It’s difficult to get tournament anglers to share their competitive advantages, but Magnolia Crappie Club member Bernard Williams let at least one of his cats out of the bag.
“I use tin jigs instead of lead,” he said. “What that allows me to do is use a bigger jig that floats higher in the water column.
“Take a 1/4-ounce head for example. It takes more tin than lead to make a 1/4-ounce head because it’s less dense.”
Williams expounded on his tin theory by saying he regularly fishes with 1/8-ounce horse-head jigs. A 1/8-ounce tin head is the same size as a 1/4-ounce lead head. He reasons that the bigger head helps him attract bigger crappie.
“I’ve got a guy in Missouri who makes them for me,” Williams said. “I don’t know of any tin heads that are commercially available, and I don’t make my own because you’ve got to have a pot that gets really hot. The melting point of tin is a lot hotter than lead.”
So if you believe in the big-bait-for-big-fish theory, the only way to get tin jig heads is to pour them yourself or know somebody who can pour them for you. However, an internet search for “tin crappie jigs” might reveal some interesting possibilities, like Timmy Tom’s Jigs at http://www.timmytoms.com/.
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