Worm/jig bite

[mr.kagrise]

Though I'm a fairly new convert to the jig, soft plastics are my bread and butter. A LOT of creature baits this year! That being said, I gotta agree with the importance of your rod. For me, fishing a jig and trailer can be tough because of the weight. You go from hopping a craw with a 3/16 weight to working a 3/8 jig plus trailer, that added weight can cause a lot of false hook sets. There's nothing wrong with that, misses are free, but a quality rod takes a lot of that away. Once you make your mind up to learn a technique, fish that technique all day. Practice, practice, practice!

[WRB]

Bumped this back up for those new worm/jig anglers.

Tom

[Fishingintheweeds]

On 7/19/2007 at 12:14 AM, David P said:

This is what I have been trying to get the hang of for the past month now and have come a LONG way sense I first started.

The tap tap is the easiest to detect, obviously.

Just recently I have begun to set the hook when I feel resistance though, and many times this has resulted in a fish of decent size.

It's tough though when there's tons of weeds and stuff in the lake you fish because I feel resistance 90% of the time.

It's ironic that you post this when I've been dealing with the same issue and really trying to master this one part of fishing.

So, you're saying that you didn't do anything different, other than deciding to set the hook now, at the times you felt resistance? As in, the things you felt didn't change, you just changed your behavior and began setting the hook on resistance? 

 

It seems like that would be the way...or how else would you know. Just to see. I'm asking now though because you're the only person I've seen whose said you did everything the same, all you did was set the hook more. And you found out it WASN'T just some vegetation or dragging over a rock, and you caught more fish. 

 

That's very straight forward. Ha, ha, I'm not sure if David P is still out there, 11 years later...but maybe? Has anyone else had this experience? 

[Fishingintheweeds]

On 6/28/2013 at 8:59 PM, Catt said:

Sometimes when answering someone's questions its easier to bring up old threads

What is the best post about rod quality? I have two mh, but they're very different and the one I mostly throw the frogs on, is kind of a broom stick. I don't think there's a problem with the rod, it just might be better suited for something else. The length is good but it's heavy. I've thrown a 3/8-1/2 oz jig on it but the more I've done this, the more I've started to think that there's a lot I may be missing due to a lack of sensitivity. 

[Catt]

@Fishingintheweeds

 

In 2007 my jig rod was a Daiwa TD-V701MHRB Team Daiwa-V, not exactly a highly sensitive rod by today's standards. Still got that old rod... still catch fish with it!

 

Caught 1,000s of bass on Berkley Lighting Rods ?

 

Sensitivity starts with your line & rod but ends with your hands & brain.

 

Even the most experienced anglers still set hook on grass, twigs, leafs, or whatever.

[Fishingintheweeds]

Right. I'm certain that the rods I have now are probably 10 times better than the rods used by the very first, good jig fisherman...and he still caught the fish. Same for a lot of the baits. Since I've started back up a few years ago, I've already accumulated way more stuff, rods and reels than most sane people. So, I try to remind myself of the above on a regular basis.  

 

I guess that was what I was looking to read various opinions on, if the rod actually makes THAT much difference. Right now, the line on that rod is 50 lb braid. Mostly because I spend a lot of time chunking frogs with it and then, really whatever else isn't too light for that setup. Based on some of what I've read so far, I may try the jigs on another rod that already has lighter line on it. 

 

So, one thing by itself isn't the magic, the improvement comes from the combination of these things more than just the rod. And it sounds like a good place for me to start would be with lighter line and a lot more practice. 

 

Ha, until I started going down this rabbit hole, I'd never considered setting the hook on what's probably nothing, just in case. But this week, I can't count the number of times. I guess I gotta get one, or 100, like THAT before I know the difference between whatever that was...and all the ones that were nothing.