jighead and hook size for casting around deep water wood

[PickwickDam]

On my next trip, I plan to cast some 6# line with BGBS into 15-25 ft water around deep brush or wood. What head weight and hook size do you use in similar situations?

[CrappiePappy]

Personally, I use weedless 1/16oz jigs with #2 Aberdeen hooks .... regardless of depth or type of cover ... when single jig casting.

[Grainraiser]

You stated the depth of water but not the depth you expect to find fish. In general the deeper you fish the larger jig head you use. At that water depth and using 6lb line I would be using a 1/6 or 1/8 jig head.

[Alphahawk]

I use a 1.5 gram jig head with a #10 hook fishing in 22-25 feet of water. I lose a few but the small hook helps. To get the light jig down that deep I use Varivas ES2 Ester line in 2.3# test. The polyester line sinks.

Regards


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[Les Young]

Depending on how much patience you have, wind etc. but anywhere from a 1/32 to a 1/8 oz. head. I just throw what i find at walmart, tackle shops or buy off of ebay.

[Ketchn]

After 15 or so deep , as much as I don’t care for them 1/8 performance is likely the ticket unless it’s dead calm.
1/16 is more to my liking, but in water depths that might be 20 or more it gets a “bit” lost at times .

[slabeye]

Just put a split shot about 1 or 2 foot above the jig head and use the same size jig head you normally use.

[Alphahawk]

Just put a split shot about 1 or 2 foot above the jig head and use the same size jig head you normally use.

Here is a thought about that method. I fished that way for a lot of years...a 1/64 ounce jig head with a size BB split shot about 2 feet up....and I caught a ton of fish using that method. Then I read an article with Charlie Brewer where he was asked about that method. He was totally against it. His reasoning....and they were strictly talking about crappie....he said the crappie could hit it and move as much as the distance you had set between the jig and the split shot and you would never feel it..thus they could blow the jig and be gone. I know that seems to be getting pretty technical but seems logical to me. I thought about that article so much that it caused me to change the way I fished.

Regards

[Grainraiser]

I have found that you can go with a larger jig head if you downsize your hook size. A 1/8 jig head with a size 4 hook is not that much different than a 1/16 jig head with a size 4 hook.

[slabeye]

That is true about the crappie can spit it and you never know it was there. But if you stop it before it gets all the way down and then lower it slow you line will stay tight.