Booyah Baby Boo Jigs

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I rediscovered jig fishing this year, so I thought I'd share some of the techniques that worked for me. By the way, by jigs, I mean casting jigs, not flipping/ pitching/ swimming ones. The jig that's worked the best for me is the 5/16 oz Booyah Baby Boo jig. I've tried several other name brand ones, including the Booyah Boo jigs, none of them worked half as well. I'm still waiting for some North Star jigs I placed an order for, though.

Equipment: 7'3" medium power extra-fast action Powell Max spinning rod, Shimano Sonora 2500 reel, 30 lb test Daiwa Samurai mainline with 8-12 lb test fluoro or mono leader.

Technique: Cast out past a likely fish holding cover, let it sink. If a strike doesn't occur on the first fall, lift it off the lake bottom, and let it sink again. Repeat until the jig is out of the strike zone. The conditions dictate how aggressively the jig must be worked. In winter, I have let the jig sit (after the drop) for as long as 30 seconds. Today, I let the jig sit for maybe 1-2 seconds before lifting it again. In colder days, most of the bites I got were when the jig sat on the bottom, or when I just started to move it after the pause. In warmer water, a lot of jig bites came on the drop, either on the initial drop, or on one of the successive ones.

Bite Detection, Hookset: I'm a line-watcher, all the time, every time. Sometimes, of course, as with plastics, the bass just eats the jig and sits there. The only difference with plastics is that the bass doesn't hold on to the jig forever. So set that hook hard and fast.

Jig fish = Big fish? I speak from my very limited experience, but the vast majority of jig fish I've caught are in the 10"-14" range. Maybe it's the way I fish, or the location, but that's the way it is with me. I get plenty of bites while fishing the little jigs that I fish - today I got 16 jig bites and landed 13 in about 3 hours- so if you're someone looking to dabble with jigs, rest assured that you'll get plenty of bites even if you're fishing a jig.

Booyah Baby Boo: This is the jig I fish 95% of the time. In the winter/ spring, the bass liked the orange jig; now-a-days, they seem to like the green one way more. I used Rage baby craw trailers in colder water. As the water warmed up, I started to lean towards the Rage Craw. The particular green jig you see in the picture must have accounted for at least a hundred bass, no kidding. I caught 13 on it today, and 12 last Saturday, and I fish a lot; go figure. I trim the weedguard on almost all my jigs. I like to believe they allow for better hooksets, and the bass holds on for a little longer without half of that stiff weedguard.

[Fat-G]

A very good jig, I like Northstar jigs WAY more.

As long as it's a jig and has a RT on the back, it's good.

Edit: Like that color combo as well.