Originally Posted by
Speckalator
I fish a lot of jigs, both crappie and smallmouth, and prefer a jig without a barb and the softest plastic baits. Glue is your friend. But I've seen the vid by Richard Gene about making weed guards. If you have time this will work fine. I try to use a single wire weed guard on any jig fishing when the need arises. If I have time to make up jigs I'll be fishing.
Cheap unpainted ball head jigs for me for crappie. A good hook file comes in handy too even with a weed guard.