Soft-plastic wire grip idea for jigs and trailers

[SPOONMINNOW]

Ever have your soft plastic lures slide down the hook of your jigs after a few fish are caught? You have to either glue them to the jig or replace the lure. Either way the lure is ruined. Here is an idea I came up with 10 yrs. ago.
First off, I only use no-collar ball head jigs, and those that do have collars I flatten with pliers, cut around the hook and wrench the lead off.
What you'll need to make a wire grip: pliers, wire cutters and 24g floral-arrangement wire (Walmart sells it for $2).

 

[screwball]

would love to hear how you fasion your wire.

 

[screwball]

would love to hear how you fashion your wire. maybe a pic.

 

[SPOONMINNOW]

Coated floral arrangement wire is sold in different gauges. Walmart sells it for a few bucks.


Wire clippers or toe nail clippers and long nose pliers are the only tools:



Cut the wire as shown so that part of the wire reaches the hook curve:


Wrap the wire one time around the wire tie post and cut off one side close to the post:

Compress the cut wire tip close to the post under the eye.

Bend the remaining wire into the shape of an L which you swing into the rigged plastic:


I add the wire to all-size jigs even as light as 1/64oz (though with small diameter wire)

The wire grip never affects the strike.

 

[SPOONMINNOW]

examples of wire grip and fish caught:

 

[SPOONMINNOW]

Note: super glue and barbed jigheads are options preferred to the grub grip wire to keep lures up. But changing lures using those options damage lures which can't be used again. The grip allows lures to catch far more fish and still stay up on the jig.