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[NADO]

Materials Used:
White&Pink Strung Marabou
1/2 oz (i think) painted jig
lead wire
2X uni yarn fluorescent orange



Hopefully I get get myself to back away from the tubes and spoons Friday to give this jig a true test.

[DitchWizard]

very nice should work well. In the deep water I have been using light green and orange jigs, I have some white ones but have not used them yet. I like the swarmers and direct contact with just a little flash on them

[getin]

It should be a killer. Just don't come back and tell us that you really killed them. Having being skunked in every ice outing this year would make me envious ...JK

[DitchWizard]

It should be a killer. Just don't come back and tell us that you really killed them. Having being skunked in every ice outing this year would make me envious ...JK

Just keep at it you will get into some fish, if you get sick of skunks just head out for some perch.

Sometimes I don't even mind a skunking on the ice I just chill in the hut, cook up some sausages n bacon, smoke darts and listen to Howard stern and slam pints if I'm not driving lol

[CanadianAngler87]

Lookin good there bud!

[CJR]

very nice

[O.My.Buddy]

that's a hot lookin jig, hope it looks as good to the fish as it looks to the fishers!

[Captain Barty]

It probably will work. Will it work better than the old faithfuls? Doubt it.

I tried experimenting with some homemade goby imitations a few years back for Simcoe. Caught fish but I still go back to the old faithful half and half williams and white tube.

[getin]

How do you rig the white tube?

[DitchWizard]

How do you rig the white tube?

Take a look at how they come rigged from the store, I think you just want them to hang vertically. If you are using them in bad boys or swarmers you just kinda slide them on I think

[CanadianAngler87]

This is the tube I managed to ice my first laker on. Its a 5/16oz swim jig, with the vertical eye placement instead of the horizontal! Tied directly to my line, although I use a leader I didnt in this pic for visual purposes. The longer hook allows for the hook to sit further back in the tube since lakers have a tendence to just swipe at baits. Alot of guys use a stinger for that very reason. Although a few fish we caught at the GTG just inhaled the spoons!

[Captain Barty]

Everyone has there preference on how to rig tubes.

Heres how I rig mine:

I like the 3" white power tubes they sell at CT.

1/8oz shot inserted into the tube first then a 1/4oz matzuo sickle jig head then a stinger hook attached to the jig head. Works well for me anyway.

[troutddicted]

Looking good NADO. Spin some up in white

[NADO]

ran out of white, that one is half white but u cant really see it with the white paper. Made another one just now with black and green marabou, basically just using whatever I can find lol.

[Swing4Steel]

That jig will work, i would fish it! trout are dumb and will hit almost anything presented correctly (not trying to say you jig sucks or anything). why the lead wire? i like my trout jigs to hang as horizontal as possible. As for tube rigging, i use a 3/8 or 1/2 oz tube jig head pushed in only half way so it sits level and swims well! trim the tails just a little longer than the hook.. you can also use a bad boys in a tube. swammers i use i high quailty swimbait head by northland. 1 tried about 6 or 7 types of heads till i found a front-weighted type that sits level at rest

[georgianbaydrifter]

Everyone has there preference on how to rig tubes.

Heres how I rig mine:

I like the 3" white power tubes they sell at CT.

1/8oz shot inserted into the tube first then a 1/4oz matzuo sickle jig head then a stinger hook attached to the jig head. Works well for me anyway.

the most natural way, tube jig is good as well half oz get u there fast!