Jigging Spoons

[hookingem]

So I have never fished a jigging spoon but have been told they can be killer on Claytor lake. How do you guys fish them? Do you just look for schools of bait fish and jig them up? Do you cast them or just drop them down off the side of the boat? Do the fish usually eat them on the fall? Do you fish them on flouro or mono? Thanks in advanced.

[Bluebasser86]

About the most important thing for fishing them around here is finding baitfish. Once you find them you drop the spoon through the school of bait and try various jigging retrieves to see what works. If you're good at reading a graph and have one good enough to follow your bait you can watch your spoon on the graph and watch fish swim up to the bait. This is really helpful and determining what jigging candence they want that day. I've caught fish casting them but that's usually to fish schooling on the surface. I've also used them for jigging under deep docks in the summer instead of a jig or dropshot. Fish almost always catch it on the fall so make sure it falls on a semi-slack line so you can feel the tick and keep track of how far it falls so if it stops short you can set the hook. I like braid with a floro leader because it really helps set the hook on a fish that might be 60-80 feet down.