The number one rule for new jig fisherman is CONFIDENCE. If you do not have confidence in a bait, you will not fish it as hard or thoroughly. To many times people will fish it for 3 or 4 casts and give up on it because they didn't get bit and go right back to the worm. I was one of them. It took me the better part of a year to fully get comfortable and confident in a jig. Several trips I would only take a couple rods, all set up with only jigs. I forced myself to learn to fish them if I wanted to get a bite. I started catching some fish. Then one day in the fall everything kinda clicked. I was fishing a white jig with a curly twin tail trailer and swimming it around docks. I caught about 25 fish with 9 fish over 6lbs. Getting so many bites made me realize that there are a lot of bites that you don't feel anything. Only slack line. It turned me into a line watcher and raised my confidence through the roof. Now I am every bit as confident fishing a jig as I am a worm. Year round.
