Basstrike Fishing Blog

Jig fishing is one of the most great way of bass fishing. This is because that jig gets the large bass to bite, more than most other bass baits. The jig is the hardest bass lure baits to handle, if you need to catch the trophy bass, you will need to more practice. You won’t be expert in bass fishing jig overnight, but once you do well in it , you will catch the bass by using them easily.

A jig is basically a lead head shaped into a hook, with hair skirt or silicone rubber attached around the collar of the jig head with an elastic band or tied with wire or thread. The jigs have different shaped heads for various functions. You will see a jig is always combine with a trailer. The types of the hooks are depend on the fish you’d like to catch. They may be a light wire with little round bends or heavy cables for removing the fish from the cover. Most skirted jigs feature hair to acts as a deflector for the hook point to prevent it from snagging on grass, wood, or other thing in water. It is not totally snagged proof, but it is extremely effective to keep the jig coming through cover without getting hung.

Flipping Jigs

These jigs are made to brush, wood and jig head. Flipping jigs usually from 10 to 28g, and have a solid and heavy-duty gauge hook. The perfect head shape should be something compact, preferably with a recessed line tie. The weed gauge on the flipping jig must as well be a little solid than other jig types to avoid the jig from hook up. The chunks, craw and creatures all can be the best flipping jig trailers.

Casting Jigs

Perfect casting jig must be 10 to 14g and have around a flat bottom head to resist the bottom. They should as well have a normal or wire weed guard of average strength. Casting jig lures are perfect multi-purpose jigs and can be fished with or with no rattle. The creatures, craws, and grubs can be the perfect trailers for the casting jigs. If you want to fishing in sea, you can choose the saltwater casting jigs which soak in saltwater when they produce.

Finesse Jigs

Finesse jig outshines in places with lesser fish, heavy fishing pressure, and in cold water. They are usually 5 to 7g, and come with finesse or spider cut skirts and a finesse light wire hook. Finesse jig heads usually have a compact head or ball-shaped heads and can be matching with a small craw or creature lure as trailer lure.

Football Jigs

As to fishing along the rocky bottoms, a football jig pigskin-shaped head lets it spin over the rocks and debris avoid to fall into the cracks. The perfect head weights for football jig vary from 10 to 28g, and they must have a fuller skirt and sharp wide gap hook. A football jig usually with a weedless jig head, however, many fishermen also redecorate them with fishing lighter cover to guarantee a better hookup. The finest football jigs trailers are twin-tailed grubs, craws, skirted grubs and full-size creature lures.

Swim Jigs

Swim jig fishing is one of the latest popular lure fishing to precisely dragging a jig through a water column, like lipless crank or spinnerbait. The ideal swim jig varies from 7 to 14g, has a lighter weed guard, and has bullet-shaped head to slide her around and through cover. Because swim jig is moving when the bass bites, they don’t require nearly as heavy a hook — you need something narrow and sharp for greatest penetration. The perfect swim jig trailers should with lots of action like paddle tails, plastic grubs, or other plastic lures.

Grass Jigs

Grass can ruin most any presentation, and some jigs stand out in fishing the green stuff. The sizes of grass jigs usually from 7 to 14g, and nearly constantly have a conical head with a line tie near the top. This lets them penetrate the grass better, without collecting grass. Grass jig is also fished on heavy tackle, so it must as well have a solid heavy wire hook. Grass jig trailers should be compact and simple so that it won’t to hook on the grass.

Useful Tips for Jig Fishing

Choose The Correct Trailer
It is important to choose a right trailer for jig fishing, when to choose the trailer you should think about the color, shad and function, because it is the backbone of a jig. You can use brown-and-orange, brown-and-green pumpkin or black-and-blue soft plastic trailers jigs when catch the crawfish fed bass. As the colors are crawfish-imitating colors. You can use white, blue or gray soft plastic trailers jigs when you want to catch the bass around the rocks.

Choose The Right Tackles
A jig fishing usually choose a heavy action or extra-heavy action rod a high gear ratio reel. With a faster gear rated reel, you are able to pick up a lot of line quicker when a bass bites the jig.

Choose The Matched Line
We recommend fluorocarbon line to increased sensitivity and abrasion resistance. Fluorocarbon helps you distinguish between a bass engulfing your jig or the jig hitting a rock and minimizes snap when the line rubbing against rocks.

Think About The Weather
On cloudy days with a slight breeze, attract the bass to bite your jig by hopping it or banging it into the rocks. On sunny days, the bass usually hide under the rock, so crawl a football jig over the rocks with short pulls of your rod and pause the lure for a couple of seconds to attract bass to bite.

Think Football For Bass On The Rocks
The head design of a football jig allows the lure to easily roll over rock and rubble without snagging. It is a good idea to use a football jig to catch different kinds of bass hide under the rock. Choose a jig with a 90-degree angle on the jig eye which allows the lure to roll over rocks easier.