I've always heard people talk about jigs. Seen them fish jigs.  Catch fish on jigs.  Never had any real success (due to not knowing how to fish them).  Well, thanks to Glenn and some others on this forum I went out this afternoon and caught some nice bass on a black/blue jig!  I do have one question though.  After hooking up, and landing, I noticed that all the fish I hooked were hooked in the top of the mouth, right between the eyes.  I am curious why, what I did wrong, and how this affects the bass (brain damage?).  They all seemed to swim away just fine but the water is muddy so I couldn't follow them for more than a foot or two.  Thanks!

You didn't do anything wrong, if anything you did everything right! The reason you got em through the nose is because when the jig is sitting on the bottom the hook is sitting straight up so when they come and get it they go nose down and it gets em right between the eyes. It doesn't hurt them or anything. A bass brain is pea sized at best. And I think it sits further back in their head. If you have ever fished a stand up shakey head or any other stand up jig the hook up is the same way.

Oh okay.  Thanks for the reply.  I'm a die hard t-rig guy so it's alien to me to hook them anywhere other than in the side of the mouth or the stomach.

top of the mouth is excatley where u want to get them!

How you hook a bass tells you how aggressive the bass was when it strikes the lure.

Jigs are small compact lures and bass tend to strike a jig to kill it, they does this by engulfing the jig into the back of the mouth and crunch down with the crunchers located in the back of the mouth. If you hook set at the moment the bass is killing the jig, you hook it in the rough of the mouth.

2 other factors in play; the angle the jig is down and how far away it is when you make the hook set. The more verticle the jig is; straight down or about a 45 degree angle out, you are pulling the jig upwards and this also tends to hook the rough of the mouth. The more horizontal the jig is or further away the angle tends to be parallel or down at a angle less than 30 degree from the water surface, the less likely you will hook the bass in the rough of the mouth, unless you hook set immediately and what you should do!

Tom

PS; you can kill a bass with a hook through the brain , it's rare but it does happen.

That's the best place to hook a bass -- tough for the hook to come out of there. Congrats on some good hooksets!

There brain is located just behind there eyes...no worries.

top of the mouth is excatley where u want to get them!

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Yup that's where you want it!