I actually borrowed that phrase from the website that sells Fiska and Little Atom products online, YourBobbersDown.com . If you aren’t familiar with the name or the ice fishing products available there online, get acquainted quick if you take your ice fishing seriously.
I have been fishing with Fiskas for about five years now, and what you get is totally different than any other big name line-up of jigs available on the market today. You get a small, but heavy jig. Heavy because the jig is made of tungsten, small because you don’t need a ton of lead on the hook to gain the same weight. That’s what you get in the Handpaint and Epoxy Jigs.
The Epoxy’s are some of my favorites, not only do they add a different look to the color scheme available, but they all glow too. All but the black, but some parts on them do glow as well. Green is one of my fav colors come winter time, and I really like the type of green they use on the Epoxy jig pictured here that I took from their website.
Jamie, the Head Honcho, operates just up US-23 over in Saline. Just last night, the website was given a pretty impressive makeover, and it is up and running today.
Will give you a first timer’s helping hand if you are looking to buy. The 3mm jigs are perfect for sight fishing those finicky gills and crappie. 4mm is a tightliner’s mainstay, and shoot up to 5mm for big crappie and perch fishing.
Visit the site, and if you want to see them up close your first time out, go to your local Gander Mountain store for your best slection in the metro area. From last week, I know the Michigan stores are well stocked, and call ahead if you are heading to the Toledo store.
By far the best selection besides the website is available over in Brooklyn at Knutson’s Recreational Sales. Don’t know how to get there? Take M-50 west, cross over US-12 and go right into town. At the light, turn right onto Wampler’s Hwy and its two doors down on the right. Behind the Big Boy on the corner. Its a nice drive, and well worth the stop.