How To Entice A Jig Strike?

[eyedabassman]

Ok so I guess we should ignore his videos about crankbaiting on youtube...he thinks he's pretty good!

Catt, i am not saying that Dean is not good at what he does and that he is a very good crankbait guy! In that tournament it came down to choice's and water fished.The top 12 caught them on the said baits but found productive area's to fish. In fact there alot of guys that had there 5 fish each day and culled alot! But I think we went off track to the post.I agree that if they are small bass that they are just curious to the bait. It could have come down to down size the bait or speed or  color ,action. We where not there at the time. I just offered some help to the man who made the post.

[Brian Needham]

. Next time I'll use a 1/4jig

 

when I think downsizing I don't always think less weight...... I think smaller trailer, and trim the skirt.

[SirSnookalot]

Doesn't make any difference If Dean Rojas is catching fish or not, only thing that matters is if you are catching fish. Some days fish are on and others days they aren't, it's that simple.  I've got a lot of nice bass in the canal behind my home and canal fishing is as easy as it gets.  The other day a guy was fishing a live worms and bobber, not a strike, I caught only 1 on a fluke.  The day before the bass were jumping onto my hook, and yesterday they just followed my EZ swimmer and veered off.  

[Comfortably Numb]

shakey head

[Catt]

Catt, i am not saying that Dean is not good at what he does and that he is a very good crankbait guy! In that tournament it came down to choice's and water fished.The top 12 caught them on the said baits but found productive area's to fish. In fact there alot of guys that had there 5 fish each day and culled alot! But I think we went off track to the post.I agree that if they are small bass that they are just curious to the bait. It could have come down to down size the bait or speed or color ,action. We where not there at the time. I just offered some help to the man who made the post.

My point is it doesn't matter if it's you, me, or KVD!

If they don't want to bite you can not "ENTICE" em into to bitting.

Y'all are giving the OP half a story, as much as I try to instill confidence in my students, I also teach them reality!

[Jeff H]

But, you don't know (for sure)) that they don't want to bite, just that they don't want to bite that jig.  Before accepting that they don't want to bite anything, I'd have thrown something else at 'em if they were of size I needed.  If that fails, I keep moving and maybe come back later.

[Smallmouth Hunter]

Try letting it sit more. I found that I get much more bites on jigs (during all seasons) when I work it slower. Cast it out and drag it a few inches and just let it sit. 10 - 20 seconds will do usually. Most of the time, they will hit it as soon as you start to drag it again because you are basically pulling it away from them. Imagine that they are staring at your jig the whole time. That is the mind set that will help a lot.

 

Another thing is when you feel cover of any sort - timber, rocks, or even a change in material on the bottom whether it be gravel to sand or whatever - just stop the jig on a dime and twitch your slack. Don't overwork it though. After twitching it a few times, pull the line tight so you can feel the jig, but don't move it. Then let it go slack again and do a few more twitches. Then stroke it swiftly over the cover a foot or so through the water. Sometimes the bass will react violently to this and nail the jig.

 

Good luck and hopefully this helps. For the most part, just slow down and experiment with your retrieve.

[eyedabassman]

My point is it doesn't matter if it's you, me, or KVD!

If they don't want to bite you can not "ENTICE" em into to bitting.

Y'all are giving the OP half a story, as much as I try to instill confidence in my students, I also teach them reality!

I agree to what you said and I should have said= at times you can get get them to react to a bait even if they are not feeding~ If a bass is on a bed and has no plans to feed,it may hit a bait out of reaction or they may even get mad enough to hit. And what I was trying to say was the tournament on Table Rock the first day it was air temp of 80 and low 50's to mid 50's days 2,3,4 post front,high winds and blue bird sky's = negative fish but yet they did well.Mike McCelland won it, and he did make the same cast to the same spot 10 to 15 times at different angles and caught bass that he knew were there! He would fish a creek or cove for along time and at times a hour or two in one creek and for a reason. That is what I am trying to say!!

[Catt]

Quote eyedabassman "watch the pro's fish a jig and if that happen to them 99.9% they will catch them fish because they can be caught."

Uh! No they wouldn't! At least not 99.9%!

I say 50-50!

Several times a year I fish with some of the best Pros around as well as dozens of anglers that do very well on the Bass Champs, Bass n Bucks, Redman, Texas Team Trail & others.

Ya know what some days they struggle like us!

Are those bass uncatchable! Maybe!

But I aint saying I wouldn't try to catch em!

[eyedabassman]

Quote eyedabassman "watch the pro's fish a jig and if that happen to them 99.9% they will catch them fish because they can be caught."

Uh! No they wouldn't! At least not 99.9%!

I say 50-50!

Several times a year I fish with some of the best Pros around as well as dozens of anglers that do very well on the Bass Champs, Bass n Bucks, Redman, Texas Team Trail & others.

Ya know what some days they struggle like us!

Are those bass uncatchable! Maybe!

But I aint saying I wouldn't try to catch em!

Ok I think we agree and I was wrong to the 99.9% of the time and it is more like 50/50. I too have fished with some of the big names and I will say they are relentless!

[Jeff H]

Y'all are giving the OP half a story, as much as I try to instill confidence in my students, I also teach them reality!

I like the last part of that statement!