Hook2Jaw

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Got on a few at my local public fishing area yesterday after work, which is surprising. Normally I'm doing good if I manage one fish out of the three ponds ever since they opened Georgia PFAs to anyone with a license. It used to also require a WMA permit, which, of course, costs a smidge more money and kept a lot of folks out. Now, the place is swarmed with bank fishermen and a few boats and most of them have a bucket to toss whatever gets caught into them. It's the place I go to figure out if a new bait will catch fish, considering they're so pressured and scarce. Well, I've recently fallen in love with jigs, landing my personal best and probably my fifth jig fish a few weeks back on a private, unpressured body. I wanted to see if they'd pass the test against very wary bass. The old black and blue bankroll jig and Christie craw did well. Four fish in three hours, which is whipping them for that spot. This girl fought hard from 20' down to several jumps and a tailwalk from about 30 yards out. @Bluebasser86 sorry about your boat, broheim. The only cylinders I blow are in my calf muscles, but then again, the kayak tops out at 7mph!

Gotta love this forum, so much help, and not one link to the jig topic! Thanks again, guys! I'm still not decided on what I'm going with, but that big bite baits craw looks amazing and I'm really feeling that color to imitate local crabs. It's time for redfish on a bass jig!

That's probably exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks, Chop! Gonna check it out right now. As soon as you mentioned bright blue, I was like, heck yeah!

So, I like to fish inshore as well for redfish, speckled trout, and flounder. I can catch tons of fish with shrimp and baiitfish imitators, but... I know a spot where the reds swarm crabs, and they won't touch anything else when they're doing so. The crabs I'm looking to imitate are blue crabs, and they're typically a mixture of dark brown and greenish on their bodies, but their pincers are blue. So as far as the actual jig goes, green pumpkin and brown should do just fine, but does anyone know of any trailers that come in brown/blue or green pumpkin and blue?

Awesome, you guys have been tearing them up!

Hit eBay and buy every Dancin' Eel you see. Not really. Do not do that. Grab some bullet weights for Texas rigging, and a bag of beads and swivels for Carolina rigging.

Nothing special besides the four hours I devoted to this fish in the morning slinging the Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money once again. I got her to look at the YUM Craw Chunk in Craw quite a few times, but she never committed. Returned that afternoon and slapped on a Christie Craw in Watermelon Red Flake and she hammered it on the first cast. Picky girl.

...those daggum crankbaits will be getting thrown more this year. I bought a good number of squarebills telling myself I would fish them more last year, but that never really happened.

Most definitely a 5" YUM Dinger Texas rigged, weightless.

I've just gotten into jig fishing myself with heavy success, I kept things simple with the beginnings of my jig plano box. Booyah Boo Jigs, both in 3/8oz, one black and blue and one black brown spice. I use these for cover and moderate grass. Pitching, mostly. Booyah Bankroll Jigs, both 1/2oz, one in black and blue and the other in money. I use these in deeper water, making long casts and doing my best crawfish impression. These jigs do a phenomenal job of angling the trailer up. As for trailers the YUM Craw Chunk in black and blue and crawdad. I settled on these because they're 2.99 a pack and YUM baits have always delivered for me. Good luck!

That's a good looking smallie, BB86. Also a solid lmb by Dorado. I've still never caught a fish at night.

Tom, I've had success actually sliding the hook eye into the plastic and covering the knot as well. Another added benefit has been I pick up less grass taking a bigger initial bite of worm and the places I fish are absolutely chock full of grass. I've saved many Yamamoto senkos Texas rigging in this fashion, as the plastic often takes the path of least resistance and slides up the line akin to a line through swimbait.

Thanks again, guys! I'm sure you will. The only times I've hooked up with big girls has been doing some outlaw fishing in a rarely fished old sand pit beside my local river, and more recently in a hardly fished pond I actually have permission to piddle in. I still consider two of my river fish in the same league as that big girl just because of how big they were in comparison to the usual.

That is an awesome fish. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks everyone! It's nice to feel welcome. It feels good man, I've fished since I could hold a pole, but really got serious last spring and I've been an every weekend machine since. I've lost several fish in the dd size range since that point and finally landing this one.. I was just so content after the catch that I just sat down on the bank and appreciated the moment for a good five minutes. I've always enjoyed writing and I'll do my best to lay out a few more fishing stories as I come upon them!

The week before I had big girls chasing smaller bass to the bank, and one actually hit a dink in the face and knocked the hook on through her mouth, leaving her on the line and got hooked herself. Two bass, one hook. It'll never happen again like that, I bet. So my toad could have very well swallowed a ball of the football largemouth variety. Thanks for the compliments, guys!

10 pounds, 5 ounces on the scale beating my personal best by a lot. Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money YUM Craw Chunk in Craw

Hi guys, I've been lurking these forums for quite some time and actually set up my account early last week. I started to post a greeting and thank you all for the excellent content posted here but it just didn't feel right until Friday, at 3 PM, after working through some new techniques that I'd never tried before. I've always been primarily a finesse style fisherman, and I'm really big on my spinning reels and weightless senkos styled worms. Friday, I decided to try out casting jigs. I'm familiar with weighted Texas rigs, so I applied every retrieval technique I could come up with throughout the day and caught many dinks and a nice three pounder. Then, I casted deep where the old creek channel of the pond I was fishing in cut through before it was dammed up. My Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money with a YUM Craw Chunk in Craw settled to the bottom and I gave my bait two subtle pops with my rod to emulate a crawfish darting. I reeled my slack. The dinks had been producing the machine gun tictictic all day. This time, there was a solid thump. I leaned into my hookset and after what felt like minutes, but was probably less than one, I landed my first double digit bass. 10 pounds, 5 ounces on the scale. I now fully believe in the power of the jig.