12-27-2018, 06:46 PM
Absolutely worth it for panfish. The higher density of tungsten let's you use a smaller jig head that drops faster and holds your line tighter than a lead jig head of the same size would. You will spend less time stripping line out of your reel, slowly dropping down and trying to figure out if you're on the bottom yet which means you'll spend more time watching for bites and catching fish. In the past I often used a 2 jig setup with lead jigheads. One larger jig head for incidental trout/bass etc which was really just there to get it down faster 12-18" over a smaller jig for panfish. Now I'll often just use the smaller tungstens to stay on the panfish I'm actually targetting.
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