I was out fishing for wallies today with hair jigs and I thought to myself, would this technique work with a silicone skirted jig for bass?

Don't know what you mean by ripping, but stroking a jig is common on my home waters during the dog days.  That's where you jerk the jig 2-3 ft. off the bottom and follow it back down on a semi-slack line.  The same retrieve works well with lipless cranks in late summer.

Same idea I guess. When you "rip" a jig you pull up on the rod almost like a hook set then let it drop. Good reaction strike technique.

I've tried it without success with jigs. It has worked for me with senkos

I don't do it as a regular part of my retrieve, but I swing a lot on anything that doesn't feel right, so in a way I guess I am doing it. I always follow it down and let it settle before continuing my main retrieve of small drags/hops.

Is it a great tactic on weebeds/grass, where a bass can't get to it if it's hopped 6 inches because it would still be buried. I use it as a pitching and flipping retrieve oftentimes.  

I yoyo my traps a lot and have good success doing it. As for jigs I have had some success stroking them off the bottom, but not as much as with traps. Unless you count ripping swim jigs from weeds, like your setting the hook, that's a killer technique.  

Stroking jigs and flutter spoons is a big technique on Lake Fork during the summer.  I went to a Gary Dobyns/Mark Pack seminar a couple of years ago and they talked a lot about it.

i havent tried ripping with anything...seems like an.exhausting pattern...when i do try i pop the rod.tip quickly just to get it off the weeds.

I saw Doug Stange use that technique with some sort of lipless rapala crank bait for smallies on the In-Fisherman show.  He was really ripping it too, almost looked like he was setting the hook with each rip.  Of course he was catching fish too

Rule 1 to stroking a jig........you don't tell people you are stroking a jig.

Rule 1 to stroking a jig........you don't tell people you are stroking a jig.

 

Or anything else for that matter 

 

Now carry on with this great topic 

Rule 1 to stroking a jig........you don't tell people you are stroking a jig.

Rule #2 to stroking a jig...you can be seen a mile away doing it.

Very deadly during the dog days of summer!

not much is a secret anymore......thats for sure.

I saw Doug Stange use that technique with some sort of lipless rapala crank bait for smallies on the In-Fisherman show.  He was really ripping it too, almost looked like he was setting the hook with each rip.  Of course he was catching fish too

 

 

  I think I saw that episode.  Actually, I think Doug Stange does that a lot in that In-Fisherman show.  He makes reeling in his lures exciting every time. lol.  

I will rip a cacoho minnow or fluke pretty high, with good success. It's a technique that is deadly with redfish. I usually pop it once, let it settle, then hit it twice quickly. I'll let it settle for 30 seconds or so then do it again. Fishing from the shore, I've caught quite a few bass, reds and specks right at the shoreline, as they were following it in.

I will rip a cacoho minnow or fluke pretty high, with good success. It's a technique that is deadly with redfish. I usually pop it once, let it settle, then hit it twice quickly. I'll let it settle for 30 seconds or so then do it again. Fishing from the shore, I've caught quite a few bass, reds and specks right at the shoreline, as they were following it in.

I fish as Texas Rig the same way! If they don't want it slow, pick up the pace!

Works great in grass.  If I start hanging up I reel a little faster.