I am building a tackle box, and am curious how many ice fishing jigs fellow fisherman have. I am talking treble hook style jigs. Over 50, under 50, over 100. You get it. I for sure have over 100. Thanks
You can never have to many that’s for sure….got over 50!! 
about 40, so far 
I am right around 50.
50 plus here when I go up to lake of the woods on the guys trip and bring 14 rods and three boxes full of jigs everybody looks at me like 
i refuse to count, I don’t want to give myself a heart attack knowing even roughly how much money I have in jigs, its bad enough that I sort of figured out how much I have in spoons this year.
I tend to buy jigs 20 bucks at a time. Get paid, order 20 bucks worth of jigs, not near as much of a kick to the gut as spend 100 bucks at once and before you know it you are sitting with a few hundred jigs still in the package and jig boxes that are busting at the seams.
I have about 30 small jigs for pan fish, about 15 jigging spoons, and about 20 jigging lures (Chubby Darters, Rippin’ Raps, etc).
It’s a sickness I suppose but when I shop I always think about what I will need when I fish with a bunch of friends who don’t have nearly as much tackle as me, so I share a lot of what I have.
Over 100, probably closer to or over 200 (shhhh don’t tell my wife
I’d say easy 100+ but over quite a few years. And its always growing.
Under 50 and actually trying to keep it that way. Keep it simple stupid is how I try to keep my hardwater tackle box. Have a few different styles and a couple colors in those styles. Working good so far.
CJ&S = Slender and lightning spoons. Northland – buckshots, machos, and 2 small forage minnows. Clam – trying the blade spoon for the first time this weekend. Swedish pimples but they don’t get used much. Lindy – will buy a Rattlying flyer for Saturday if I can find the color and size I want. Sold out in 3 stores so far.
My open water tackle like crankbaits, well that’s another story 
I don’t have enough! 
I don’t have enough!
Ditto,,,,,,,, one can always buy another empty box. And when that one gets full, another empty box and when that one,,,,, well you get the drift.
I just gave a bunch of mine away and threw out others. Honestly I’m not sure what you’d do with 50 or more jigs. When I get out I start with my favorite producer, usually a gold diamond or tungsten jig or slender spoon and give it a couple hours before changing it. First I have to find fish, sometimes that takes longer than I’d like. Once I find a few I’ll first change my plastics on my jig or my live bait before I’ll change jigs if I can’t get fish to commit. That’s usually a couple hours in. If I’m then marking fish but can’t get them to bite I’ll have time for 3-4 more jigs before my 6-8 hour day is up and I need to go home. Long story short, I go out with less than 6 jigs and less than 6 spoons all nicely packed in a small pill bottle in my pocket.
Enough that I resorted to using more tackle bags. I fish so many different bodies of water and found preference differences amongst them. So, I went the rout of setting up for a lake or river Vs. by species
100+ You don’t wanna be that guy who doesn’t have the lure that your buddy is pounding the fish on ☺….I probably only use about 10 of them tho…Rattlin flyer or buckshot, tingler if they dont bite that and small frostee spoon if that doesn’t work…
I’m well over 100 but tend to use the same 10-15 most of the time. I feel better knowing I have options.
shhhh don’t tell my wife
lol. I probably should put a directive in my will for her to sell my gear for what it is actually worth, not what I told her I spent on it.
I know i have 6 boxes in my tacklebag…Not going to count em, but i’ll tell you one thing, I’m dragging over $3k of fishing gear in my sled when i go fishing.
I often do the same when I look at my sled and just think how much money im dragging out onto the ice. I just love it too! Cant wait to get out this weekend for the first time.
My wife says to Many. I say not enough 
Conservative guess, I bring 20 spoons and 20 jigs each time. But thats not counting all the stuff sitting at home. I have found that I lean towards northland jigs and vmc spoons, but I have many different brands in my box in case I need to switch things up. Two years ago I would think I’m crazy, but after seeing the box of some others, mine hardly compares!
I lost my box of Slender Spoons last year so I only have a few spoons.
More Salmo Chubby Darters and Zippers than spoons at this point.
I also have a jig-box with around 50 Marmooska style jigs for panfishing.
Like someone said you can’t have enough….then again, you can have too many. 
Under 50 and actually trying to keep it that way. Keep it simple stupid is how I try to keep my hardwater tackle box. Have a few different styles and a couple colors in those styles. Working good so far.
CJ&S = Slender and lightning spoons. Northland – buckshots, machos, and 2 small forage minnows. Clam – trying the blade spoon for the first time this weekend. Swedish pimples but they don’t get used much. Lindy – will buy a Rattlying flyer for Saturday if I can find the color and size I want. Sold out in 3 stores so far.
My open water tackle like crankbaits, well that’s another story
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If I’m not catching fish, it’s because I’m in the wrong spot or wrong time. 90% of the fish are in 10% of the lake. You can have every jig in Cabelas but if you’re in the wrong spot they won’t do you much good.
I have 3 boxes about the size of my phone, 1 panfish, 1 walleye/perch, 1 laker. Each box is full of 1 or 2 different lures in 2 colors and 2 sizes. Whichever species I’m after… that box goes in my pocket.
100+ but only use about 10 of those
This is exactly what I’m looking for. Keep the numbers coming guys thanks.
Enough for me, the blue box contains all the things with treble hooks, such as slender spoons, lil-cecils, jiggin-raps etc. The other box is all panfish jigs
I think I’m probably right around the 50 mark, maybe a little over in the blue box. And again pretty close in the clear box
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I’ve never counted. My collection of tungsten jigs (Fiskas) for panfish and then my “gamefish” jigs that include darters/raps/etc and various spoons.
Of all my tungsten jigs, I consistently use 1 for gills, and 1-2 for crappies.
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Enough that I resorted to using more tackle bags. I fish so many different bodies of water and found preference differences amongst them. So, I went the rout of setting up for a lake or river Vs. by species
I take a similar approach and swap 3500s back and forth as needed depending upon where I’m fishing.
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