Another benefit attributed to jig hooks is that since the weight in the fly is more centered under the line the fly is more likely to ride roughly parallel with bottom, in a more natural presentation. Firstly, snagging on the bottom is reduced (especially true for the second fly in tandem rigs), and secondly, the hook is more liable to set in the top lip or the corner of the fish’s mouth. With jig hook flies the hook rides what is considered upside-down, with the point above the fly. The same can be done with the fly rod, but the there are several other, more pertinent, reasons to use jig hook flies. In other forms of fishing, the jig is used in tandem with manipulations of rod to induce an erratic action upon the lure.
Slotted beads make things much easier and open the doors for many fly patterns, new and old, to be adapted to the jig hook.
Before slotted beads the workarounds to compensate for this were to drastically oversize the bead, bypass the bead and apply another form of weight near the eye, or the method which turned into the “balanced leech”. Slotted beads solve this by allowing the kink to maneuver through the slot and the bead to nestle up to eye of the hook. The main issue with jig hooks had been that appropriately sized standard beadheads would not slide around the kink in the shank. This is mostly due to the introduction of slotted beads several years ago, making the use of jig hooks easier.
They’ve been around for some time, but folks have recently warmed to the benefits of using jig hooks, and their popularity has surged. Now, the use of jig hooks isn’t exactly new to the tying scene. In the ever-expanding world of fly-tying one of the more popular and recent innovations has been the use of “jig hooks”.
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