The jig bite

[Chad.]

So uhh felas the question i gotta ask is how do you detect the jig bite! This is one thing i need to learn i have a good idea on fishing them, but the bite is what i'm having difficulty on. Hope to hear from good advice looking to you catt!

[Catt]

Worm/jig bite

Ok let's see if we can shed some light on the subject of feeling a worm or jig bite; many people say the two are totally different but I believe they are very similar.

Worm/jig: with these baits the bass will simply flare its gills causing a vacuum which moves water and your bait into their mouth. With this bite there is very little if any line movement thereby not much is transmitted to your rod tip.

The art of feeling a worm/jig bite is a fine combination of watching your line and feeling for unnatural sensations of what your bait shouldn't feel like. Some times you will feel that classic Tap, some times you'll only see line movement, some times your line will simply go slack, but some times there will only be a feeling of heaviness that is almost like your line will not move. The bites where the bass moves after inhaling you bait are the easy ones to feel because there is line movement, the bites where the bass simply inhales your bait and just sits there are the hardest to feel. Feeling a worm/jig bite requires keeping a certain amount of tension on your line while at the same time keeping a certain amount of slackness in your line. To the average angler this makes no sense at all but the worm/jig angler it makes total sense.

[Chad.]

Worm/jig bite

Ok let's see if we can shed some light on the subject of feeling a worm or jig bite; many people say the two are totally different but I believe they are very similar.

Worm/jig: with these baits the bass will simply flare its gills causing a vacuum which moves water and your bait into their mouth. With this bite there is very little if any line movement thereby not much is transmitted to your rod tip.

The art of feeling a worm/jig bite is a fine combination of watching your line and feeling for unnatural sensations of what your bait shouldn't feel like. Some times you will feel that classic Tap, some times you'll only see line movement, some times your line will simply go slack, but some times there will only be a feeling of heaviness that is almost like your line will not move. The bites where the bass moves after inhaling you bait are the easy ones to feel because there is line movement, the bites where the bass simply inhales your bait and just sits there are the hardest to feel. Feeling a worm/jig bite requires keeping a certain amount of tension on your line while at the same time keeping a certain amount of slackness in your line. To the average angler this makes no sense at all but the worm/jig angler it makes total sense.

I understand this as i have had those feelings before on a baby *** i try to set the hook when i feel anything unnatural which resulted in my first plastics fish, but i could not describe it that helps a lot sometimes ill lift my rod  tip once in ah wile if i feel any thing out of the ordinary, but i have yet to feel the heaviness feeling Thanks a ton

Now i just need more time on the water.

[JShrock07]

Sometimes if you lift your rod tip to detect a bite the fish will feel that pressure and will let go of the bait. That is why you need to keep you line tight/loose all at the same time it takes ALOT of practice but in the end your larger fish will come from a jig bite.

Good Luck!!!

[Jig Man]

Worm/jig bite

Ok let's see if we can shed some light on the subject of feeling a worm or jig bite; many people say the two are totally different but I believe they are very similar.

Worm/jig: with these baits the bass will simply flare its gills causing a vacuum which moves water and your bait into their mouth. With this bite there is very little if any line movement thereby not much is transmitted to your rod tip.

The art of feeling a worm/jig bite is a fine combination of watching your line and feeling for unnatural sensations of what your bait shouldn't feel like. Some times you will feel that classic Tap, some times you'll only see line movement, some times your line will simply go slack, but some times there will only be a feeling of heaviness that is almost like your line will not move. The bites where the bass moves after inhaling you bait are the easy ones to feel because there is line movement, the bites where the bass simply inhales your bait and just sits there are the hardest to feel. Feeling a worm/jig bite requires keeping a certain amount of tension on your line while at the same time keeping a certain amount of slackness in your line. To the average angler this makes no sense at all but the worm/jig angler it makes total sense.

Very well stated.  And since they have no hands, if you feel anything different SET THE HOOK.

[Chad.]

Thanks i appreciate this much thanks catt .

[BassBandit35]

I don't use jig much but I have a friend who is a hardcore jig man. He said when you get a bite on jig, most of the time you will feel its mushy like a wet towel over your jig. I have caught a few that felt like that and he was right. When you feel that then set it hard.