Finesse Football Jigs for Fall

I stumbled onto this fish catcher back in 2019 while perusing some smallmouth bass fishing pages on Facebook. As a football jig enthusiast and hoarder, I am glad I checked out a new product that I found works so well on our crayfish infested northwoods lakes.

The Jewel Pee-Wee Football Jig is a tremendous downsized finesse football jig that produces big bites from shallow and mid-depth rock structure. It comes in 3 sizes (3/16, 5/16, 7/16) that are heavy enough to sink quickly to the depths when fished with spinning gear.

It features a durable skirt that doesn’t rip off, a pivoted football head design, and a wire weed-guard that maintains its weedless characteristics but also doesn’t hinder its hook-up ratio. The flexible wire brush guard allows the jig to be fished in the worst and most dangerous bottom substrates, and allows for the lightest bites and pick-ups to be detected.

Depending on how and where you fish them, snags are a result of habitat along the lake bottom. They are very snag-resistant to rock and boulder. Wood and cribs, on the other hand, will eat them up. Thankfully a $2.89 price minimizes the loss.

The Pee Wee football is designed when you need an ultra finesse jig that produces BIG BITES! Designed to meet the demands of the savviest angler, Pee Wee, is engineered with a pivoted head that creates a rocking action when moved. Crawls through the toughest of cover with a micro finesse tech skirt and a micro HD hook. Pee Wee is one serious player that knows how to score BIG!   

My Pee-wees get dragged along with medium heavy action spinning gear – a 7ft 1″ St. Croix Legend Tournament Bass  Power Spin (LBTS71MHF) with size-30 spinning reel spooled with 20 lb. Cortland Masterbraid.

Our craw trailers of choice are Z-Man’s Finesse TRD Crawz, and Bizz Baits Baby Bizz Bugs. Our best jig colors are PBJ and Touchdown.

We feel this bait will be in the summer and fall arsenal for a long time.