Vibrating Blade Jigs
by Russ Bassdozer
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information for the lure models and colors that are (or have
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shown are currently available, and exact specifications are
subject to change.
Note: Some of the following configurations may not all be
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Vibrating Blade Jigs
1/4 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Alewife
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Alewife
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Alewife
3/8 oz oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Black Blue
1/2 oz oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Black Blue
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Bleeding Chartreuse White Pearl
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Chartreuse White Silver
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Dark Green Perch
3/8 oz Blade Jig ~ Green Pumpkin Red
1/2 oz Blade Jig ~ Green Pumpkin Red
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Green Pumpkin Watermelon
3/8 oz oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Green Shiner
1/2 oz oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Green Shiner
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Hendrix
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Herring Bone
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ June Bug Bluegill
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ June Bug Bluegill
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Pale Green Pumpkin
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Pale Green Pumpkin
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Pearl Blue Chartreuse
1/4 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Pearl Blue Silver
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Rusty Red Craw
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Rusty Red Craw
1/2 oz oz Vibrating Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Smallie Special
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Triple Chartreuse
1/2 oz oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ White Bone
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ White Pearl
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ White Shad
Wrapped Skirts
Wrapped skirts seem to amplify the performance of vibrating
blade jigs, taking them up to the next level!
These wrapped skirts are a new generation of super-silicone
material. This new super-silicone is a soft and supple material
that has a non-stop wriggling, swimming movement even on slow
speed retrieves.
To feel these skirts, they are lighter, more airy, more
quiver, softer, more rubbery than standard silicone skirts. When
used on vibrating blade jigs, wrapped skirts have a more active
wriggling and intense swimming motion than standard silicone
skirts. I heartily recommend you give them a try!
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Black Green Pumpkin Wrap
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Black Green Pumpkin Wrap
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Chartreuse White Wrap
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Chartreuse White Wrap
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Green Pumpkin Wrap
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ Green Pumpkin Wrap
3/8 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ White Wrap
1/2 oz Vibrating Blade Jig ~ White Wrap
Every lure has its place and it seems that vibrating blade
jigs are at their best early in the season. They work
exceptionally well when the water is still cold, such as the
pre-spawn season. But anytime when fish are hunkered down in
dense cover, the vibration of the blade jig lures them out of
their lethargy - at times when no other lure can. Many other bait
styles may not get bass to come out of where they're holed up
under thick cover, but blade jigs can.
These vibrating blade jigs use premium components, including
Mustad UltraPoint long shank spinnerbait hooks...
...and productive skirt color patterns.
People say the blade makes it like a spinnerbait or the
vibration makes it like a crankbait, but fish may see it
differently. You can throw spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and catch
nothing. Then come down the same bank again with a blade jig, and
do well. So blade jigs are not quite like any other reaction
baits, since blade jigs work at times when spinnerbaits,
crankbaits and other lures don't.
A blade jig has the appearance of a skirted jig, with the the
flash of a spinnerbait blade, and the vibration of a crankbait.
A blade jig is not like a standard flipping or swimming jig
either. Especially earlier in the season while the water is still
cold, a blade jig may do better than standard jig styles. A blade
jig is a little like a lipless rattling crankbait in that it
gives off heavy vibrations and therefore works in dirtier water
than standard jig styles. If you are in a situation where you are
hitting fish on standard jigs, and the water dirties up, you can
switch to a blade jig and expect to continue to do well in the
dirty water.
A blade jig has a tremendous vibration and frantic action like
a startled critter hightailing it. It is a more intense - yet
natural-looking - action than you (or bass) usually see in a
lure. The intense vibrating action is due to water pressure
pushing the blade rapidly back and forth several times per
second. The action starts in the blade which is almost a blur. As
the blade oscillates rapidly side-to-side, it causes every strand
in the skirt whip to frantically.
Soft Bait Trailers a Must-Have
As with any jig, success is going to ride heavily on the kind
of soft plastic trailer you use to go with a jig. Keep in mind
that any and all jigs including vibrating blade jigs are poor
producers without soft plastic trailers. Don't hesitate to
experiment with whatever kind of soft bait as a trailer.
You can add a single tail grub, a double tail grub, a hula
grub, a swimbait, a worm or any other soft bait is worth a try.
You may surprise yourself over what soft baits work good as
trailers on blade jigs. The trailers that work well on standard
jigs are not necessarily the same ones that work on vibrating
blade jigs - and vice versa. But as is the same with any jig,
changing the trailer will change the action and alter the
fish-catching potential dramatically. Do experiment and identify
a few different trailers that work for you on vibrating blade
jigs.
Shown above, from top down: Gary Yamamoto's 4-inch and 5-inch
Swim Senko, which is the trailer that bass pro Brett Hite used to
win $250,000 in back-to-back FLW events on vibrating blade jigs
in February 2008.
Shown above from top down: Gary Yamamoto's 3-1/2 inch swimbait
and 5-3/4 inch Kut Tail Worm.
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