Fishing a jig

Hi Guys,

Can anyone tell me if a jig works for bass in S.A. and if it does how would I fish it and what is the best months to try it out, colours ect.

I know Johanvc said he tried it at vasfontein the other day, maybe Johan can give me some info on how to...

Any help welcome.

Regards

Skaap-tjop

I've tried jigs before but never really had any pos results, hence I don't use them anymore, I found (Johanvc's introduction) an all in one bait, (spinner, jig, jerk, etc bait) called the "Chatterbait", these things really work, just make sure that you get the one from the company with the same name.  Have tried other makes, Booyah, but no reaction, Chatterbait, well caught fish where nothing else worked for many a trip...

There's another post on this with a link to the chatterbait website, have a look, well worth it.

As far as time of year goes, It's winter or very close to that in any case so fishing has gone down a tad to very much so slow, extremely slow (deadstick DA JIG slow) is the way to go, cast it leave it (for about three minutes) and then only twitch it once or twice and leave it again for some time, Loams had another piece of advice called the smoke technique if I'm not mistaken, Cast, light a smoke, take three drags, twitch twice, take another four drags, twitch twice and so forth.

Colour wise, well, the water colour and depth the fish are lying around talking to their buds should indicate the colours that you should use.... There's been some posts on that around as well.

LGF

 

Jigs are the best bait to use during winter. But let conditions dictate how you need to fish. You will find that some day’s fish want faster moving baits so power fishing (Spinners, Chatter and crank baits) will work. Then again you have your slow days where fish want the lure put right in from of them or even in the mouth. Then jigs will work. Use dark colors during winter as the normal rule for bass fishing change during winter. Also have a look on http://www.bassresource.com for some articles. They have some hot jigging techniques

 

The way i fish a jig is put it right in to the Structure and wait about 5 sec then bounce it. Then wait 5 sec then bounce it again till you get it back to the side. Then cast or pitch it again

Guys

I've just read an interesting article on why Senko's, Finesse worms and the likes work so well in Winter (for the other guys, not for me) and here is the short of it. 

During winter not only the bass' metabolism slows down, all the aquatic creatures have the same slowing down of metabolisms, this means that even the baitfish aren't darting around back and forth they are merely suspended in a straight line and this is what the bass' see, a still straight line (senko).  Now the most crucial part of this is the STILL part and not so much the straight part, as crab like baits will also work well, thing is keep it still and only twitch the bait very lightly after every 2-3 minutes.

Lastly the article spoke of pressure bites, meaning that the bass will have the lure in it's mouth but it won't give you the normal sensation/feeling like when they strike with their summer agression.  It was expalined that one should put a rubber band over ones index finger and the other side over ones thumb, then move your thumb and index finger away from each other and that would almost feel like a pressure bite, sort of the line just gets heavy.

Another thing is to hook the senko's and the likes in such a manner and with the correct hook, in order for the senko to fall to the bottom in a horisontal line and not to tip over to the front or rear and shoot down to the bottom, check the line as strikes on the drop can happen.

Hope this helps, and the next time I'm going I'm going to surely try Loams' smoke technique..... hehehehe, thanks Loams.

LGF

 

Little Green Fish wrote:

Lastly the article spoke of pressure bites, meaning that the bass will have the lure in it's mouth but it won't give you the normal sensation/feeling like when they strike with their summer agression. 

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This is where superlines come into their own

Anyway, I think for finesse fishing, the best way is to get floating worms and rig it with a small split shot sinker. This way the tail will stand up and it's nose will be buried, waving the tail in the current. Then twitch it like LGF says every 2 minutes or so. But it's not easy to fish like that at all.... I struggle with the patience.......

Loams

That is so true, it's extremely difficult to fish that slow, so that's why I'm going to take four packs of smokes with the next time I go out.....

CAST

LIGHT A SMOKE

TAKE FOUR DRAGS (SLOW DRAGS)

TWITCH BAIT LIGHTLY

TAKE FOUR DRAGS (SLOWER THAN BEFORE)

TWITCH BAIT SLIGHTLY

TAKE FOUR DRAGS (EVEN SLOWER THAN BEFORE)

and so on.......

I should get one LGF by the second pack........

LGF