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There are many different brands of jigging spoons on the market today
to choose from and most of them
work as well as any others that you might select from all the
different manufacturers but there is always an
exception to the rule, right?
While recently on a fishing business trip in California a fellow (a
former bass fishing school student of
mine whom I spent 3-days on the water with) introduced these jigging
spoons to me, and let me tell you:
"You won’t find any better than these!" They have such a
unique design, ultra sharp hooks, and the different
color combinations are great, anyway, when I got back home to Lake
Champlain and Lake George, NY I
headed straight for the water to give them a try. I caught a limit in
the first two hours of using these jigging
spoons with one of the bass weighing a solid 6 lbs. (a smallmouth
bass). And since then I always have
one rigged up on one of my rods.....
Now, there are several different patterns you can apply when fishing a
jigging spoon while fishing
suspended fish, bottom fish, structure fish, and in and around
vegetation just to name a few....
SUSPENDED
BASS: Suspended bass are probably the most difficult
bass you’ll ever fish. Many anglers
use several different methods and lures to fish suspended bass but, a
jigging spoon can prove to be as
productive as any type of bait you can ever use in this situation.
Now, I will suggest how I use a jigging
spoon with suspended fish but keep in mind that every angler seems to
develop his or her own little touch,
flare, or certain technique that suits him or her with any bait used.
f
I fish suspended bass whether it be over tree tops, along bluffs or
cliffs, or any structure that may be
in the water where suspended bass are I will vertically drop the
jigging spoon straight down just below the
suspended bass and let it pause for a moment. Then using my rod to do
the work, I’ll lift the tip of the rod
about 2 feet, drop the tip about a foot, lift the tip another 2 feet,
drop the tip about a foot and repeat this
technique until the rod tip is usually up to a 10 o’clock position.
Then, while keeping the slack out of the
line I will slowly drop the tip back close to the water surface and
start again! Sometimes you will feel a
little pressure instead of solid hits, but as the ole’ saying goes!
"When in doubt?..SET THE HOOK!"
I
strongly feel that if you give this a try (not just for 5 minutes),
but if you really give this pattern a honest
try I’m sure that you won’t be disappointed at all!
BOTTOM
BASS: Bottom bass fishing with a jigging spoon again,
can prove to be a highly productive
technique you should try. Now, before we fish for bottom bass we want
to make sure of what’s on the bottom
as far as vegetation and structure because we probably won’t use a
open exposed treble hook if there is lots
of stuff to get hooked up on, (get the picture?). If there are lots of
obstructions to get hung up on, switch to a
"weedless jigging spoon" instead of using the open exposed
treble hook.
There are several different techniques to use when fishing bottom bass
with a jigging spoon and I will
share a couple with you to get you started. The first one would be to
vertically drop the jigging spoon and let
it hit the bottom. Lightly twitch the rod tip, making the jigging
spoon dance around the bottom, then let it lay
still for a moment, and repeat the technique.........I have caught
small and large largemouth, smallmouth,
and spotted bass using this technique (one I remember being a 7.8oz
largemouth.).
The second technique would be to make long casts and slowly retrieve
the jigging spoon back to the
boat. I’m quite sure that if you use this technique you won’t go
home empty handed.
FISHING
VEGETATION: There are two techniques I will use when
fishing in and around scattered or thick
vegetation. The first one I will use will be especially for thicker
vegetation areas. I will tie on a "weedless"
jigging spoon and even apply a trailer (plastic grub, 1/2 of a plastic
worm, plastic crawl, or just about
anything used for a trailer) and make a cast letting the jigging spoon
fall "ON TOP" of the thick vegetation.
After letting it set still for a moment I’ll start to drag it slowly
back towards the boat with a "stop & go"
technique. All I can say is HOLD ON!.... I can’t tell you how many
times I’ve had big bass come up and
grab the lure.
The second technique I’d use around vegetation would be using the
same bait but now instead of
dragging the bait on top, let it fall in the open pockets of the
vegetation, and once again, HOLD ON!
I
can’t really tell you in so many words of how great a jigging spoon
can be for bass fishing, but I can
promise that if you gave these jigging spoons a good honest try you’ll
surely find these to be one of the
best baits you will ever use for not only quality, but for quantity as
well. I definitely teach all my students
while attending my 3-day bass fishing school how to use these baits
because they have most definitely
proven themselves to be one of the top universal bass baits you’ll
find on today’s market.
If you have any
questions concerning jigging spoons or have any questions about bass
fishing in general
please don’t hesitate to contact me at my email address at: rlbrown@capital.net
or you can visit my
web sites at: www.capital.net/~rlbrown
and at www.fishing-boating.com/basscoach
or you can call me at (518) 597-4240.
Until next time! Take
Care & God Bless.......
"The Bass Coach"...Roger Lee Brown
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