Learn To Fish A Jig In 2024! (Success Guaranteed)

Of all the lures and bass

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ing I think the jig is the one that most anglers don't use as effectively as they should and to be honest I'm not exactly sure why I don't know if it's the fact that it seems more complex or has more pieces. It has a skirt. It has a weed guard. It has a jig head. It has a thick wire hook. It seems complex, but let me tell you something if you take the time to fully understand The Jig. You will catch more

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at all times of the year, no matter where you live, so in this video I will teach you everything you need to know about jig in many detailed sections, starting with what a jig is and what does it feel like to retrieve it? next?

I'm going to talk about jig trailers and why you need one to complete a jig package and catch more fish. Then I'll move on to the four main styles of jig casting. finesse in soccer and swimming, making sure at least in the throwing jig that I teach, from the perspective of a bench and bass boat, after discussing the four main styles of jigs, I am going to analyze the differences and similarities between a texus rig and a jig when you should use one over the other and to finish the video I'm going to go into two specific situations where a jig is highly effective and that is jumping under boat docks that are sticking out of trees, basically jumping to anywhere and everywhere because a jig is one of my favorite lures for that technique and also for jig fishing in and around current situations.

My friend Carson will be on camera teaching you guys some clever tips when it comes to fishing jigs around the current in rivers and streams. and streams there aren't many lures I love fishing More Than A J and I'm excited for you guys to

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in this video let's get started so what is a jig? That's the old question and it really has several definitions depending on what type. of fishing you're doing there are crappie jigs there are bass jigs there are big giant saltwater jigs a jig is kind of a general term for some type of fishing tackle now in bass fishing when I say jig what anglers what they mean by bass is that it consists of a jig head usually some sort of weed guard and a skirt, that's what a bass jig is and right here on the screen is a jig head that I'm not talking about as well as this one and this one looks like a bass jig. this this this this and this are jigs at least for the purpose of this video now one thing you have to understand about The Jig is that unlike the drop shot soft plastic worms on Texas rigs I think it will feel very different.

Where most people get stuck fishing with a hook is they throw it out there, they're retrieving it and they say, you know what, forget this, I can't tell what a bite is, I can't tell what's on the bottom, I get the fish hook. It hooked up a lot, so I'm going to forget about this and continue casting my Texas rigged worms, but I'm telling you guys, the jig, for whatever reason, gets a bigger average bite than a Texas rigged worm and a drop shot. . does, so it's 100% worth the time to put in the effort to

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what a jig feels like, it can feel down there, like you always have a bite, it can feel a little mushy and of course the bite can feel different from that of a Texas Rig. often Texas Rig worms, you know the fish bites it, they start swimming, you don't really feel a thud or a twitch, but on the jig you usually feel it because it's heavier than the average weight.

This here is a half ounce jig. I usually don't do it. throw a half ounce Texas Rig and so they feel completely different on the bottom, but I'm just telling you guys, the most important tip I can tell you if you haven't had

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on The Jig is to just give it more time because eventually you'll feel it. that there's a lot more down there than on a Texas Rig or a drop shot and you're going to get bigger bites now that this swim jig here has a trailer, so what's the purpose of a jig trailer?

You are probably asking that question, there are actually three reasons to have a soft plastic, as the tow on your jig firstly it adds an action aspect to your jig while you retrieve it usually in the form of claws or appendages, secondly it is for create a more natural look for your jig to mimic whatever your bass is eating, so whether it's a bait fish, crab, whatever your bass eats, you want your jig to look like this, lastly, a Trailer adds weight to your jig to increase casting distance and add the ability to jump a jig under docks and below deck Now what can a jig trailer be?

I have tons of different soft plastics, worms, crawlers and fins in these bags, which can technically work with any soft plastic lure, but most of the time CWS or small creature baits are used as jig trailers because Its size is neither too big nor too small to fit on most jigs. Now, speaking of fitting onto a jig, we're going to show you very quickly how to attach the trailer to your jig, so in my left hand. it's The Jig, the juice jig and in my right hand is a teaser, a hog game, watch and learn folks, you'll want to turn the jig upside down and start threading the hook through the soft plastic, now thread all the way through the plastic soft. climb up the hook and pull it out, then drop the skirt and Bam, you're done, wait, this doesn't look quite right, something looks wrong, well, you're absolutely right, that doesn't look right, that's not even the right sized jig trailer, I mean heck you shouldn't even use it as a jig trailer at all, oh my god this guy, let's show him how to pick the right one and thread it right this time if you want more presence in the water and a slower fall speed with your jig, choose a small creature bait or a large beaver style bait, like this Strik King frame bug, and if you want faster distance and smaller presence, choose a thinner soft plastic like the Rage Menace if you want your jig to have a ton of action in a trailer that provides a lot of action, like the furious craw with these giant claws, these claws will push a ton of water as you swim your jig towards you, the claws if you were to leave the template flat on the ground or deck of your boat, the claws will be extended and will not fall off, which means you have placed it perpendicularly.

Those claws when you get them back will act as a kind of wings on an airplane that keeps your template higher up. In the water column, this is great for swimming jigs around shallow grass, shallow wood, any type of shallow cover. I usually rig my swim jigs and my vibrating jigs with my rage bug or rage craw perpendicular and a side note here with all the other types of jigs, jumping football jigs. Jigs For Casting Jigs, you'll want to mount your trailers this way because a jig placed on the bottom looks much more natural than if the claws were placed on their side, so always set up your trailers with any other type of jig this way. but the other way I rig it allows a jig, usually a vibrating jig, to go down in the water column and that is to rig the trailer where the appendages are lined up with the hook, as you can see here, this will make your trailer move from side to side. action instead of going up and down more imitating a baitfish or a bluegill, so as you can see here, hopefully it will come into focus, my claws are in line with the hook, not perpendicular, so if I were to place this in my hand and of Somehow it would sit up, the claws fall off because in my experience they have been stacked like this, they both impart exactly the same amount of action in the water, it just depends on where you want to retrieve the bait, so my general rule of thumb is: I want to make sure that my appendages on this rage craw, for example here, extend below the bottom of the skirt material.

If the appendages are too high in the skirt material, the skirt will impede the action and not give you as much water movement. those claws, so looking at this jig here on this furious craw I can tell that the claws can line up pretty well right out of the box, but I usually like to bite into about a third to a half inch of the soft plastic right here. that way it fits perfectly where the skirt material ends right at the beginning of those claws. Lastly, you'll see where the hook starts to bend and as you can see, right there, the hook bends right there and that's exactly it. where you're going to want to get the tip of the hook here out of your soft plastic, so you're going to want to hold it on its side like this, line the two up and you can see right where it bends.

The beginning is where you want to pinch or keep a mental note, that's where your hook will stick out when you're threading it and lastly, the key to a

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ful jig trailer is to thread it there completely straight. I understood Tyler, so. what template are you launching a juice template was it a question or a statement yes, the juice template the juice template is okay, that's what I thought, so it's a template that you jump off the bottom uh yeah, that sounds cool to me, so show me which trailer I'm going to choose and how to mount it properly.

I chose a furious crab because I want a slower fall speed and more presence in the water with these claws here, so I bit the nose a little bit right there. fits perfectly on my flip jig. The Upside Down Jig pinches the weed guard and gets it nice and straight, like this, sticking it out where it should be threatening it down, well what do you think I did just now? That's great, man. about a vibrator or a swim Jing, well the bass are eating bluegills so I want my vibrating jig to look like a bluegill so I'm going to rig my bug vertical structure instead of horizontal finding exactly where it starts to bend the hook and thread it. it goes down my soft plastic nice and straight until it gets to that exact spot, pulls it out, screws it in there and just like that, my vibrating J trailer is there, it looks good, good job mate, I'm really proud of it, now make your template.

In my experience, the trailer should exactly match the color of the template you are launching. If you're close enough, you're close enough to be able to throw a green pumpkin trailer on the back of a black and blue jig. You can throw a watermelon. red like this one on the back of a peanut butter and jelly stencil that you can basically mix and match as long as you're close enough. The only two times I would really recommend matching your jig colors will be when you are casting a baitfish imitating jigs like a swim jig or vibrating jig or if you are fishing in very clear water for fish that are heavily pressured and especially for those white colors, all the other colors clash with white and you want to avoid clashes on your lures, but like I say, I remember years ago, I think the guy from Lake Fork made a video talking about how contrasting colors really worked on his Jake.

I think he used white and something else and fished with it, so it's really all up to you. and what you rely on, I'm most confident in matching as closely as possible one type of Jake's trailer that I now realize I didn't cover in this video is the swimbait. Do I ever use a swimbait? a jake trailer most of the time in my fishing situations no, because I want a lot more action than a standard paddle tail swimbait can provide, that's why I throw the rage Menace the rage craw the structure error because they give more presence in the water, more vibration. more water movement, but if you have very clear water situations and want to throw a swimbait or a vibrating bait, yes you can throw a swimbait and I probably would too, but most ponds and lakes around where I live. in Texas where I mainly travel, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, those areas don't have a lot of really clear water so most of the time I use other swim trailers and vibrating jigs, not a swim bait, can a swim bait? throw it a lot.

Not really, so you want to cast the strip line to the desired depth this way with the spool open that way the J can fall into the slack line and not come back to you in a pendulum that you want to spool. in your slack and for the most part especially when you have a slope like this in the water. I like to work it with a little jump like this, let it sink one two, let it sink and it's very short as you can see. you know, 5 to 6 skips with my rod tip and then I reel in my slack, I leave it there for a few seconds, I jump, I reel in my slack, it's not a big skip like that and it's not a drag now either.

If you have a clean bottom like a sand bottom or a rock bottom, you can drag more, but as you see, with all the dirt in the water, the closer I get my jig to the shore, the more things will come into contact. with and therefore impacts the appearance of my jig in a fish's mouth, making it lessthey will probably eat it so like I said most of the time in ponds it will jump like this and depending on the water temperature you can do that. jump slower like this and give it more pauses between your jumps or your drags or the water is warm, you can just jump very, very fast, almost giving it no time to return to the bottom and that can really trigger a reaction from a fish in warmer water You really have to figure out what your fish want that day, but like I said, in most ponds you will have some type of vegetation on the bottom, so a troll is not going to be the best technique to retrieve your jig, it will be a little jump and just like that, I returned the Jig to the bank with only a minimum of slime which of course I took off like this to make another cast, now this bank, see well?

Here's a great place to launch a template. Why do you ask well? Because it is deeper water and all of these sticks that have been cut by landscapers have been thrown into the water and chances are some of these sticks have fallen into deeper water. thus creating a fantastic deeper habitat and a great place to cast a hook now due to the weight of the hook. It is one of the heaviest lures you are going to fish on the bottom of your body of water and so it has a tendency to want getting stuck and snagged on whatever is down there, whether it's between rocks or a patch of grass or in and around sticks and wood like you see me fishing today, so how can you avoid that?

When you jump or drag that jig you will start to feel a little bit of pressure, a lot of times that can be the edge of a stick or a rock it could be a fish, make sure you reel in there and check to see if it feels a little different and if it's not a fish, you're probably about to get trapped if you don't do this. The advice here is to give it a few small jumps in quick succession and then a big jump, often times that allows the jig to start making its way over the cover and then the big jump allows it to completely break free of that stage. and if you end up getting snagged, a lot of times moving your line this way will help you unstick the jig or get to the other side of where you're stuck, so let's say I get stuck on this branch here, I'm jumping like this. it's not coming out, so I'm going to come here at a different angle, jump up and look at that.

The jig came out, so you're going to want to pull the jig back with a few reps or change angles, pull again and often release that jig several times and I'm going to repeat one more thing again and that is that a jig requires confidence, It can pick up slime faster than your Texas rig, it can hook more than your Texas rigs, but I'll tell you once I develop that confidence in The Jig you can know in your mind that today I'm going to go to this pond, it has a hard bottom and Damn if I fish this thing hard enough around cover, around hard bottom around structure I will catch bass and often times you will catch the biggest ones in your body of water, big bass, love a jig , that's what I care about that jig life, God, that sucked great, wow, ow, the Jig is not just for casting people.

I put that sucker there that The thing was there, it stopped to jump and my line was going this direction there was a fish there, wow, I totally thought it was a stick, come on, there's one, there's one, yeah, come on baby, oh , sorry, beautiful top of the mouth swimming next to some. Shallow cover you can swim a jig, you can flip a jig, you can cast a jig, you can do whatever you want man, that's why I like it so much on pawns, there we go, the commonly misunderstood finesse jig, now let's start with the Features that make a jig finesse jig Now the four main categories of jigs: you have a football jig, finesse jig, swimming jig and your standard casting jig or your Ary style jig, but what makes a jig fine, the first thing is that finesse jigs tend to have a lower average weight and overall size. than most other jigs out there, so you can have a fine jig with a football head, a fine jig with an Ary head, a fine jig with a ball head, as long as the jig have less skirt material, it is usually a lighter head size and just a general size. more compact package that can technically be a fine jig because while most regular jigs range in size, I would say from 38 ounces up to 5/8 even up to 1o, thin jigs are usually 3/16 to 38 , maybe half an ounce that would be a heavy finesse jig.

The second factor that makes a finesse jig delicate is that it usually has a thinner, flared skirt. Now this can come in many different forms. If you look for a finesse jig on Tackle Warehouse, you'll find there are a ton of different ones out there, which is why I said the term best is kind of a catch-all category for a smaller presentation, but the skirt material, at least in this one here, the V2 finesse marginal tackle, my favorite, the skirt material is thinner than the average Ary Football or Swim Jig skirt and occasionally some finesse jigs have the skirts cut in a sort of crown pattern near the top of the head.

The third characteristic of a Fine Jig is that they usually have some type of round. ball shaped head again they don't have to be, but that's what I found on most finesses Jigs and what I'm going to talk about in today's video and the last feature I found on most finesses jigs is that they usually have a lighter wire hook, it doesn't take as much hook setting power to get the hook into those fish and it also means the hook can be bent easily here, but most of the time I don't set the hook with so much force.

I'm usually not catching 10lbs on a finesse Jake so I want a lighter wire hook and most of them come with that now, why does finesse matter? And if the fish want some finesse in my Ponder Lake, shouldn't I just throw a standard? delicate lure like a drop shot, a Ned rig, a Shaky Head, a small swimbait, great question, well in many cases, especially around underwater structure, your standard finesse lures simply get hooked more often on the drop shot, especially the Ned rig, they get hooked around The Boulders. Chunk rock, especially around wood and grass, so the Finesse jig is not only something that fish may not have seen as often in your body of water at the specific times we're going to talk about, but you can also fish more efficiently. because it doesn't get stuck as often and one of the things I love about the slimline marginal rig jig is that it has two thin wire weed guards that allow the jig to stay weed-free even if it is turned on its side.

I have not found it. two weed guards that impact my connection relationship. In fact, this jig has one of the best connection ratios I've ever used. I think it's because the two weed guards, like I said, are extremely thin and so they fold up very easily and the hook. push those fish right at the top of the mouth now I'm sure the question could be asked right now Tyler, when and why would I cast a finesse jig over a regular jig if I'm so confident in catching them the standard style? I'll give you two situations: the first is clear, cold water, usually late fall and winter and early pre-spawn conditions, and the second is any type of rock or chunk of rock, that's where the Finesse jig will shine in those cold conditions.

Clear water situations, unless you are fishing in 20-25+ feet of water and have to put your lure in there and don't want to spend a lot of time letting your lure slowly sink, that is, the Finesse jig will really help. your bite I know none of us want to fish slow, but especially when it comes to clear cold water, sometimes the slower the better, a regular Jig might work in that situation, but I think giving the Finesse jig a try, especially if your The bass haven't seen the Jig package style again, the jig head, skirt and trailer falling slower than a normal jig, sometimes that can give you a bite you've never gotten before and maybe catch the bass more. great of your life.

So that's the cold, clear water. Now let's talk about where I think the Finesse jig was designed to be cast and where I cast it 99% of the time and that's around Chunk rock and boulders, a circle ball head jig is designed to get stuck. less frequently on this type of rock, I mean your piece of artificial rock on dams or on rip walls, basically what we call in bass fishing, community rip wrap, that's where the Finesse jig excels because any type of depression is a crack. crack hole in those rocks which are in abundance compared to slate rock compared to gravel bottoms, the Finesse jig with its ball shaped design, at least in my experience, gets stuck much less than any other style template and especially less than a drop. lower shot weight than a Shaky Head uh I'd say a Texas Rig worm is probably the only thing that slides easier, but sometimes fish want the compact style of a jig and that's where the Finesse jig shines.

I simply spit on my Jig and if you are fishing a pond that has almost no rock but has deep clear water, I would recommend trying the Finesse Chig. Can it work in dirty water? Absolutely any lure can work anywhere, but I will recommend the Finesse jig. again for Clear Water, cold water and especially slower falling rocks and the ability to scale them over rocks where for example a football jig is great for gravel, it's great for offshore stuff but when it comes to that Chunk rock, the football jig is wider at the The nose where you drag it actually grabs too much stuff and I found that it is very difficult to jump and crawl slowly with a football jig on Chunk rock on Boulders, while the Finesse jig does a better work so again trust my advice as far as you can cast it but I just found out that the Finesse hook is better in those two places than any other hook and the hook set is what I call a hard slant and all that hooks needed is feeling that bite that makes you spin and almost like a set of slant back pull hooks on that fish, there is no need for a set of slackline hooks and the best thing is that Mock Nation has some amazing combos built by L which are perfectly constructed for fine jig.

I'll leave a cheap combo and a more expensive combo below in the video description as well as the line I throw and of course this Outcast jig because I think it's the best thin jig out there and the last thing we need to talk about is of recovery, how is it done? fish a fine jig well, first thing again with every jig in addition to the swim jig and every soft plastic in addition to the swim baits, you want to let this sucker get to the bottom like you can't even exaggerate that getting to the bottom now many of your bites will occur on this jig as you retrieve it and sometimes it falls on the column on a normal jig especially a football jig most of my bites will occur when a fish sees it on The Finesse jig, especially with the trailer on, has a slower sink rate, that's where I find a lot of bass eat it in the fall, so you have to be on the same page. with your bait down there, watching your line to see if it jumps like you're fishing a weightless soft plastic and depending on the cover and the structure there again, I'm going to talk about rocks for the most part, you want to jump them slowly or drag them slowly even slower than a normal jig and you're going to find yourself to be much more successful there's one, yes sir, I've got it on the jig on The Jig, a big one, a big one on The Jig, holy cow, come on, my goodness, this fish It's much bigger than I thought. be holy cow holy cow oh my god whoa oh holy cow just slowly dragging the jig Finesse made me old seven eight pounds I mean, look how ugly this fish is, look at that tail, spawning tail, right there, but it's got the es blind. this fish is even blind in one eye, my god, it just drags it slowly, so let's jump into it.

What is the football squad? Well, the football template is a template and the reason we call this one specifically a football template is because the head of the template. It is designed to look like a soccer ball, not necessarily because a soccer ball shape is more attractive to a fish, but because a soccer ball shape allows it to burrow into the bottom and cause more commotion and presence to those fish than any other jig out there. It is the best deep water jig possible and can catch some giant bass. In fact, this is one of what I call larger presence decoys.

This is a great swimbait. Big Top Waters, big worms, that's what I call mybig lures and bring. These things come up when I want to get higher quality fish, it doesn't matter if I'm in a bass boat, kayak or shore fishing, of course you need to have access to deeper water and usually rocks as we'll get to cast the football jig, but in my experience it is just a great fish catcher, most of the time a football jig imitates a deep bluegill or deep crayfish. I know I've said before that some jigs like swim jigs and vibrating jigs. can imitate some type of bait fish.

I've never seen this lure right here. the football jig to imitate a bait fish on a broad level. a little fish a gizzard Shad to Cisco. I don't think a football jig will imitate that. That's why I almost never Look, at least I have never seen or used a white variation of a white skirt in a football template, most of the time it will be green, brown, black and blue pumpkins that will imitate the forging that is down there and I know from talking to the guy at Outcast that they don't sell many 3/4 ounce Jigs and he just doesn't know why because if you fish a football jig a lot on any style of jig, 3/4 is a very good weight I know for some reason anything over half scares people people love to throw 38 ounces half an ounce maybe 58 ounces but 3/4 of the people say oh no that's too heavy.

I'm just telling everyone because the point of a soccer jig should be down there, in the background, for most of your recovery, if not all of your recovery, dragging it around and banging it against things. You want a heavier template. I have not found any disadvantages, even in fishing like 8 to 10 tons of water with use. a 3/4 ounce football jig allows me to keep the bait on the bottom much easier than a half ounce. Where is a football template launched? You're probably watching this video and thinking, Tyler, I fish ponds or I have a pond that's very grassy or has some rocks, some wood, where do I use the football jig instead of other jigs like the Ary style, a jig for jump and a jig to swim?

Well, this is definitely not a swimming jig, so you shouldn't do it. You shouldn't throw the football jig in shallow, shallow grass, around docks, you know, shallow things like that and swim back to the boat, that's not what it's designed for. You shouldn't jump under the springs either, that's not what the soccer jig is designed for. and it's not really designed to be fished in any type of vegetation, deep vegetation, it can work, you can throw it in there most of the time, although this right here is a rock.gravel sand with maybe a little wooden jig, you're going to want to throw this out there letting it sink to the bottom, dragging it back, feeling everything down there and hopefully once you get it over one of those rocks, one of those boulders while you're while you're ripping it across a gravel floor, a fish tracks this thing down and eats it, that's the goal of the football jig.

I throw it on 17 pound carbon flat. I found 17 to be a really good fluorinated carbon for my setup. Throw it on a standard baitcasting reel, this is the custom Pro Speed ​​reel from LSE. I loved that. I actually bought this one as a prototype reel and that's why it has these flatter handles and then I have the new one. Mark Rose Signature Series rod and this is actually their Carolina rig rod. It's a 7'5 medium heavy fast action rod and I just found this rod right here when you pick it up at the store or tie it first on your line you might think Tyler this thing is a little stiff but this here it's a parabolic type rod so when you set the hook it bends almost all the way to the second to last or last leader allowing for a lot of leading what I call loading on those fish so you don't get a little bit of tip and if you say, let's say you set the hook too hard, you're going to rip the hook out of those fish's mouths.

This rod has a nice long bend. it allows for a uniform hook set across the entire hook set and you will see on some of these fish catches when I set the hook. I don't have to like to continue with the set of hooks. I set the hook and got them. set and then I just reel them in and as you'll see here in a second, I don't have to set the hook as hard with this rod, it's actually like a fancy rig hook under a spring or a light Texas. It rides around shallow vegetation even though I'm in 20 to 25 feet of water, so you have to reel in all your slack as low as you can and give them a big set of hooks, but you don't have to give in.

In the business, a lot of football jigs have big, heavy, beefy hooks and I found that when you set the hook really hard with them, you can pin them down, but as soon as they come out to jump, you create a big hole in their mouth and that's it. where this oasy hook comes in, it makes a very small hole in their mouth but still keeps them pinned down with the right hook set, so as I mentioned this will all be linked in the video description. We go out to the water and see some catches. I'm excited for you guys, see you out there.

Oh, I got one in the fall. I have one in the fall. I was wondering why my lure was falling so far. He didn't fall, he was just swimming and I think he's huge, oh my god, bring him in the boat, yes sir, yes sir, look at the absolute Chun OFA surus, right there, boys and girls on the football squad, ​​​​as even smallmouth bass can see. well it's usually a big mouth lure for me as I mentioned even Smallmouth can absolutely get it in there like this four pound 4B SMY guy choked it out. I was able to get the hook out, but it was deeply hooked, so I'm going to let the uh, beautiful, come on, but that one would be almost 4 pounds on the football jig, goes there, goes good, just gave it a little push.

Yeehaw, people swim, the jig, as the name implies, is designed to swim, swim, swim, swim through the water now. You can tell right away by looking at this B-roll shot I have on the screen. The head of the swimbait is different from the Ary style. It is no longer a round head, it is more of a cylinder. I would classify it more as a cylinder or cone rather than a round head, so because the swim jig usually has a relatively lighter head design, it is designed for swimming at the top of the water column, generally in my experience between a foot and three feet under water, sometimes even less than a foot, I'm literally reeling it in on the surface of the water within the first 4 Ines of the water column and making those fish come out from the shallow cover and eat it Now, when it comes to the swim jig, I don't always have to.

Cast a heavy action rod, especially if I'm in sparse vegetation. I can cast a 7 foot 3 medium weight rod. If you're really aiming to cast with it, I'd go with a 7t or a 610, you just want to make sure you have enough. The backbone to get the hook into those fish. The swim jig works best for me on shorter casts because I can set the hook and really get the fish out of that shallow cover, but especially if I'm fishing around Lily Pads like they're hard lily pads. type of bushes or trees. I want to throw a heavy action rod very similar, very, very similar to what I throw with the Ary style jig head.

I'll throw the swim jig and I'm casting a lot more often. braided line on a swim jig which in the Ary style, is kind of a do nothing lure, similar to a spinner bait, now I give it a little more action with my rod tip than with a spinner bait, esp. after spawning. There's something called the Alabama Shake that I use after the spawn, where you basically rapidly vibrate the tip of your rod to keep the skirt tight the entire time, but especially in the fall, I usually just roll it back with that. The rage C trailer keeps it as close to any type of cover as possible, like these shallow bushes here if today and of course I keep my rod tip high if I want to keep the bait high up in the column of water, like around these bushes, and then let it fall.

Lower it if I want the bait to sink lower in the water column as well. I have one. I don't think it's big, but I'm pulling them there. We're going amazing. Hello Friend how are you? How are you? come up here, there you go, thanks for biting the Swim J, yeah, come on, come on, come on, come on, yeah, come on baby, that's what I'm talking about, we figured it out, it's a long, it's not a Minnesota bass. skinny, it's a long skinny bass right there he pulled it out of this heavy cover amazing hell yeah there's one running towards me holy cow get off that branch get off those things yeah here we go it ain't bad again, just outdoors. in that shallow water that's a great dunk every time the hook gets them in that soft area just beyond the hard part of their mouth, that's amazing and when you reel it in you know there's not a lot of pressure. reels you in like you would a ChatterBait or a spinner bait or a wood bait, you're basically reeling in a limp jig so the fish can often loosen your line, so you need a high speed gear ratio as I mentioned To catch.

Get up on them and don't be afraid to give the fish the business of your hook set because, especially around heavy cover, you want them to turn and lift their heads so you can get them out of there as quickly as possible. The swimming template is not a no. a lure that you want to throw if you're interested in the fight, if you're interested, you know how to play with that fish for a while and feel it pull, that's not a swim jig, you want to get that thing back in the boat as quickly as possible. possible now we're really going to focus specifically on a creature bait Texas Rig Texas Rig craw that type of bluegills that imitate crawfish that imitate Texas Rig and compare and contrast it with a jig, you can throw a Texas Rig and a jig pretty interchangeably and let me explain what I mean by that so this right here is the stealth combat jig for marginalized rigs it's a half or jig with a pretty strong weed guard and a very strong hook and it's made for fishing in and around shallow vegetation, but they really have I think they have their own advantages when it comes to casting one over the other and I'm going to explain that right now, starting with the Texas Rig first, what is a Texas Rig?

A Texas Rig is a way to rig a soft plastic of some type. type, whether it be a creature bait, a worm, a Shad imitation, such as a fluke or swim bait. Texas Rig is just the way the hook is mounted on the soft plastic, the rig is also a much more diverse set of lures, whereas a jig can have a flipping jig uh, a grass jig, a swim jig , an American football template, that's really it. You have four or five different types of jigs, but when it comes to a Texas R soft plastic, there are so many things like I mentioned, there are creature baits, there are crab baits, there are swim baits, there are big ones. worms, there are small worms, tons of things can be rigged in Texas, so the Texas Rig again is much more versatile, tons more scenarios you can throw a Texas Rig in now when it comes to weedless, as in resistance to the snags on a Texas Rig vs. a Jig I think a Texas Rig, when properly rigged and when new, is a lot less weedy than a jig can be, so if I have my soft plastic creature bait and the hook is all the way in, I mean I can run my finger down.

I can push it against my boat, what else can I do? I mean, I can run it against my shirt like this and it literally won't snag because that's how algae-free it is, but as you catch more and more fish with your Texas F soft plastic, the hook you know will start to stick out. this way and you will know that after each fish, the bait will become more and more worn and therefore less and less Texas fre without algae can also settle in any direction inside the fish. mouth and sometimes it's easier for a fish to get the hook in their mouth, especially on a creature bait presentation, a job is a little different because they can bite the tail of the worm and not get the hook, but when it comes to contrast Creature Bait rigged in Texas with the jig.

I found that you can definitely hook the fish in a lot more places inside the mouth with this, but that's not always a good thing to be able to hook the fish anywhere in the mouth with a good hookup ratio. a super thin wire which is not always what I'm looking for and I prefer to cast a jig in most grass dock, shallow wood and shallow vegetation scenarios and let me explain why one of the cool things about a jig especially the ones I use the Outcast rig because the head is designed to make the hook not straight like vertical, you know, at the12:00 but every time the H, the jig sits on the bottom the hook points up now of course it has a weed guard over it to keep it from getting stuck but I literally promise you this doesn't is configured.

I'm going to grab my camera right now, this is what my stencil was like, I literally threw my stencil on the ground. deck of the boat before I start this video and this is what the jig looks like, I'm just going to throw it in my hand, as you can see it lands like this sitting with the hook up, so when a fish comes and bites a jig, It's going to Suck the Jig and when you set the hook, the hook will put the fish at the top of the mouth, just like a Texas Rig is great because like I said, you can really get much better sets of hooks if the fish eats.

Anywhere you look at the difference between these two, it doesn't really seem like one has more fish-catching potential than the other. In fact, this is a larger lure. You would think this one would actually catch more big fish. than this jig, but for some reason I think it's because when The Jig hits the bottom or is swimming, the skirt pulses, it's a more direct technique and I know one thing about big bass, almost always when they are. The aggressive ones want something big, flashy, and flashy rather than something small and delicate, so I think a jig, for whatever reason, catches more fish and I definitely have some data to show that over the years, oh gosh, no.

I like Pike, there is one. a tiny little dingoo on The Jig. The Jig is really like my target, so I saw a nice patch of grass. I really want to have a very realistic looking lure down there, but when I'm just covering water, I want to throw Texas Rig, so I'm going to keep circling the Jig because there are a few more target areas I have around here and then as soon as we get back to fishing right at the end of the bank along the grass line I'll switch to the Texas because you can fish both in one day you know it's not one from the other.

I like to change it up throughout the day and depending on what area I'm fishing I mix it up, like I said here. We've got some nice patches of grass that I see down there on the live scope so I'm going to throw the template at them and then as soon as I get back to the grass line I'm going to switch to full t so we've all seen it on Instagram Tik. Play YouTube, people who can jump very, very well, you know what I'm talking about. Clips like this, you can look at those clips and think first of all, that's awesome, second of all, how the hell do they do that and how can I do that? do it myself because it looks incredibly fun to jump a lure down there see the explosion feel the bite set the hook and land those fish and I know for a long time as a big time angler I couldn't understand how those guys did that without making my reel go through from this to uh, the opposite of this, to a violent reaction.

Now why skip well? The reasoning for this is because most people can't understand the reason why, as you'll see in this video, I caught so many bass today. Many a good one has had the time of my life because I have learned to take my lure further under the dock, further under the overhanging tree further under XYZ, whatever you want to call it Fisher below. I've learned to take my lure farther than anyone else, and by following these tips, you can do it too. The main thing we need to talk about is what equipment in terms of rod and reels and what type of lures they can skip, so, an example of a lure they can't. skip is a crankbait or let's say this lure here this is a top water popper yeah you can't skip this thing or at least if you can call me because you're a lot better at fishing than me because this lure here is it's not designed to be skipped it has two hooks for problems that are kind of flying all over the place and order to jump, you need a lure that is more compact and has a flatter design to be able to go under a dock, so a spinner bait, can you jump it?, no , a crankbait, can you jump it?, no. lizard, can you skip it?

No, don't skip a lizard. There are several different lures that I would recommend skipping. That's a Texas regulated soft plastic and a jig, and really, when it comes to Texas Rig soft plastics, I'm just skipping two, I'm just skipping a soft plastic Texas cinko or racki rigged and a soft plastic fluke like the um Strike King Caffeine Shad, that's the only thing on the Texas R side that I'm going to skip because one that they skip is super easy. and two, that's just the L that I'm confident in, but the one I'm talking about today and the one I skip most of the time.

I'm talking about the vast majority 80 85% of the time underneath things that stick out like like a dock or a protruding tree is going to be a jig, this is the cage fighting jig designed by Seth Fighter and this thing is designed specifically for scenarios heavy cover, such as jumping docks, under overhanging trees, and spinning in and around wood and grass and So I love this lure. It gets under the dock as well as you'll see in this video and of course we'll jump on the front deck here in a second and show you the exact body movements and everything you need.

You need to be a competent captain on the water, we have a dock right here, we have a float for a pontoon, whatever type of boat they have here and then you have a little personal area to sit in chairs, uh, and the bass. most of the time they will be sitting as far back as possible under this main area and the reasoning for this, as I mentioned, is that shade is the same with trees overhanging underneath and the same with anything else that provides shade, that's where the lows are. especially during these hot summer days, so I'm going to grab my template.

I have a fringe rig cage fighting jig and I'm going to run it to my proper jump height off the rod tip so as you can see I like it. to keep my bait about a foot to a foot and a half below my rod tip may be different for you. This is a personal feeling, but it's about the distance I like to have on the tip of the rod. Casting amount is very, very important when it comes to jumping, so if I were you and you had a pool or a backyard, I would literally cast up to that exact distance from the tip of the rod to the lure.

Make another cast that way. You don't know exactly when to stop the reel right there, boom, it's a complete game of muscle memory, there aren't many jumps that aren't muscle memory, so this is the first thing I would say to do whenever you're home and want to practice. the pier jump, but of course you don't have a pier to jump on or an underlying tree to jump on. Practice the muscle memory of the Roll Cast, staggering exactly where you need to be within a foot and a half of the Roll Cast. I'm going to do a spin cast like I talked about what is a spin cast this is an overhead cast this is a sidearm cast a spin cast is where you spin the lure just like this one you're taking instead By casting it like this you are making a full clockwise right turn with the lure.

You see that many kids do roll roll cast, build, dance with one hand. I do it with two hands like this for more stability, so you do a roll cast and roll forward. I bring my left elbow, uh, what's this called, my left elbow, I bring my right elbow up to my hip and I shoot the lure and then I release it as soon as I get to the bottom and if you play Frisbee you'll know what I'm talking about. but if you don't, I would recommend that you get an ultimate frisbee disc, one of the Academy ones or whatever frisbee is around the house, and learn to throw a frisbee like this, because the reason I'm good at jumping springs is not It's because I've done it for a long time, it's because I played Frisbee for a long time, so this is one of the strangest tips I've ever given on the channel, but I got better at skipping a lure because I'm better with frisbee, so literally the The act of throwing a frisbee like this is exactly the same as putting a rod and reel in my hand and jumping it, it's the exact same motion, and that's the strangest advice I'm going to give you.

You guys, sometime on this channel, pick up a frisbee if you want to be better at jumping springs, like I said, you want to throw it like this and shoot it down, and as long as you have the brakes on, like I'm talking about. I have my brakes very, very high right there, my magnetic brakes right there on the outside of the reel are very high on my reel tension, although I like to have a little bit more slack because I have more confidence, but if you're not sure how I said, uh, make sure you tighten the spool tension.

I'm going to make a little roll like this, shoot it and one thing I do at the end of my cast to make sure it fits right. underneath, I'll lift my rod tip up and for some reason I've found that really helps the lure jump there, you'll have negative reactions throughout the game, but as long as you're jumping like that, we're going to put the lure right where it needs to be every time. , so we find a dock here and we have the camera Levi, the cameraman, is on the shore and I want to show you exactly the same thing that I just showed you, but from a different angle, so you're usually seeing where the bank fishermen are casting to the dock now we're in a boat casting under the dock jumping like we're talking about today so I'm going to do the exact same thing.

The same thing I just talked about. I'm going to pretend I just took another jump. I'm gonna throw. It's all about speed in this game of efficiency. It goes up to about a foot and a foot and a half. I'm going to do a roll cast like this, just literally rolling and letting it go as I do it. I'll click on my reel so I don't have to keep my thumb on it when I get there, you have to do it. Aim and imagine with the tip of your rod which area of ​​the dock or under the overhanging tree you want to go to, and after a while it will become a bit of muscle memory.

You'll be able to skip exactly where your eyes are going because your rod tip will follow your eyes, so let's say I'm trying to skip this dock here, so let's zoom out and show you the whole dock. This pier here isn't exactly great for bass fishing. It's a small dock, but it worked better for this angle, uh, so I'm going to skip it between the pilings here and the pilings there where the wheels are, so I'll have about a foot and a half of line to make a spin cast. And so, I want to make sure that you have the insole or the soft plastic as flat as possible, so I take the skirt and move it away from the bottom, where it jumps up once again about a foot and a half.

Cast the line just like that and of course keeping your thumb on the spool is very, very important. I rarely do my jumps and have it completely on the free reel, that's very silly because you're going to make a lot of mistakes when jumping. especially learning, so you want to make sure you have your thumb on the reel as much as you can throughout the whole kind of feeling that you know, you know, my jig is going too fast, did I hit the water too soon? to be able to stop it when possible so when we fish this current here it's flowing pretty constant so what I want to do when I'm fishing with this jig that I have is a constant current coming in and pushing my line up lifts my jig and it's bringing it down me, so basically all I do is keep the rod tip up and then the only time I really use the reel is to tighten the slack enough until I can get the bow out of the line where it's kind of like a bow controlled and many of these fish will hit you instantly as soon as you pull them from the shore.

You have to catch that slack real quick once you know you're on the bottom because that's when they bite it, these fish see it instantly and they'll jump on it if I'm sitting here and you know, I pick it up like this and then I drop it . I've got all this slack now my line nothing's going to cause that bite there basically this is the phone line to the fish if it's too flimsy and there's too much slack there I'll never transmit my call to them basically if it's nice and tight you know like a string, you will feel every bite of it as soon as they touch it.

I can feel myself coming over sand, rock, mud, stumps, brush piles, grass, you, you. You should feel all you need to if you keep it nice and tight with a lot of current here, if you are casting light tackle you really need to focus on really stable water out of the main current path, that way the bait has time. to release I like to fish a little stronger current, so I cast this half ounce jig a lot. I'll throw a 3/4 ounce jig that will get me through that current faster if you throw a light jig into fast moving water, it's just going to pick it up and carry it down.

The fish are down there on the bottom because they can get under any type of big cover that's on the bottom and that current will basically break up. them or break them, so what I want to do with this jig is increase its weight that way I can penetrate very quickly through the current ofthat way it doesn't mess up as much as soon as it hits the bottom I want to click on my reel and then just slowly skip it down in 3 or 4 seconds at the bottom if it doesn't get hit I'll pick it up again and do another cast um and You can be really effective with the heavier weight here because you're getting to the bottom a lot quicker than, say, if you're throwing a quarter ounce or like a little spinning jig which definitely has its time and place, but here you know you're a lot more effective with a heavier jig and you can move much faster and basically fish hard and get more cast which means more fish and that's what we do.

We're looking for Biging God, Real Tyler, real, yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that wobbly way was absolutely horrible, I'm sorry, but uh, that's five pounds , it's five, come on, come on, oh man, this is a stud, oh, beauty, beauty. beautiful guys awesome okay five quid thanks for coming to play I really appreciate it woohoo well omg what a video I hope you enjoyed if you stayed to the end and haven't subscribed yet go ahead and hit the subscribe button and if you want to see two videos that are very similar to this one and that have to do with the skirt material in both the Jigs and the spinner baits and the bladed jigs.

I'll leave that video here in the corner talking about when and how to trim your skirts and If you want to learn more about bass fishing hook sets, how to hook a frog on a jig on a drop shot, I talk about each type of hook in this video. My name is Tyler, as always, it has been a pleasure and we. See you next time here on trf