Willard Wrapup (with video)

[TubeDude]

Loved your video!!  What were you tipping your jigs with??  Is that tear drop a commercial mold or one of your own manufacture?? 
have to get you and Tube Babe out on the pontoon this spring !!

Thanks, Matt.  I was using either a whole small minnow...or half a larger one.  Guys who catch only larger chubs usually use chunks or small pieces of fillets...with or without salt.  Some of the "regulars" use small shiner minnows or even pieces of perch meat.  The main thing is that fishy smelling stuff seems to work better than crawlers when the fish are feeding mostly on the little shadlets.  However, when they get really picky, you can use a page out of the ice fishing book...a very small jig with only a pinch of worm on it.  
 

The "tear drop" jig head is actually from a tube jig mold I have...for pouring on larger hooks for fishing tubes.  The ones in the picture are 3/16 oz. on size 4 hooks.  But the smaller 1/8 oz. also works well...on size 6 hooks.  And when I hammer the jigs on those heads they come out as a really good flat head...I call "perch tears".  The ones in the picture have little propeller blades on them but I make them without too.  Good profile.