| Once you have mastered fishing with jigs you will | | | | attention to any line movement or twitches. If you |
| catch more bass than you ever have. Jigs are | | | | see or feel either set the hook immediately. Also try |
| unfortunately not used as much as they should be to | | | | swimming your jig very slowly with your rod tip at |
| catch big bass. Tournament fisherman will not go | | | | ten a clock this can be very productive. Look for |
| without them. | | | | heavy weed or wood cover, or flooded brush along |
| To successfully fish jigs for active fish just present | | | | with submerged trees. |
| the jig close to the bass and he will come and strike | | | | In deep water reel the jig until it makes contact with |
| it. At times you are going to have to put the jig right | | | | some type of cover. When it does, stop reeling and |
| in his face to get bit. Their have been times I have | | | | just squirm the jig into the cover barely moving it |
| cast ten times to a great looking spot without a | | | | forward. The strike will come on the pause almost |
| single strike and on the the very next cast I have | | | | always. In shallow water if you do not get a strike |
| landed a five pound bass. The difference was the | | | | on the drop just let your jig lay motionless, bass go |
| cast that caught the fish was more precise than the | | | | crazy when you fish this way. If you still have not |
| previous casts. | | | | had a strike yet go to the lift drop retrieve with long |
| Cast your jig, let it fall on a tight line and when it is | | | | pauses before lifting your jig again. Cover is definitely |
| on the bottom reel up any slack line and lift your rod | | | | the key to fishing with jigs. |
| tip from ten a clock to eleven a clock paying | | | | |