Microfish

Try this; don’t paint the heads on a couple of them and see how they work. The last float fishing book I read, the author stated that he wished he had never started painting the jig heads. I think the book was by Jim Bradbury but I am not sure.

Anyway he states that the paint just ends up chipping off anyway so why paint them. He paints them because customers think they look pretty that way. On his own personal jigs he does not paint the jig heads and he says it does not make a bit of difference.

I personally have caught many fish on jigs. Many of these jigs had been bounced off so many rocks that there was little or no paint left and they still caught fish.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I fully believe the marabou is the attracter. It is colorful and moves in the current.

Just my opinion