@WRB the difference is you're dragging the jig, I hopping/stroking it.

 

Your technique is pretty much like @A-Jay y'all are trying to keep your jig or t-rig inconspicuous. I'm trying to draw attention to mine, I want it to stand out. 

 

It's kinda like dragging a Carolina Rig, some guys drag it with the rod low & a sideways motion. While others drag it with the rod tip up.

 

Both are highly effective ?

When you cast the jig it hits the water and falls/swims down through it until a bass stops the fall or it hits bottom. The line jumps slack when the jig stops falling. Reeling to move or take up slack with the rod tip downward you can hook set immediately if you detect slight tension or line movement without dropping the rod tip and taking up slack to hook set.

Working a jig down hill with the reel is the same as hoping the jig with the rod vs pulling  the jig off the bottom and letting the jig fall/swim back down a natural crawdad escape movement.

Flat structure or uphill structure rod hopes lift the jig off the bottom where dragging doesn’t. Uphill and flat bottom I use the rod more to reduce snagging but still start the hook set with the reel. 

For this reason my preference is to use T-rigged soft plastic with bullet weight and bead on more flat or uphill terrain. It’s the difference between jig water and worm water. Everyone has their own techniques that works where you fish.

you can’t get a hook set if can’t detect the strike and that is why I controlling line slack to keep in touch with the jig or worm.

Tom 

 

 

 

 

On 11/19/2021 at 10:07 AM, WRB said:

you can’t get a hook set if can’t detect the strike and that is why I controlling line slack to keep in touch with the jig or worm.

Tom 

 

I do the same thing but with my rod tip up.

 

The length of time required to drop the rod, reel any slack, & set the hook is just as fast.

 

If at all possible I fish uphill, this allows my lure to maintain bottom constant all the way back to the boat.

 

It's been said bass hit the lure on the fall, I'm letting it fall multiple times.

 

A fleeing crawfish flips it's tail, lifting it off the bottom, & propelling it forward. It does this 3-4 times in rapid succession. Each time it moves higher off the bottom & foward.

 

Hopping/stroking it looks eerily similar.

On 11/17/2021 at 1:42 AM, CrashVector said:

I think the majority of the hard hook sets on yt are just to make it look good on camera to get views.

 

I've NEVER set the hook like an Olympic weightlifter trying clean and jerk a 10lb fish out the water.

 

I feel the fish bite, and just quickly sweep my rod.

 

I use mono lots.

 

In fact, only two of my setups have braid on them, everything else has mono.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. To piggyback on what I posted earlier, What comes natural to every one of you does not work for me. Less emphasis should be placed on the force, and more on the mechanics of the hookset. The gear should be of the least concern. 

3 hours ago, slonezp said:

I don't necessarily disagree with you. To piggyback on what I posted earlier, What comes natural to every one of you does not work for me. Less emphasis should be placed on the force, and more on the mechanics of the hookset. The gear should be of the least concern. 

Thats pretty much what I'm saying.  A huge bass is 13-15 lbs tops.  There's no need to jack them like you're setting the hook into a whale...especially if you plan to release them, you'll be releasing them injured from unnecessarily forceful hook setting.

 

I'm not an peta advocate, but I DO believe in being as humane as possible.  These are beautiful animals that you, and I, are poking holes in for entertainment.  I'd prefer to cause them as little injury and trauma as possible...that's all I'm saying.

 

I'm just a careful guy when it comes to the animals I harvest.  I hunt too, and I'm just as careful to ensure the animals suffer the least possible amount...it's why I don't bow hunt.

 

Fishing, that bass has to eat once you put it back.  Can't feel too great to have a 1/4" hole in the roof his mouth or through his tongue or gill plate bc somebody was showing off for a yt video and tried to rip his head off on the hookset to try and make it look good.

On 11/19/2021 at 5:12 AM, Catt said:

@WRB the difference is you're dragging the jig, I hopping/stroking it.

 

Your technique is pretty much like @A-Jay y'all are trying to keep your jig or t-rig inconspicuous. I'm trying to draw attention to mine, I want it to stand out. 

 

It's kinda like dragging a Carolina Rig, some guys drag it with the rod low & a sideways motion. While others drag it with the rod tip up.

 

Both are highly effective ?

I'm a hop-HOP guy.

 

Small hop...big hop.  It's how I fish my pit boss lures too.