Shimano Butterfly Jig?

[Lil' Tunny]

Thanks MR! Just what I thought would happen if you jigged a $2 6oz. hammered diamond jig, next to a guys $30 butterfly jig.
I've seen the shows and all the hype about the new shimano jig, but they always have everyone in the boat using the butterfly and never one using other jigs to show how much better the butterfly works.
I was in TD the day they came in, planning to buy a couple.
Got trinidads, toriums, and stellas. But won't buy $30 jigs, guess I'm cheap

[AhiSlayer]

Aloha
The idea of butterfly hooks may have come from the old monkey tails we used to attach to the top of cod jigs

After seeing the dacron or whatever is on the owner hooks I purchased fail so miserably on small reef fish I will stick to the extra heavy duty live bait style hooks I have never had fail.

I have learned my lesson about putting dacron or braid in harms way. it will fail! maybe not the first fish, but get a big one that puts the short piece of braid across the jaw and you will have trouble

In the post above I noticed somone mentioned the braid is 65# test....If you have a 100 # shock leader like I did and 25# test on the reel, guess where the weak link is. I did not consider this when I rushed out and rigged them up. I would not use a heavier shock leader than the braid on the hook. That means I cannot target fish over 25#s with them,,at least if I want to get more than 50% to the boat

Most guys that fish tuna understand that the drag on the reel goes way up when the fish is in the death circles. If you do not have controll of his head he will beat you. I don't tuna fish with under 80# leader
ahi

[Mike Roni]

Got trinidads, toriums, and stellas. But won't buy $30 jigs, guess I'm cheap

Your not cheap, your smart, why would anyone spend $30 on a piece of lead?

[Capt. Brian Daley]

Its an old concept used to add thoses stinger cord hooks to our cod jigs years ago just revamping an old style that works great that i still use today
on tuna and cod the west coast guys started it up again a couple years back
just go out and buy the stinger hooks you'll see em red dracon cord w/black
hooks and add them to your jigs dont need to spend all that cash for lead

[Capt. Brian Daley]

Sorry ahislayer I didnt read your thread I jumped the gun got to crazy when
the big hype came about theres jigs what was every body thinken cash in on
a new generation of fisherman. I always check the dracon after every fish
and change the stinger hook as needed takes two sec. next they will be telling us the morehead city rubber band rig is a new act. just kidding

[kilsong]

Heavy spectra or kebla lines are used for assist hooks.
As shown in the picture, I made an assist hook with heavy mono line covered with colored plastic tube using crimps. It is very easy to make them.
Tuna are more conscious of jig size than jig shapes.
I saw guys using butterfly jigs caught tuna, but I don't think the jigs have any edge over other regular tuna jigs like hammered diamond jigs, Yozuri's Metallic Sardine, Braid's hammer jig or Luhr Jensen's Stinger.


A giant tuna hit the small 6" Japanese Varivas jig shown next to hammered diamond jig(8 oz) at Butterfish Hole off Montauk a few years ago.


150 lbs mono line was used to make this assist hook.