ICAST 2011 | Jewel Creates Flop Top Jigs for Football and Flippin
Posted by Jason Sealock on Thu, Jul 21, 2011 @ 08:45 AM
The Jewel Football jig has been a mainstay for us at Wired2Fish. We've fished it on a lot of lakes and had a lot of success. This year Jewel introduced a new football jig called the Flop Top Football Jig. You can get an o'shaughnessy Trokar jig hook on this new jig. Anglers like Mike McClelland think that O'shaughnessy hook is what keeps the fish buttoned up on his Jewel Jigs. But the name for the jig comes from the rubber and silicone combination skirt that has extra long strands as well as extra short strands. Any good fisherman will tell you it's the uneven lengths in a jig skirt that make a jig appear like it's always alive and moving, even when it's sitting still. The longer skirt gives it an undulating action but it also opens up when you stop it to reveal the trailer.
The jigs will come in 1/2, 5/8 and 3/4 ounce in the football jigs. But they are also going to offer the J-Lock Flipping jigs in the Flop Top skirt. The Trokar jigs will have a flat black head, and the others standard hook jigs will have the custom paint on the head that you're accustomed to on Jewel Bait Company jigs.