Jigs....hop Em Or Drag Em

[fhsfish]

Just looking to get an idea how you guys prefer to fish your jigs. Hop them or drag the bottom?

[fhsfish]

If you do anything else special let us know with a write in

[tholmes]

Both, along with swimming them.

 

Tom

[stk]

I try to do a mix of things, but the fish will ultimately tell you how to fish it.  Usually during the first few casts (from shore), I drag the bottom to see what the bottom is like.  If it comes back with weeds or if I run into any rocks.  If I hit a rock, I'll try a little hop to get over the rock and drag/hop back to shore.  If it's weeds I'll swim it back, but I usually go to a jig after going through my faster presentation baits (crankbaits and spinnerbaits).  My problem is that sometimes I fish the jigs too fast and have to tell myself to slow down.

[speed craw]

No swimming vote ?

[Mccallister25]

Both, along with swimming them.

Tom

This

[kadas]

Both, along with swimming them.

 

Tom

 same as this

[Frenchman83]

I will drag more then hop. I think horizontal movement is very important. If I am fishing a swimjig then I will swim it.

[F14A-B]

I like to sloooow crawl with the reel/ slow crank a football /trailor 3/4 ounce

[Hi Salenity]

Hop or drag= yes

[PersicoTrotaVA]

Drop it, drag it, hop it, swim it, jig it. twitch it. pop it...there are probably 1000 different ways to fish a jig.  Today I was pitching one into fallen trees and just picking it up and letting it pendulum down out of the tree towards deeper water.  After it hit the bottom again I would wait about 3 seconds and then pick it up and let it pendulum down the slope again.  If no bites I re cast and kept doing that.  Hooked into a big fish doing this but he spit the jig because I didn't get a good yank on him...woulda probably have been a new PB as well.

[Creekcrappie]

I let the fish tell me.

[Bluebasser86]

I used to hop them, lately it seems like they've preferred the drag though, at the least the bigger fish have and that's what's important. 

[Jar11591]

So many hits have come as I'm shaking the jig in place. I'll hop it or drag it a few times, then pause for a few seconds and then I'll start shaking it in place.

[airborne_angler]

Does dragging a jig differ from dragging a C-Rig. How are the bites similar...how are they different? Is it safe to say that if you've got confidence dragging a C-Rig, that it shouldn't be tough to have confidence in dragging a jig? True or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[Brian Needham]

hop, drag, stroke, pop, twitch, shake, rattle and roll, I do it all.

[TJS209]

I do it all.  I probably drag a football jig more than anything, think about rolling a football on the ground it's unpredictable as to how it will roll.  Same thing with a football jig.  When I'm dragging a football jig and I feel it come up against a rock or snag I'll let it sit for a second then pop it off, get a lot of bites after you pop it off.  Another technique I like in deep water is stroking a jig 4-6' and letting it fall. 

[papajoe222]

I hop 'em, drag 'em, swim 'em, and dead stick 'em, but mostly I'm pitching 'em to laydowns or pockets in the weeds.

About the only thing I don't do that some have said, is shake rattle and roll 'em.  Don't know how, but I'd like to see Brian doing it.