Jigs are an excellent lure for catching bass, but they can be a challenge for anglers to master. This one critical mistake on the retrieve is easy to correct and makes a noticeable difference. Take your jig fishing to the next level by eliminating this common problem.
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Another great video!!! I hadn't stumbled across your channel before today. Awesome job!
Thank you sir. I appreciate the jig video. Awesome content.
I finally learned how to finesse fish when I started testing lures in my mom’s pool. I noticed how little rod motion was needed for big movements and slowed way down
Hey Steve, awesome video!!! Excellent techniques for working kids for sure! I’m way old 😂 and many years ago I had the privilege to meet Charlie Brewer who was producing his small plastic worms and his techniques for fishing them. He used a technique called the “Do nothing retrieve”, basically what you showed on your first retrieve, no rod movement, just a painfully slow reel handle turn, dragging the bait along the bottom. I trained myself after his instruction and the success back then and still, almost 50 years later, has been incredible!! I do a little jig swimming as well along the bottom, when fish are a little more active, but that bottom crawl is the answer! Perfect video there my Friend!!!!!🎣🎣🎣
Hey Steve, awesome video!!! Excellent techniques for working kids for sure! I’m way old 😂 and many years ago I had the privilege to meet Charlie Brewer who was producing his small plastic worms and his techniques for fishing them. He used a technique called the “Do nothing retrieve”, basically what you showed on your first retrieve, no rod movement, just a painfully slow reel handle turn, dragging the bait along the bottom. I trained myself after his instruction and the success back then and still, almost 50 years later, has been incredible!! I do a little jig swimming as well along the bottom, when fish are a little more active, but that bottom crawl is the answer! Perfect video there my Friend!!!!!🎣🎣🎣
I have won more money with a jig than all other lures combined. It's simply the most versatile lure in our arsenal. It can mimic everything from a crawdad to a bluegill, even a shad or a baby blackbird (as Aaron Martin proved). You can use it as a power technique flipping cover or swim it, or you can downsize and fish it as a finesse presentation. It is truly one of the only lures that is just as effective at dragging deep structure as it is flipping shallow cover or swimming just below the surface.
If I were to offer one piece of advice, I would say to ALWAYS pop your rod up twice, then slowly reel the slack, keeping the rod pointed at the bait as it falls back to the bottom at the end of a presentation. This is because a lot of bass will just follow your bait as you're dragging it. When you reel your bait in, the bass will chase it towards the boat a bit before losing interest (I've found this with livescope). The double pop, followed by the gliding down to the bottom will provoke a reaction strike from many of those fish that you didn't know were even there.
a shorter rod also will move the line less.
Thanks!
Caught my PB with varied hopping and swimming a huge 3/4oz structure jig. In the summer this is deadly where I fish because you can target both fish holding tight to the bottom and fish that are suspended at the same time.
Great advice. I love your vidoes
Another great video…Thanks for the info!!
great basic information, Steve, as always, backed up by underwater footage…..have incorporated these techniques over the years in my jig fishing…
Very helpful tips, as usual. And the Bass Behavior Bundle is awesome!
Short and sweet……..
I love working a jig and Texas Rig like #2. I also enjoy little finger taps whenever I’ve let it sit for a bit. Great video sir! Love that underwater footage. Jigs seem to always product consistently bigger bass.
Tight lines, and God bless
Watched this today just before i went fishing, i had to keep thinking about your 1/4 turn handle underwater footage to help me slow down…. man steve it is tougher that you think changing your old retrieve and i found myself reverting back to it without even knowing sometimes 😅.. great lessons thank you
Underrated channel
Best damn YouTube fishing channel ever! Thank you.
Great video!!! Awesome tips & underwater coverage!!! Stay Safe & God Bless!!! 🤠👍
thanks for the tips! every time i retrieve a jig i tell myself "youre going to fast, thats too big a motion" and yet i cant seem to stop myself, despite knowing full well that im costing myself fish. definitely a hard habit to break. i've tried the swim at times, but im going to try the other two tips next time im out.
Thank you.
Thumbs Up ! 👍👍
Thanks for showing how you working the lure and the lure action underwater on the split-screen. Very helpful to see what you’re describing. This is my top source on YouTube for bass fishing tips & behavior tendencies. 👍🏼🎣
This applies to plastics hopped or dragged on the bottom too I'm assuming? Maybe even more so because they're often lighter weight.
Thank you! I caught a 7lber earlier in the spring on a jig but cant for the life of me tell you what i was doing lol. Havent caught a fish on a jig since. This video makes it all make more sense.
Unless I'm punching matts of weeds all I'll ever use is a swim jig.
Exactly why I use a medium light rod with my jerkbaits. lol
Thanks for the tips and another great video!
Don't forget about stitching too!
Thanks for the tips Steve. I love the jig. I caught a PB 7 lb and a 3.5 lber in the same week a couple months ago.
I don't always catch but i want to matter the jig and your tips and underwater footage truly help the knowledge.