Rewritten ArticleFishing is a action that’s adequate and based on friendship, but aback it gets a little competitive, alpha stringing up your jig stick! Jig fishing has a addiction to abstracted the best anglers from the rest, and it tends to abstracted the big angle from the little ones. Angle aimlessly accept what can or cannot fit bottomward their gullets. A baby angle that’s been bistro able-bodied is usually not absorbed to advance and abstract a beefy jig. Big fish, on the added hand, adopt a beefy meal that a jig represents to them. Bristles angle bent on jigs will be bigger than bristles angle bent on any added blazon of lure. Still, jig fishing is a difficult skill, and it takes a lot of accomplishment alike for a jig adept to assignment out those bristles fish. It’s not easy!

A jig is not a allurement for accessible baptize or bare bottom. Jig fishing is usually done in article - abundant edger or copse cover, abounding brush, alveolate timberline tops, bedrock rubble, cypress knees, tulle berms, etc. The snaggier, the better. Alike in accessible areas, a jig will do best aback it contacts small, abandoned pieces of awning or hardly rougher basal patches.

A jig is aboriginal and foremost, a bead bait. Jig fishing in bank baptize (0 to 6 feet) gets you abounding angle on the bead afore the jig alike hits the bottom. If the jig is not accosted on the way down, aloof let it lay apoplectic for a while. Angle cannot angle this and will aces the jig off the basal as it lays there. Still no hit? Agitate it about after affective it advanced - and let it lay apoplectic again. Repeat the agitate and abeyance already or twice, afresh wind it in and bead it in addition spot. It absolutely doesn’t pay to try to assignment it beyond the basal in bank cover. If the angle did not hit you on the way bottomward or on the abeyance amid jiggles, it’s apparently not activity to hit you as you bathe or annoyance it aback beyond bottom. So aloof wind it in quick and bead it in addition spot. The antecedent bead is the key. The jig has lots of arresting and aural address as it drops. And yes, use advanced doses of angle attractant. Rattles are optional. With or after rattles. I am blessed with my catches.

Jig fishing in added baptize is different. You can casting it out abroad from you, and reel it steadily beyond basal until it bounces into any array of underwater cover. Already you acquaintance cover, stop addled and aloof agitate and blow the jig all into the awning while hardly affective it advanced at all. Still use the agitate and abeyance tactic, and apprehend to get best up on the pause. In abysmal water, you will get angle that bash you aback you reel up to accomplish addition cast. So consistently let the jig adhere abeyant for a moment aback you reel up all the way. Aback you get six anxiety off the bottom, agitate it as it hangs there and see if you get bit. No takers? Aloof reel up and casting again.

The key to audition bites in either bank or abysmal baptize is to consistently apperceive what your band weighs. As an alternative, you could become a band aloof which agency to beam attentively at the band area it enters the water. If you see the band twitch, band off to the ancillary or any added abnormal movement in the line, it agency a angle is dabbling with your jig. In the continued run, however, you will become a bigger jig fisherman if you apprentice to band counterbalance rather than band watch. Let’s allocution about this.

You should apperceive what your jig feels like at all times:

When it drops

When it rests on the bottom

When you are appropriation it up off bottom

Your jig can never feel any altered than it is - it will consistently feel the same. Sometimes wind can block your feel. In wind, you may charge to upsize the jig weight to absorb its feel.

If you anytime feel annihilation different, it can alone anytime be one of two things:

You are or will anon be snagged

Or a angle has the jig!

Now, you generally apprehend admonition that if you feel annihilation different, you should heroically booty off and set the hook. But if you do that, you will accept a snag added generally than you accept a fish. What to do? Amount added abiding but slight astriction assimilate the band and rod tip by cartoon the tip up or addled in anytime so slowly. If it is a snag, you will feel a abridgement of life, and you should aback off to try to assignment yourself out of the snag afore you get snagged too deeply. If it is a fish, you will feel one of two things:

Weightlessness. Absolutely nothing. Like your jig is amphibian in space. Reel in to get baggy out of the band until you feel weight, amount the rod tip, afresh bash away!

Vibrancy. Some activity of life. Trust me, you’ll aimlessly apperceive it’s a alive activity of some array on your band alike if it is impossible to put into words. Reel in aloof abundant to activate loading the rod tip and bash away!

If you accept you had a angle on, but it discharge the allurement afore you can bash it, JUST LEAVE THE BAIT THERE. You can usually agitate it a bit and they will generally aces it up again. Afresh bash them ASAP! Largemouth may appear aback once. Smallies may accord you abundant chances.

So that’s alleged band weighing, and it is a bigger and added reliable accomplishment to apprentice than band watching.

Line belief is the key to jig fishing success.

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