10-22-2004, 03:20 PM
I don't have a lot of heartburn over this particular regulation. Like Slayerfish, I believe it is designed to prohibit the small plastic stuff that often is infused with attractant. Those jigs can be passively fished and swallowed with much higher mortality than fish taken with small flies that are actively fished and almost always result in a lip-hooked fish. If you want to fish tiny jigs, you can tie some tiny marabou jigs and fish them legally. It's only the molded plastic jigs less than 1 1/2" that are not considered artificial.
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