Bank fishing in cold weather can actually be a lot of fun when you are around the bass. One of the best lures you can use is a small finesse jig to catch cold water bass!
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When it comes to fishing cold water during the fall, winter, and spring one of the best things you can do is keep it simple.
A small jig like the one I am fishing in this video almost always works in some of the coldest water. I love to fish it very slow and next to some of the deepest water that I can find.
If you do this on the body of water that you are fishing, you will start catching bass too!
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1/8 oz Bitsy Bugs are deadly on river bass (3-5’) on med/light spinning rod and 6lb mono. IMHO Your bait cast tackle/line is a little heavy for the lighter jigs I use. 12 lb line is far from the “finesse” fishing I like to do. You’ll catch way more by downsizing your tackle even further from 1/4 oz to 1/8 jigs on thes 10:12 e cold water bass. Try 3” curl tail trailers (instead of “big floppies”). They offer less commotion on these cold water bass and you’ll have better results. Happy fishing.
Also I know you use green pumpkin a lot. It looks very nice outside no clouds why black and blue
Important question. I’m in Florida so all my rods have braid if I put a leader will that be okay for this technique have 40lb braid on my medium heavy with a 8:1:1 ratio reel is
👍 …more bank fishing videos for us boat poor folks.
Just watched- 2 years late 😂
Gettin me all pumped up to get out in this December old and tear up a pond
Just started using these little jigs and have had great luck with them. Thanks for the tip!
Last weekend it was overcast and I used a black/blue mini chatterbait with YUM Ned Craw Soft Plastic 2" Green Pumpkin Red on 10lb flouro in 3ft visibility. It worked great for me.
You don't need to set the hook with tard strength. Your going to pull the head off one of these fish
Going to give it a try this afternoon
Im old school. In cold water I still prefer actual pork like Uncle Josh trailers. I still have old bottles and they are making them again.
Always enjoy the lessons. Thank you.
Let's go
We don't fish smallmouth in Texas. Smallmouth fishing is for sissy boys in the Great Lakes.
❤year old video but the timing is perfect. I hope you reply. Do you use the jig as is out of the pack or trim it’s hair or hook guard any? Thanks 🙏
Golly
Thanks for the bank fishing videos man, gives me some hope to keep hitting that bank! You da man!
Would you ever use a trd crawz as a trailer?
20 lb test? Are people for large mouth tuna?
Appreciate the lesson. Going to try this out today!
1rod1reel. 🤣
Came from your jig recent jig video. 😅
Could you use a spinning rod, since this bait is pretty light?
I love the bitsy bug 🤘 I pretty much always have one tied on either a black and blue or a green pumpkin. If they're not biting my bigger jigs I'll pick one of those up and go through the same areas that I threw the bigger jig in and it's almost a guarantee that I'm pulling bags of fish out of those spots. And the cool thing is big bass bite it to as you proved in this video.
I'm in upstate NY. I feel like 40 degree water, in April, is considerably tougher to fish, than 40 degree water in Oct/ Nov. Does that make any sense? I surmise that they are more "chilled through", from the long winter, where they may be more "refreshed" in late fall. Thoughts?
Excellent
I’m sure I told you in one of your videos Tyler but I use the bitsy bug a lot here in Michigan. I literally have a small box of them. I love them in cold Michigan water or when the bass just ain’t biting…. And it definitely comes through often
A BLUE GAYLE? Ha ha pretty sure it’s gill. lol
Thank you for the tips ordered me some trailers you use 🙂 a lot cheaper than the googan ones I use and they look effective
Love the reference to 1rod1reel!!
But awesome video and I enjoy the helpful tips!!!
That little setup works great around the dam near me for Smallmouth it just skips along the rocks and they don't miss it like the bigger jigs.
Awesome. I'm on the Cold Water struggle bus 🚌 here in Kentucky
Interesting, I just got a small jig with my mystery tackle box and it’s cold now in FLA 😀
Would never call that a 4lber at 5:50. Thats MAYBE 2 lbs.
Suggestion: add links to rod. This way we don’t have to search through vid for your description of it. Caught my very first jig fish on a Bitsy Bug. This reminds me not for forget to throw this great jig in cold water or when the bite gets tough. Thanks!
This sportsman outfitters has suspiciously good customer service. Very nice.
How many "gollie's" have you said? If I had a dollar for each one…
I’ve been singing the praises of the bitsy jig for a couple years now. They make one in pumpkin/orange – add a swimbait trailer and it’s an excellent bluegill imitation- I fish all spring through the bass and bluegill spawn with it. Also my fave trailer for crawfish imitation is the Christie craw from yum.
Do you trim back the weed guard on your Bitsy Bug?
The Z-Man micro finesse jigs work great too. Basically Ned jigs.