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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 92796" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>I've tried these jigs before and where I fish in the Sheyenne, those type of stand up jigs, One: get hung up in the rocks more than round due to their pointed shape wedging FIRMLY into every crevice they come across.&nbsp; Two: get tipped over by the current unless you are reeling in directly upstream so don't function right anyway and Three: they pick up debris like crazy as they act like a plow bottom, farm the bottom, and pick up everything.&nbsp; In a lake with sand or hard bottom and no current, I'm sure they work just fine or when vertical jigging in a river while slipping the current, but for casting from shore they are NOT the cat's meow.&nbsp; If a guy wants to use a stand up jig, the best &quot;Stand up&quot; type jig I've used for river fishing is the football jig.&nbsp; It &quot;rolls&quot; over rocks and wood a lot better, doesn't tip as bad in current (they kind of just twist to face up-current), and functions much like the ball jig as the head is smooth so doesn't pick up garbage as bad.&nbsp; However, the standard ball jig is still the best for the kind of fishing I do IMO, so I stick with simple, inexpensive, and easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 92796, member: 314"] I've tried these jigs before and where I fish in the Sheyenne, those type of stand up jigs, One: get hung up in the rocks more than round due to their pointed shape wedging FIRMLY into every crevice they come across. Two: get tipped over by the current unless you are reeling in directly upstream so don't function right anyway and Three: they pick up debris like crazy as they act like a plow bottom, farm the bottom, and pick up everything. In a lake with sand or hard bottom and no current, I'm sure they work just fine or when vertical jigging in a river while slipping the current, but for casting from shore they are NOT the cat's meow. If a guy wants to use a stand up jig, the best "Stand up" type jig I've used for river fishing is the football jig. It "rolls" over rocks and wood a lot better, doesn't tip as bad in current (they kind of just twist to face up-current), and functions much like the ball jig as the head is smooth so doesn't pick up garbage as bad. However, the standard ball jig is still the best for the kind of fishing I do IMO, so I stick with simple, inexpensive, and easy. [/QUOTE]

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