A couple of us did good this weekend over in Wisconsin using jigs tipped with small spawn sacks. This is a very common way of fishing jigs in the Mid West, and has been going on for many years. Other baits to tip jigs with are calamari tentacles, raw cocktail shrimp, and maggots. A little trick you want to remember, is to tie up a very small sack. 5 to 8 steelhead eggs max. If you go heavier, you will have a hard time keeping the jig perpendicular, and it will look like it is riding a wheelie through the run. The sack is basically on the jig for no other reason than scent, and slight visual appeal.

We also do really well by adding a dropper fly tipped with a wax worm, or another small span sack on a size 6 hook. This way you have a jig at a certain depth, and a spawn sack or fly that is basically free drifting down the river and covering a pre-determined zone in the water column that is dictated by the dropper length.

Hope this helps. By the way, I posted a few digi pics of some fish we got this weekend on jig/fly combo. Enjoy