With the Nearshore bite already ramping up, I realized I’d better start putting the non-tungsten jigs up in the Store. We haven’t been able to test each style – size – color combination yet, but every jig cast from shore and dropped from the kayak got bit. Our boat tester hasn’t been able to drop the heavy 180g and 240g rear weighted jigs to the depths yet.

The price of raw tungsten made it economically unfeasible to order more jigs, so I picked some jig shapes that resembled our bait fish, and had them painted to resemble oama, nehu and opelu. We’ll initially keep the price down so you folks can try these jigs and if a fish takes them, it won’t hurt as much. They are priced lower than any other jig you’ll find, and much lower than casting lures.

Paint eventually peeled from sharp teeth, but that’s to be expected with lead jigs. The coating is more resistant on the more expensive tungsten jigs because tungsten is so much harder a metal than lead.

You can find the jigs here. I’ll eventually add the full inventory of styles – sizes – colors and get them all tested.