Zoom Brush Hogs

[youngbuckanglers]

What kind of retrieve should i use when fishing a Brush Hog with a weight on? Twitch? or swim it weightless?

[Bluebasser86]

Fish it anyway you fish a plastic worm. I like to pitch a baby brush hog on a 1/4oz weight and 4/0 hook to visible cover and docks and just hop it back slowly. They're a great C-rig bait too.

[rockchalk06]

I like then as trailers on smaller jigs but they are heavy enough, I throw a 3/16 oz weight T-rigged and it works great.

[micahsrad]

Fish it anyway you fish a plastic worm. I like to pitch a baby brush hog on a 1/4oz weight and 4/0 hook to visible cover and docks and just hop it back slowly. They're a great C-rig bait too.

+1 never used it on a C-rig but throwing it at or in cover is my most successful presentation when I used the Zoom Brush Hog(I use the DC Stump Thumper from Deep Creek Lures now)

[Sam]

Outstanding bait. Everyone needs to know how to fish the brush hog.

Flip it; pitch it; Texas rig it; Carolina rig it; use it as a spinnerbait trailer; use it as a Chatterbait trailer; use it on a shaky head; use it on a drop shot; fish it sideways with the hook in it's side. Get the drift????

I suggest flipping and pitchng the brush hog into structure and wood and grass and pads, and open water, etc. with a 1/8 ounce pegged bullet weight or fish it totally weightless.

Try a number of ways to present the bait and then decide which one works best under what conditions and thrown where.

[fishking247]

i texas rig them with a small bullet weight and use a lift and drop retrieve. has been a go to bait for on light line with a 1/8oz weight over grass beds

[11justin22]

I usually Texas rig with. 3/16 weight and drag it along the bottom. I also pitch into anything that I can find.

[Bankbeater]

You might try a split shot rig or even weightless.

[Mike L]

IMHO, I'ts the best darn soft plastic there is...

It's heavy enough to fish with no weight

You can modify it if you want.

Use as a trailer...

Sam said it exactly right

Mike

Outstanding bait. Everyone needs to know how to fish the brush hog.

Flip it; pitch it; Texas rig it; Carolina rig it; use it as a spinnerbait trailer; use it as a Chatterbait trailer; use it on a shaky head; use it on a drop shot; fish it sideways with the hook in it's side. Get the drift????

I suggest flipping and pitchng the brush hog into structure and wood and grass and pads, and open water, etc. with a 1/8 ounce pegged bullet weight or fish it totally weightless.

Try a number of ways to present the bait and then decide which one works best under what conditions and thrown where.

[LgMouthGambler]

Outstanding bait. Everyone needs to know how to fish the brush hog.

Flip it; pitch it; Texas rig it; Carolina rig it; use it as a spinnerbait trailer; use it as a Chatterbait trailer; use it on a shaky head; use it on a drop shot; fish it sideways with the hook in it's side. Get the drift????

I suggest flipping and pitchng the brush hog into structure and wood and grass and pads, and open water, etc. with a 1/8 ounce pegged bullet weight or fish it totally weightless.

Try a number of ways to present the bait and then decide which one works best under what conditions and thrown where.

That pretty much sums it up.

[iceintheveins]

Very, very versatile. Generally I use it near cover or outside weedlines, with a 1/4 ounce weight pegged to it and a 1/0 EWG for the baby size. A lift fall retrieve is great, and jiggle it on the bottom when it hits for a few seconds.

[jignfule]

Outstanding bait. Everyone needs to know how to fish the brush hog.

Flip it; pitch it; Texas rig it; Carolina rig it; use it as a spinnerbait trailer; use it as a Chatterbait trailer; use it on a shaky head; use it on a drop shot; fish it sideways with the hook in it's side. Get the drift????

I suggest flipping and pitchng the brush hog into structure and wood and grass and pads, and open water, etc. with a 1/8 ounce pegged bullet weight or fish it totally weightless.

Try a number of ways to present the bait and then decide which one works best under what conditions and thrown where.

X2 I also use it as a jig trailor when I want a little larger profile.

[wakeeater]

i've had alot of success fishing the baby brush hog on a shakey head & hopping it in cover.

[dday07]

C-RIGGED best for me...T-RIG 2nd