JacobK

I forgot who specifically posted this but i read it somewhere on bass resource. "Make your jig imitate a crayfish, so move it like you think a crayfish would move." I take that theory and put it to use with majority of my soft plastic uses. I drag my crayfish/lizards slowly. i'll use my worms slow & let them sink naturally and when on the bottom i'll just give them a little hop. but really its all in how the fish would like it that day. sometimes they're inactive and the slow style of fishing will keep the lure in their face longer. other days they'll want it fast just start your trip by fishing both ways until you figure out.

buzzbait, hollow body frog or soft plastic frog; bump the structure and wait for a show.

also when i'm too lazy to flip/pitch a jig i'll flip a weightless wacky rigged senko into pockets. but SHHHHHHHH don't tell anyone its one of my favorite things to do.

the jig bite around here usually feels like a freight train is on the other end of the line. but if the bite is more subtle just stare at your line. naturally your jig wont fall left or right just vertically so any sudden movement or sideways travel just set the hook, hooksets are free. i find it easier to see my line (12lb yozuri hybrid in green) with my polarized glasses on. it really helps if your line/rod combo is higher quality too so you'll have more sensitivity. i've gone from a BPS bionic blade to a st croix mojo bass and its a WORLD of difference. honestly i think the rod makes a HUGE difference. I was fishing my mojo bass and a 3/8 ounce jig under a small bridge, then after a few casts i used my buddy's st croix legend elite flippin under the SAME bridge, i felt structure that i didnt even know existed with the mojo rod. all that expensive equipment aside, 95% of my jig bites the fish just ATTACK the lure.

i usually use them till they have no arms or they can't stay on the hook anymore, i always superglue them if they cant stay on the hook but have arms left.

lamar odom? gary fisher? pau gasol!? the lakers are actually full of decent talent.

caught on a wacky jig//finesse worm, i didn't wanna touch it so i had my buddy hold it while i snapped the picture.

monster!!!

how ironic i just had a conversation with my good friend about this subject today. i felt like i had too many hobbies and if i quit some of them i might become proficient in one of them. ;D here are a few of my hobbies: 0) Fishing 1) Acoustic Guitar 2) Basketball 3) Computers (gaming & multimedia) 4) home entertainment 5) Automobiles 6) Photography (i recently sold off majority of my equipment) 7) Fashion (nothing too wild, i'm just not too interested in wearing my pants below my waist and a shirt big enough to be a dress, i also know how to tie a tie ) I'm the jack of all trades, master of none. ;D ;D

i love the jig/worm bite when you just feel that THUMP THUMP THUMP and WHAM just cross their eyes with a "bill dance" hook set. ;D ;D ;D

Andrew, Take that trigger rod you found & throw a baitcast reel on it and start learning how to pitch & flip. It seems you primarily fish metro's marsh side and there are a few simple patterns to that side, the docks are a little bit different. for the marsh: 1) (you already figured it out) fish slowly with a texas rigged worm. 2) flipping weightless wacky senkos into holes 3) topwater frog/ 4) cast a spinnerbait & burn it almost to shore and KILL it right at the end of the weeds. for the docks: 1) slow roll a spinnerbait so it bumps the bottom 2) texas rigged crayfish 3) shakey head or a wacky jig those are a few of the easier patterns for metro beach, if i bump into you again i'll show you some more nifty tricks, although you probably have figured them out already.

holy cow that thing is bulging! :-? we were catching MASSIVE rockbass on my local inland lake this weekend, the rockbass were big enough to hit a 3/8 ounce jig & ragetail lobster

must be the new coffee scent!

sweet a new video to study!!!

nice! i went to BPS tonight just to randomly shop and i TOTALLY forgot my ticket. got there and saw everyone in a line waiting to hand them in and i'm like. :sigh: living 30 minutes away i figured it wasn't worth the trip back. :'(

i've caught a couple off of the anaconda, but none off the spacemonkey YET. I just haven't been able to put the lobster down because honestly i'm hooked on jig fishing at the moment. :) :D

caught 2 more today off of the jig & lobster, I dedicate these fish to big-O, RW, and LBH ;D LBH i still have your jig fishing video on my hard drive. i ran out of lobsters today so i had to go buy another pack

i've used rage tail, culprit, yum, ***, berkley and probably a few more i can't remember off the top of my head. they all seem to catch the same for me. : but the rage tails are probably the most versatile because you can do so much more with them.

I've had great success with a 3/8 ounce football head jig, with a ragetail lobster trailer. rage tail lobster > all trailers it seems to have the most action and they have the best color selection. jig wise just pick one with a nice hook i don't even remember the brand of my football heads but they all have gamakatsu hooks. color wise just pick whatever you like or try to "match the hatch" i usually go for darker colors.

few steps ahead of you RW, i've been secretly studying your posts and had tons of success with the anaconda & space monkey but i was especially excited with these fish because they were my first decent jig fish.

I had my first day with productive jig fishing. Before hand i had only caught a 20" northern pike and a 8" lmb. Today i was throwing a gander mt football head black & blue with a rage tail lobster in big tex color and they wont let that thing go! i probably caught about 10 in a couple hours fishing parallel to the bank. here are a few pictures ignore the silly faces i was extremely excited ;D

caught my first smallie of the year decent sized guy i'm guessing maybe 2 1/2 pounds? and i upgraded my rod, but i don't have enough for a new reel haha i'm slowly getting there. ;D and yes thats a hello kitty toy hanging from my tow hook. I'm so JDM ;D

i was reading and thinking hrmm interesting approach whispering to feel vibrations then when i got to the part about the rod crying i felt like i wanted to cry. it was like getting rick rolled but worst.

So if you guys haven't heard yet Gander Mountain has a 50% off green tag sale. Well that triggered a relapse with the bait monkey so i went and picked up some skirtless jigs a few packs of GYCB Hula grubs, another SPRO bronze eyed frog and last but not least a Lucky Craft Slender Pointer, 112MR. After my splurge at Gander, I went home geared up and headed for our local metro park which consists of 4 rather large inland lakes. I only stayed out for about an hour just trying out some of the new lures i had acquired over winter such as the TruTungsten 4" Bluegill. Well after getting tired of chucking the bluegill I tied on my newly acquired Pointer and tossed her out. Being that its spring time i decided on one hard jerk to get it to dive and i let it suspend for about 15 seconds. Right as my count was on 15 and i was ready to give it another jerk something hit it HARD! I gave it a hard hook set and the fight begun. it made a hard run towards a log but i was able to horse it away, so then it decided to make an extremely fast run towards shore, i was able to reel in the slack fast enough and when it was close enough for me to see i realized that it was a rather large Northern Pike So at this point I'm thinking W T F?! I was able to bring the Pike in and lift it onto shore and right when i thought i was safe, i heard a loud SNAP and just like that my 25lb PowerPro braid was cut by his razor sharp teeth So now i'm running around the bank chasing this 35inch Pike who is ticked off because he has my 20 dollar Lucky Craft Pointer in his mouth and i'm ticked off because my LC is in his mouth ;D Anyway after a few seconds he kinda gives up and im able to grab hold of him with a towel, as i assess the situation i realize pike have teeth ;D so i reach for my needle nose pliers and to my surprise they're GONE!! and now i'm pretty worried because i don't wanna risk any of my fingers. i dig through my bag only to find a pair of scissors. So like any other guy out there i use the scissors as needle nose and am able to get my pointer free, which was unharmed! and released the Pike back into the lake to live another day. Stupid ole me left my phone in the car (only camera) so i don't have any pictures of the Pike but i snapped some pictures of the lake and my gear.

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