Bass Jig Preferences

I'd check with LanierSports.

He's been selling tackle for a long time and ties jigs of assorted sizes I believe.

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I'd check with LanierSports.

He's been selling tackle for a long time and ties jigs of assorted sizes I believe.

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Thanks baw

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captdalton

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What do you need to know my man. I will be more than happy to help you.

Swim jigs 3/8 and 1/2 oz in white, black/blue, and a bream color

Casting jigs 3/8, 1/2, and possibly a few in 3/4 oz. Black blue, green pumpkin

Some people fish swim jigs in 1/4 oz but I generally don’t.

So many jig colors and "wants" for jig colors. I am a custom shop so people call me for what ever color they want and as long as I have the tabs, I can tie them for them. But as for standard colors, try to keep is simple and do go too deep. It will hurt your sales in the long run

A few I tied up this morning for a small order. Some casting jigs and some football jigs. I dont use any rubber banded skirts. All hand-tied with stainless wire

I use Rubber skirting material as well as silicone.





If you do decide to start selling product, let me know and I can give you the skinny on dealing with stores, doing your excise tax and how to calculate things. Its not difficult but I can certainly take some time out of your start up

Glad to help

I would buy some with living rubber skirts not silicon slip ones.
Colors, black blue, black orange ,brown orange, black red/Orange.

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Are you buying your heads?

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I have my own designs and molds At Cast Industries. Correct I do. Spin cast, not hand cast. Some of my heads are powder coated and some are liquid painted. Depends on the color

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I am molding and powder coating my own.

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I sell about 500,000 total pieces a year. There is no way I can pour myself.


I will tell you this and Im not trying to discourage you. Depending on how you are planning on making your jigs. Rubber banded skirts or hand-tying. I hand tie


Head - .75
Skirt - .40 (average)
Packaging (.15)

Lets say. $1.30 with no labor costs

If you target $4.50 retail, stores are going to want 30 points

Dealer cost around $3.19

With a dealer cost of $3.19, you can base FET (10%) off that. so .32 FET

Add that to $1.30 and you get your cost

$1.62 Total cost

Dealer cost $3.19

Thats rough but you make about $1.50 per jig selling to dealer. Thats what you are getting for your labor. That is not considering overhead.


Jigs are actually tough selling to dealers. I think if I had it to do all over again, I would just sell jigs off my website and not sell to dealers.


Pouring yourself has some benefits but at some point it is a major task. Lead is nasty stuff and it tough to get. If you have a way to get lead, that helps.


I use Mustad ultra point hooks in all my jigs and spinnerbaits. For jigs, I use 4/0 and 5/0 32786 BN. Good solid hook and not overly expensive. Has a very good point that almost never rolls.

Hand-tying takes time and really sucks but I would not use a jig that was not hand-tied. Slide on skirts are easier to manufacture but harder to get a high price. Not sure which way you are thinking of doing that. Keep your sizes simple especially to start with. I do 1/4,3/8,1/2 ounce. The more sizes you have, the more inventory your will need

I do living rubber and they are very popular. I buy my rubber from LivingRubber.com. A 1 pound roll is around $45. I can do 125 jigs from a one pound reel. You add in wire and its right there at .40 per jig. Not sure where you get your tabs. I use Skirts Plus mostly. .15 per tab and they are 22 strands per tab. I make most of my jigs with 55-60 strands. Which is 2.5 tabs. Roughly.

If you need bags, look at Action Bags. I buy all my packing bags from them. Very good on price and they have a Ultra Clear bag that looks much better than the dull stuff at Uline. Better service than uline as well


Thats the same packaging scheme I use. I have a header/Backing card with 3x3 bag. I dont use a zip bag for my jigs. Since there is only one in there, I didnt see the need to reseal the bag. Way cheaper.


I am on the GS1 UPC system and that was very expensive. I did it a long time ago. I had dealers that required everything to be on the US system. I have my own parent number as well. If the guys you deal with dont require it, You can just print barcodes through most word processing systems . Id say make your barcodes match your part number for each color/size. Come up with a scheme so its easy for you to remember vs just a arbitrary number.

If you do run across a store that wants you to be on the GS1 system, you can buy numbers off other peoples parent number farirly cheap. I needed close to 1000 numbers so I had to do the whole thing. Total waste of 5K


Good luck. I wish you well with it.

1/4, 3/8, 1/2 should be good. Some guys like 3/4 for grass but I haven't had a lot of success with anything over 1/2.

red/blk
brown/red/blk
black/blue
green pumpkin

those are the basics... maybe a brown with some orange in it too. Keep it pretty simple.

also maybe some white here and there for the sight fishermen too.

Would love to see the prototypes. I buy my jigs from a local guy these days.

Here are the 15 initial colors I have in mind.



Top to bottom.

Left: shad, bream, watermelon candy, copper craw, watermelon chartreuse

Middle: blue craw, green pumpkin, purple haze, black/blue, kudzu

Right: purple tiger, black/brown/orange, PBJ banana, hematoma, delta craw