fishing the Odd-ball jig

[Steve_IA]

I'm interested in any suggestions dealing with fishing an Odd-ball jig and plastic targeting walleye. What plastics (and sizes of) do you use with this jig. Is this an effective jig when pitched and retrieved or is it best when vertically jigged? Is it effective burying the hook into the plastic to achieve weedlessness? Any thoughts or experiences using this jig is appeciated.

[NetGuy]

I find it works best vertical jigging with a pinched off plastic crawler.

Haven't tried the gulp yet, but that should work too.

The head is weighted to land with the hook up.

[SD Boy]

I've fished it using both vertical and cast/retrive presentations and found it effective either way. I like to use it when the walleyes are tight to the bottom and relativel inactive, so I normally tip it with live bait rather than plastic. Since the jig stands up, I like to use it when I want to pause for 30-60 seconds to let the bait dance in front of the fish's nose. This is really effective in the spring with chubs and an added stinger hook.

I sometimes bite the tail off a plastic grub and put that on the shank of the hook, followed by a minnow, leech of crawler, but I've never fished the jig "plastic-only" because the jig's whole reason for existence is its stand-up feature and a hunk of plastic sitting on the bottom just doesn't seem to entice walleyes (a good current would change that, of course). If I'm swimming a jig off the bottom or hopping it with short pauses I like to go with a cheap bulk jig to minimize the cost of snagging up. No sense throwing money away on expensive jigs if you're not gaining an advantage.

[Homer]

I've only used it for vertical jigging, tipping it with either a Power Jigworm or Power Minnow. It works well for me. Never tried rigging it weedless.