MASTERS
swing head jigs
SERIES
IN EVERY CRAFT , THERE IS A MASTER : AN ARTIST , PLAYER OR PERFORMER OF CONSUMMATE SKILL WHOSE WORK SERVES AS A MODEL OR IDEAL …
As told by Tommy Biffle
PHOTOS BY PHOENIX MOORE
’ ve always been a jig fisherman , but most of my career I spent flipping and pitching
I skirted jigs to shallow-water cover . It wasn ’ t until 2009 that a friend of mine , Earl Collins , showed me a jig he designed . It was the first swing head jig I ever saw , and he told me about the fish he was catching on it .
I was pretty skeptical because it didn ’ t look like any jig I had ever used . There was no skirt , and the hook wasn ’ t fixed inside the head , so the bait swung back and forth when it hit cover . Also , Earl was fishing it with a 6-inch plastic worm , so it had a different action . It wasn ’ t until about a year later that I finally tied one on and started experimenting with it .
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