15-04-2016, 08:05 AM
Hi Bill, I forgot to add that a few friends and myself will add split shot ahead of the small jig to help get it down in current. This works amazingly well in many cases, the split shot goes 3-4" ahead of the jig so the jig itself still has a good action. One advantage to this system is that you can try several different weights of split shot in a short time to see what works just right for the conditions. I just added some solder to a Shimano 1.8S jig from Waveinn since the jig is a slow sinker. It was very hard to get the extra solder on without heating the plastic too much. I probably got a little less than a gram of extra weight, gonna try another one soon. I also am thinking about trying to solder on a small piece of lead rather than trying to build up the weight with solder alone. Some of my modified Martinettis have regularly outfished many jigs and I really like "tuning" or modifying jigs, although the Naory 1.8B has seemed to be the most perfect jig I have found for most situations. You may want to try the Naory in size 1.8D which has a much heavier weight and is meant for deep fast diving and it works well in currents.