Eakin's Jig - Love it or Hate it?

[Finnz922]

I would say that the Eakin's Jig in Texas Craw with a Zoom Fat Albert Twin Tail in green pumpkin has quickly become my favorite all purpose jig. Anybody feel the same or hate it for that matter?

[Boondock]

Very good jigs IMO.

[5bites]

Great little jig for sure. The flippin jig was good too until they started messing with it. I make my own jigs now but the Eakins jig is what got me started.

[ppFishing]

I have some jigs from them. They're are OK for me.

[mrbassky1]

I always have liked smaller jigs. Where I live it doesn't take a big sack to win most tournaments so a small jig gets the bites you need. I started out using bitsy bugs and they catch fish but they were crap quality they may make them better now I dont know. The ones I used would rust and the skirts melted off after a year it seems.

Anyway I liked them so much I even bought a Falcon Eakins Jig rod. Only thing is I don't use them much. Just seems the conditions aren't right for them to shine. In the spring and fall our lakes are stained enough to power fish and in the summer we always seem to fish at night. But when the time is right they shine and I am sure someday they will save my butt in a tournament.

[Steve Williams]

while its not my go to anymore, i have probably caught more fish on a 5/16oz eakins jig with brown flat rubber skirt than any other jig i've ever thrown. they are the first i can remember with the weight along the hook shank so that you get the horizontal fall rather than head first fall which helps mimic crawfish very well. also, the small profile enables it to do a lot of things well. you can skip it, swim it, pitch it, and the list goes on and on.

i have been tying the omega baby j jigs the last year and they are an improvement over the eakins to me. they keep the same small profile but they stand up a little better and the hook is a wider gap and when it sticks them, they are stuck. cours i never had a problem losing fish with the eakins either.

one of the key to the eakins to me was that the 5/16oz jig was designed to be fished on .011 fluorocarbon and the 7/16oz jig was designed to be fished on .013" fluorocarbon based on reading some older articles. you can alter the fall rate by changing lines but those are the two base size i believe based on the article i read. the Eakins have one enough money off that bait that i wont' argue with them...

[C_diesel2]

Love it....black and blue flash

[steve1206]

while its not my go to anymore, i have probably caught more fish on a 5/16oz eakins jig with brown flat rubber skirt than any other jig i've ever thrown. they are the first i can remember with the weight along the hook shank so that you get the horizontal fall rather than head first fall which helps mimic crawfish very well. also, the small profile enables it to do a lot of things well. you can skip it, swim it, pitch it, and the list goes on and on.

i have been tying the omega baby j jigs the last year and they are an improvement over the eakins to me. they keep the same small profile but they stand up a little better and the hook is a wider gap and when it sticks them, they are stuck. cours i never had a problem losing fish with the eakins either.

one of the key to the eakins to me was that the 5/16oz jig was designed to be fished on .011 fluorocarbon and the 7/16oz jig was designed to be fished on .013" fluorocarbon based on reading some older articles. you can alter the fall rate by changing lines but those are the two base size i believe based on the article i read. the Eakins have one enough money off that bait that i wont' argue with them...

They really innovated the design...Made when Jim Eakins gave up trying to hide it and make some money instead...I can't say its the best hook ever made, but boy it has caught an awful lot of fish...

[steve1206]

Speaking of Omega, their regular finesse jig skips very well with an underhand pitch which got me to put one on a jig rod, along side my Eakins'.