Those are awesome looking jigs. Are those 1/8oz jigs and are you using casting or spinning gear?

Nice

Great presentation of the jigs! Thanks for the report.

All my salmon jigs are either 1/4 or 3/8. Some are in between because I just carved out my mold a bit to add a hair more weight and a more tapered neck. 2/0 Owner hooks on the biguns and 1/0 Gammy Hooks on the smaller ones. The one with the Blue head is a larger jig, I used to have a much longer tail on my jigs but lately I have been steering towards shorter ones because they don't foul up on the hook as much. Also FYI Island Bass - I only fish Jigs under a float for Steelhead. I never fish them under a float for salmon so I don't make any 1/8 salmon styled jigs. When it comes to Steelhead I have a completely seperate set of patterns and materials all 1/8th & 1/6. Also I run the 1/4 and heavier jigs on both spinning and casting. The only issue is that you will have to change the magnet drag in the casting reel to effectively get your jig out to the same location. Most of the time I take two rods if I am going to bounce back and forth between techniques.

Beautiful looking jigs jumpin. So when you're chum fishing you are just casting and jigging? What weight line are you using with your jigs? Again, outstanding work!

capture0058: Coho - 8lb line, 1/4 oz jigs - Cast out, let it sink almost to bottom and retrieve with the motion that produces the most fish. Chum 10 - 12lb line, 14-3/8 oz jigs - Cast out, let it sink almost to bottom and retrieve with the motion that produces the most fish. Unfortunately the retrieve (aka twitch or bounce) is what your probably after and it is hard to describe online. Each river and type of fish is different along with type of water. In deep dead water for Chum I sink to the bottom and then do massive upward rips with 1/2 to 1 crank on the reel and allow all the slack in the line to sink back down with the jig. As water moves quicker I add more retrieval into the process and the rips / bounces are repeated quicker. In shallower water (not the best to jig fish but occurs at the end of your retrieve usually if bank fishing) I move from bounces to twitching. Of course as I mentioned it is a technique you develop that works differently for everyone. Not sure if that helped or was just a waste of time but there it is.