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Today’s soft plastic lure market is booming with new styles and colors of baits, but when you are looking for the biggest bite of the day, the fish that systematically win tournaments; then anglers in the know go to the bait that has been proven over time to catch the greatest bass; the venerable jig-and-pig. 20 years ago, this bait was reserved for the sluggish bass, or for fishing in the heaviest cover, or for bottom fishing techniques. Today, this bait is being employed at all times of the year, in a assortment of dissimilar fashions. This bait has remained comparatively the same over the past 30 years. It has gone through some cosmetic changes, such as better hooks, livelier skirts, and a broader spectrum of colors and sizes, along with plastic trailers, which enable a wider potpourri of color options, but this bait, dressed with either plastic or pork, proceeds to catch larger bass when other baits fail. Because of the popularity of the flipping technique employed by most of the veteran anglers today, the jig has remained amid the most frequent baits in a great deal of anglers tackle boxes. Because of so galore recreational anglers concentrating on the flipping technique, the jig’s universal effectiveness has been overlooked. Many persons have forgotten that casting a jig is an effective technique also. The jig may be staged at a lot of dissimilar depths and around a potpourri of structure. You are in truth limiting yourself if you only focus on the flipping aspect of it. Many times for the duration of the summer months, we have come in behind other anglers flipping apparent targets, or casting more conventional summer lures, and we have caught bass making roll casts, and looking for isolated pieces of cover that other anglers have missed. DIFFERENT SIZES Jig sizes have changed in recent years, along with skirt material and colors. The 3/8 ounce size remains the most popular, with littler versions are being used more and more with great success. The littler finesse type of jigs are much more effective in clear water, while the heavier, bulky versions are great for fishing stained to muddy water. Not that the heavier jig isn’t effective in numerous shallower, open water, but a more compact 1/2 ounce bait is more effective, than the bulkier style. I use a shorter trailer for this. This is peculiarly true when fishing a good deal of of the finger lakes of New York State, or any of the waters where smallmouth bass are likewise present. The heavier jig is more effective when the bass are aggressive, as it allows you to fish it more quickly and cover more water. When the fish are suspended, or you need to keep it in the strike zone longer, the lighter jig is more effective. We always keep experimenting with various sizes, letting the bass tell us what they want. In the summer months, when we swim the jig around boat docks, we opt for the lighter 1/4 ounce size, with a plastic trailer, to imitate a crawfish or baitfish. Swimming the jig is a very effective technique that is overlooked by a good deal of weekend anglers. Most little jigs don’t have a big sufficient hook to handle quality bass, which is why we use a Spotsticker handpoured Jighead. We have been using this bait since 2002, when we had great success with it in various local tournaments in cold water as well as in the summer. The Spotsticker has a more prominent hook than most, and it handles larger bass well. In warmer, clear water, we like to use a grub or swimming worm as a trailer, this is very effective when you are attempting to imitate a crawfish. In colder, or more stained to muddy waters, we like a bulkier trailer, as they displace more water and make it more comfortable for the bass to home in on the bait. The design of the jighead is another thing you have to think about. They need to be matched to the type of cover you are fishing. A jig that has a head that is more pointed, with it is eyelet coming out of the front rather than the top, is going to pull through weeds better than a wide shouldered jig. We like to use a Jungle Jig, by Northland, or a Terminator Pro’s Top Secret jig for this. The Terminator has a recessed eye, as does Mann’s Stone jig designed by Mike Iaconelli, and they all come through this cover well.These jigs helped us win the Big Bass World Championship various times. They were very effective here in the Northeast, in galore of the heavier, weedy cover. When we fish around rocks and wood, we use a jig with more shoulders to help stop it sometimes. Many companies make this type of football or stand up jig, which is outstanding for these situations. When you pull it over an object, the jig tips, adding more action. We have employed these jigs efficaciously on a lot of of New Jersey’s reservoirs such as Spruce Run. You ought to also match the size of the line to the size of the jig hook you are using. A heavy-duty jig hook requires a more inviolable hook set, so you need heavier line to handle it. Of course, it helps to recognise when you’re getting a bite. Big bass actually thump a jig with the same vigor they do a plastic worm, and a great deal of other strikes are felt plainly as spongy sensation, or just like you’re dragging weeds. That’s why it is essential to set the hook on anything that feels unnatural, it could be weeds, or it could be a seven pounder! JIG COLORS While a black and blue jig seems to be the favorite, we like to match jig colors to the water conditions. A dark colored jig with a huge crawfish trailer, moving on the bottom, does a outstanding occupation imitating a crawfish, but a white jig swimming over cover and around boat docks does a good occupation of imitating a baitfish. This is great when bass want a slower presentation, or when you can’t fish a crankbait or jerkbait with ease. Many times when bass are feeding on shad, but want a slower making something publicly available than a spinnerbait, this is the best choice. It may likewise catch the larger bass that are ignoring the spinnerbait. The new “Sweet Beavers” by Andre moore’s company, “Reaction Innovations”, have been the hottest and most generative soft plastic this year all over the country. We like the plastic trailers in the summer months, and the pork in the winter.The new Uncle Josh Pork is more pliable in cold water, while plastic gets stiff. In places where a lot of anglers cast tubes or little finesse worms, such as clear water flats, we cast jigs in neutral colors, and catch more spectacular bass. Many times when bass ignore other baits, the jig will trigger a strike. This is likewise a outstanding bait for night fishing. |
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