in very close to theoretical stated measurements. Most came in just under which i preferred for delicate float fishing.
You have to watch your measurements as some gram scales are not super accurate to very small units. And as a note for most scales in general they are more accurate as you get toward the high end of their range.

[wardsmit]

I have been told by someone in the business for over 30 years that the sizes 1/16, 1/32 etc are just to let you know the approx size and not actual weight. There are too many variables to make them consistent. Hooks sizes wire or heavy duty, collar or no collar, soft lead or hard lead. They said the original sizes were 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc....and there was confusion as to what size they really were and complicated even more when some wanted a much larger jig or a much smaller.... and all in between. So somewhere in time they switched to the fraction sizing. Although the fraction sizing does not actually weigh the exact wt, it is fairly close. But, the 1/32 size jig is going to be that size head pretty much across the board. I have been trying to research this in my spare time, and would love to find something credible in print for the jig history.

[Uncle Grump]

I have a Escali Liberta series scale, model PR50. It will weigh grams, oz, pennyweight, and troy oz. It max capacity is 50gr / 1.75oz. It comes w/ a 50gr calibration weight.

For giggles, I just weighed 4 1/32 'oz' jigs, 2 I poured (Do-it mold), 2 purchased from Cabelas (differant packages), all collarless.

Poured jig 1 w/ #8 hook

.77 gr
.028 oz

Poured jig 2 w/ #6 hook

.69 gr
.024 oz

Those numbers are not reversed - the jig w/ the larger hook weighed less....

Cabelas #1 w/ a #6 hook

.84 gr
.030 oz

Cabelas #2 w/ a #6 hook

.90 gr
.032 oz

My calculator tells me a 1/32 oz jig should be .03125 oz.

W/ regard to the jigs I cast, I know that one of them was cast using wheel weight lead, and the other was from lead I suspect was from wheel weights.

I just ordered 3 pkgs of 1/32 oz jigs from Cabelas (it's to cold outside to cast any more), was told on the phone "the jig heads are running larger due to a change in casting material" - Cabela's must have gone "green" - will be interesting to compare those head sizes and weights when they arrive.

UG

[brimreaper]

Originally Posted by Saline Lake Jigs

reaper why not just take a 4 stroke boat motor and run it on water? you can take a and use the electrolysis process and convert water and baking soda (the catalyst) and convert it into hydrogen which in return can be used to power you boat motor and then can be used to power the minner pump. to keep it green the exhaust of this system is a super steam since there is no carbon in the molecular compound of water you don't have the build up inside the engine. burns much cleaner. hmmm why have i not built this.

The main reason I don't try to do stuff like that is because things have a tendency to go BOOM!!!!!!! when I speriment...sorry for wrecking this thread...I'll hush now

[Saline Lake Jigs]

oh yeah sorry for blowing up the post i have a bad habit of that.