A comprehensive introduction to the 32 most common jigs used in roadrunner fishing

These days, anglers have been asking in the comments if there could be a comprehensive introduction to the most common fishing sets used for bass fishing on Roadrunner. My friend William and I spent some time organizing it, and at the same time looking for corresponding pictures.

A tackle is a set of end configurations used for fishing, consisting of line, hooks, drops, floats, swivels, beads, lures, and other tackle.

The three-way jig set is a popular setup for live bait or fake bait drift fishing drifts. Most anglers use this rig when fishing with live bait. This rig is great for fishing near the bottom of fresh and salt water.

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The Ball Lead Head Hook is usually used for vertical hopper fishing. It sinks quickly to probe the bottom. Worms, baitfish, leeches and soft baits can all be used with the Lead Head Hook.

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The basic float set consists of a float, a lead bite, a drop and a hook to attach the bait. Some of the important details when fishing with a float setup are the depth, the type of bait and the species to be targeted. It is probably the most common method of fishing for anglers who are just learning how to fish. If you want to fish in deeper water with a float setup, then you may need to know about slip-floating floats.

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A fishing setup designed for presenting soft worm baits on the bottom of the water. The set consists of a main line, a drop, a rattle, and a swivel. The swivel is attached at one end to a hook-tied subline (1-6 feet). This rig is also often used for live bait fishing.

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Sharp leadhead hooks have a pointed corner that reduces drag when traveling through the water. These models of lead head hooks simulate small lures very well. Outstanding paint work is a great combination with plastic minnows and curly soft worms. Sharp leadhead hooks can be cast well in the breeze and even trolling is effective.

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The double hook bottom rig is a popular bottom fishing method among saltwater anglers. While the setup may take some time to assemble, it has enough charm to catch large snapper and grouper. The way the hooks are attached by using a subline attached to a three-way swivel which in turn attaches the hooks makes this jig stand out when compared to the two-hook upside-down jig. When fishing with live bait, you have to give the bait a short line tug to move around and attract the big fish bite. With live bait, this rig will help you attract more bites than a double hook upside down rig.

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Just like the inverted jig, the double hook inverted jig is also very effective on a variety of freshwater and saltwater fish. Tie the hook to the main line, knot it leaving some extra line so you have room to tie another hook, and tie the lead to the remaining line. The key to assembling this rig is to make sure you leave yourself a long enough line after tying the first hook.

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The double jig setup is perhaps the most popular setup for catching sunfish, but it can be used for other fish as well. Saltwater anglers use a regular double hoochie jig setup to which they add live or soft bait. Frying pan anglers like to fish for river perch, bluegill, rock bass and other species of frying pan fish that school up in deep water in the summer.

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The inverted jig is suitable for many fishing situations. Whether it's deep water, shallow, around cover, live bait, soft bait, bass, frying pan fish, or large saltwater fish, this setup works in most situations. The main line is tied to the hook and after tying the knot you leave some extra line so you can tie that line to the drop. If you want to keep the lure a foot off the bottom of the water, leave a little over 12 inches of line when you tie the hook and knot it. This will leave you with about 12 inches of line to tie to the jig drop.

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The fish finder jig is one of the most common jigs used in sea fishing, but of course, it is also used frequently in freshwater fishing. This setup works well with a variety of live bait as well as fake bait. The tango jig is also known as the egg jig or sliding egg jig.

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Many bass anglers favor football-shaped leadhead hooks. Ball-shaped leadhead hooks are usually preferred over other types of leadhead hooks when dragging a jig along the bottom. This type of jig is useful when working rocky bottoms, low lying uneven areas, sandy bottoms, along rock walls and many other situations. Ball leadhead hooks are usually paired with pork rinds, small shrimp and maggots. Weed guards are often used when using this type of setup in more weedy layers.

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The stinger hook is useful when the bite is too short. You can use it with soft worms, but most people use it with live bait. When the bite is short, use this rig for night fishing with leeches and baitfish and you should be able to catch more fish.

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The Ned rig is one of the best rigs for catching large numbers of bass. It's a finesse setup that uses a long shank hook and a 2.5 to 3-inch wiki jig-shaped worm. Most anglers just fold their 5-inch worms in half for use with the Ned Jig Set, but some manufacturers make some smaller sized worms as well. This is a dynamic setup and you can catch a lot of bass with it. Smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and spotted bass will all be obsessed with a slow-moving nerder jig set along the bottom.

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The Neko jig is a unique jig that is growing in popularity among many anglers. As you can see, the hook is located in the center of the lure and the weight is located at the head of the lure. In this case, it is the weighted nail screwed into the head of the worm. Some anglers also use small nails.

Basically, the head of the bait will move along the bottom. This works well for many larger soft plastic lures (e.g. large worms, wiki fishing group shaped worms, lizards and creature lures). Anglers commonly use this technique for bass.

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Polystyrene foam floats with a shape at the top that causes them to make a clucking sound when pulled. The rattle mimics the sound of a fish feeding on the surface of the water, thus attracting the attention of aggressive fish. It is very effective in saltwater, especially for sea trout. It can also be used in freshwater, although most freshwater anglers don't even know what a splash jig looks like. Splash jigs can attract flippers, white bass and largemouth bass in close proximity, and tasty minnows, nightcrawlers or soft worm baits may be good choices to pair with floats.

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Snapper rigs are very effective on snappers, snappers, rock bass, and other medium-sized fish that congregate on the bottom. Grouper anglers also use this rig, but there are better rigs that are more effective for grouper. The jig is not intended for walleye fishing.

The rig consists of a swivel to which the main line is attached and a subline to which the pendant is attached. On the subline that connects to the drop, you will want to add 2 additional towing sublines by hitting the coils. The coils should be approximately 6 inches in length. At the end of these loops, tie on a hook and you will have a nice setup for catching snapper and other medium sized schooling fish.

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Quick trigger jigs are set up to use the hook in the front of the baitfish (lip, head, just above the gills, etc.) with a second hook near the top of the baitfish's center. This helps the angler get more hookups rather than having the pike swallow the bait. The goal of the Quick Trigger rig is to allow anglers to catch North American dogfish faster when fishing with live bait or whitefish lures. It also helps anglers better release fish that are more likely to survive due to hooking in the mouth rather than deep in the throat.

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Rattling bead leadhead hooks are popular in bass fishing sets. Some of the better bass fishing sets on the market use rattling bead lead head hooks as the basis of the bait. However, some manufacturers make smaller lead head hooks with rattling beads. These are more expensive and will be significantly more expensive if you are fishing in very rocky, obstructed areas and are always getting snagged. However, they are very effective for a wide variety of fish. They excel on both largemouth bass and smallmouth bass.

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A string of five to six flies hooked on very small golden jigs. With a small piece of lead attached to the bottom, the flies can be suspended under a dock or buoy in those areas where fish are plentiful. Catch one and the other hooks will close together until there is a fish on almost every hook. Anglers often use some cut bait or small pieces of shrimp hooked on the hook.

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The Search Leadhead Hook brings your soft baits to life compared to most other sets. What's incredible about these lead head hooks is their ability to retrieve a variety of soft baits slowly. Soft baits minnow baits normally used on casting rigs will come to life on a lead head hook, giving you the option to use the same soft baits as swim baits. You do need to compare soft baits because some look pretty good while others look unconvincing.

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When on the bottom, this rig helps keep your bait facing up. It works great with soft baits like worms, lizards, minnows and crayfish.

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The slider jig is a collection of Texas jig hooks and lead drops in one design. The bullet shaped head helps to cut through the grass.

It is generally used with worms, lizards, shaped baits and other soft baits.

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If you want to fish in deeper water but still want to use a float, use a slip-float rig. You can find slip float jigs at most bait and tackle stores. Once you learn how to use them, you will find them very easy to assemble. In this setup, the float slides freely until an obstacle hits the float and stops sliding. You can set the float suspension point at the depths where you want to fish. For example, you may be fishing the edges of deep weeds and see that most fish are staying around 15 feet. By setting the float snaps at 15 feet, the line will slide over the float and the bait will be positioned exactly where the fish are. Jigging with sliders is popular among freshwater and saltwater anglers, but is probably the most popular method of fishing among big gill bass and bluegill anglers.

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Slip lead jigs are very similar to the Carolla jig. If you replace the bite lead with a spinnable one, it will be the same jig, just a different weight. As you can see slip lead jigs are used more than traditional carola jigs for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that the sliding lead holds well on the bottom even in current conditions. By using a biting lead instead of a spinning one, you can easily move the biting lead to change how much line is left between the biting lead and the hook. When you use a spinning drop shot, like a Carolina jig, you have to retie it in order to change the length of line between the hook and the drop shot. Slip lead rigs are usually used with live bait, but you can also use artificial lures.

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Spinnerbait rigs using live bait are very effective when covering fixed water. Fishermen who prefer to use live bait know that it is difficult to cover a lot of water with live bait. Spinnerbait rigs solve this problem. They work great with worms, minnows, small baitfish and leeches. A spinnerbait rig consists of nylon line, a U-shaped spinnerbait, some beads and a couple of linked hooks. The length of the connecting hook line can vary depending on the situation. Spinnerbait rigs (also known as crawler trolling crawlerharnesses) are very popular in trolling. You can troll for many different types of fish, but most anglers use these rigs to troll for walleye blue bass and northern pike.

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The bite lead rig is a very popular live bait rig for many different types of live and chunk baits. Anglers also often use the rig with soft baits such as worms, minnows, lizards and more. This is a simple rig consisting of a weighted bite lead and hook.

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Swimming bait hooks are a popular tool for rigging swimmer-type lures, but these hooks also work well with and are used with Texas rigs or wobbling leadhead hooks with soft baits.

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The Texas rig is one of the more common ways to fish with soft bait worms. Fishing with this rig can cover a wide range of water conditions, deeper water and also in the shallows if you use a lightweight drop shot. The Texas rig is a rig that works with a variety of soft baits and can be used from spring to fall, and it works equally well for largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. You can also use a weighted down version of the Texas Jig when you don't need as much weight.

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Tubular bait lead head hooks are paired with a tubular counterweight for fishing. It helps the lead head hook to drag smoothly within the tubular counterweight.

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Swivel Lead Head Hooks are perfect for a variety of soft baits of the swimming or bouncing variety. This type of rig is very popular amongst bass, northern pike and American big gill anglers. Maggots, spinnerbaits and minnow style soft baits work well on a spinning leadhead hook. You can also use a variety of live baits such as night crawlers, leeches, and small live fish.

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Wiki rigs are very popular rigs using soft bait worms and nightcrawlers nightcrawlers. Bass anglers can attract more bites by hooking the bass' favorite plastic worms or live worms in the middle. When searching with the worm's rise and fall retrieve, the action is much different than when hooking the front of the worm. The Wiki rig provides excellent action for the worm and entices a variety of bass to bite it like crazy.

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Accessible jig sets are great for fishing around scattered weeds. Surprisingly, you will hook a lot less weed with these accessible jigs. Lightweight jigs are very popular among the live bait fishing crowd when fishing around weeds for walleye blue perch and frying pan fish. You can catch all kinds of fish with it.

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The weightless version of the Texas jig is a great jig to use for large soft baits such as worms, baitfish, creatures and lizards. The bait can be maneuvered well in weedless conditions, which allows you to fish better in a variety of cover situations.

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