I Love the Northland Mooska Jig...Butt...

[Rick G]

The Northland Mooska jig has quickly become my new go-to panfish jig. I have iced quite a few fish in the last couple months with this ultra heavy, ultra small jig.

Here is the only downfall, they are not verry durable I have bought around 20 of these new jigs, around half have already broke. Weather it be the hooks breaking or the body seperating from the hook, I just haven't had much luck keeping them in one piece for more than a few fish

This has been the fate of quite a few of my jigs At just under $3 a piece I don't know how manny more of theese I can afford to break.

[bbfenatic]

I feel your pain Rick but gave up long ago....like after the 2nd one broke....you can tell how poorly they are made. Love the NL Impulse plastics but not the jigs. Discovered the new VMC panfish line of Tungsten jigs and plastics this year....love the jigs..... strong hooks with perfect gap....have not had much success with their Trigger X new panfish plastics yet but have not found a store that stocks the the full compliment or the options I'd really like to try. Been using VMC small tungsten glow jigs with the NL white/pink mini smelt with good success.

[Jim Uran]

Custom jigs and spins heavy metal series has been my go to tungsten after going through the same deal as you Rick.

[efishsport]

Check out sportsmens direct tungsten jigs--I have used them for three years and never had any break.

[Brad B]

Rick,

try the Clam Drop Jigs next year. I haven't used tungsten before but I got some of these and they have became my go to jig for gills and crappies now. I may even they them during the open water season too.

[Rick G]

Brad

I have the Clam line of Drop jigs not quite the same thing.

Jim, I'm a big time fam of the Heavy Metal jigs from Custom Jigs... I only wish they offered them in a UV finnish like the Mooskas.

[aiathompson]

Like you guys, I've been using various tungsten jigs and love fishing heavy metal. And I've grown tired of breaking the jig or the hook (not to forget being bit off by northerns). At $2 to $4 a piece, it's gotten a little expensive.

I was starting to think it was the product(s) and then started thinking about how I remove the jigs. I've heard of several various hook removers and toothpicks.

I saw that Clam has a Hook Remover for jigs to basically push the jig backwards. A while back I tried the Cold Snap Outdoors T2 Panfish Toothpick and have not broke a jig since. I'm sure a little more looking online, might reveal some other tools like this, but you might try one.

[fsnrod]

Maybe it would help to talk to northland about this. I like that jig I've broke a couple when unhooking sunfish but it's still my go to jig.

[pushbutton]

Norrthland is aware. They have been breaking since their inception.....at a rate more-so than others on the market. A hook remover is neat and all, but how do you get the memo to the fish not to pull, twist, and shake when hooked.....

[efishsport]

Sportsmens direct has uv colors.

[Hawg]

Like most Northland products they are a knock off. The real Marmooska jig is a HT product and I can tell you from making 1000's of them (in a former life) they are better quality than what's in your hand.

[fsnrod]

Like most Northland products they are a knock off. The real Marmooska jig is a HT product and I can tell you from making 1000's of them (in a former life) they are better quality than what's in your hand.

I've had many of the real marooska jigs fail in the same way the lead comes loose and the hook eyes breakoff.

[dan z]

Check out king fisher design. I have been using some of his stuff the last couple years and rarely ever have a break.

[DTro]

Its inherent to the design of any small tungsten jig. Solder is weak, actually very weak. Work that solder joint enough and its going to break.

I wonder if there would be a better process to attach that would be stronger such as laser welding or epoxy?

[Northlander]

Ya I have had a bunch bust and have since went to others.

[Scott O.]

I had this same issue with the Mooska's last year. Brought a few and went back to lead in shallow water and used Custom Jigs tungsten jigs in deeper water. This year, switched to Clam's line of tungsten jigs and have only had one break and that was my fault. They've done the job this year and landed more fish on the ice for me than any other jig this season. I highly recommend giving them a try.....if you can find any.

[efishsport]

I have never had one of the sportsmens jigs break on me and I have caught hundreds of fish on a single jig.

[ski_otter]

I've been using the fiskas jigs for the past several years and have never had one break. There are 6 manufacturers of mooska jigs, sounds like time to try a different one...