Looking through my tackle box when I got to the lake I was trying to decide what I should start with, after a few minutes I decided to tie on and throw a jig. I do not care what conditions you are faced with you cannot go wrong when you are fishing a jig for bass. Let’s talk about 5 ways to fish a jig for bass throughout the season.
Swim Jigs
Swim Jigs have been one of the top choices the last few years when it comes to jigs and bass fishing. What started as an accident has now turned out to be a great tactic to give bass a different look at jigs and how they are fished. How many times has this happened to you? You make a cast that falls short of your target so instead of fishing the jig back to the boat you start to reel the jig right back to the boat. As the jig gets closer to the boat you see a bass follow the jig your first instinct is to stop the jig and when you do that the bass stops, turns and swims away. After seeing this a few times some pros got the idea to fish the jig all the way back to the boat this way and to their surprise they started to trigger strikes and catch bass. Thus the swim jig tactic was born. What started out as a regular bass jig has now changed to a specialty swim jigs that are on the market, my choice for this tactic is to use an Outkast Swim Jig. To read the complete story on Pro Bass Networks click here.
Story by Scott M. Peterson