Pennsylvanian Greg Zeigler has been pouring, painting, and tying for years. His favorite material is marabou fluff with crystal flash or fluorescent red floss in the tail. Natural patterns are tied with peacock herl. Many of his jigs are ''thread-bodied"—tied with 3/0 thread. For his swim jigs, chub, and football styles in 1/48- and 1/24-ounce, he uses #6 and #8 hooks. For his smallest jigs, 1/100- and 1/80-ounce, he uses #12 hooks. Needle-sharp, they set easily in deep water with wispy monofilament. He likes VMC round bend or Matzuo sickle-style hooks from #12 to #6.
Top-quality hooks are key to de la Torre's jigs. His 1/48-ouncers excel throughout much of the season.
His current crop of "belly-spinners" and "chub-head" models are unfamiliar to pressured fish. His efforts yielded a number of my favorites that aren't available from mainstream jig companies. He also couldn't find jigs he wanted available ones were too big, wrong color, or didn't have the action he was looking for. He began making micro jigs to save money. One of that crew is Sonny de la Torre, an expert jig-maker from Riverside. They fish deep, often below 20 feet, sometimes tipping with bait, and fishing with high-end 2-pound monos. They manipulate colors and various synthetic and natural hair options. They machine their own molds, custom paint the heads, and experiment to find the best options for the huge coppernose 'gills that inhabit lakes Perris, Barrett, and Skinner. In southern California, a small group of bluegill anglers has been refining jigs and tactics for several years.
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