Quote Originally Posted by try'n hard View Post
The "bow" technique worked almost 100% of the time and I've spent a couple of days trying to figure out why.....still don't know but it definitely works
As I said in my reply : "What this does (or seems to do) is allow the bait to fall away from the obstacle - then when you lift it back (twice as far as you let it fall away) the head of the jig "bumps" the obstacle, and "hops" up over top of it."

That's the only thing I could come up with that made any sense. I figured out how that "bowing" worked from so many attempts to get my jig off a tree limb (above water). I figured out real quick that a quick jerk would only wrap the line around the branch (or the one above it or in front of it), or impale the hook into the branch the line was draped over.
But, when I reeled the line up until the jig was barely hanging past the branch, then softly lifted up the rod tip ... the jig seemed to almost always "hop/bounce" over the limb and was free from it. So I figured if it worked in the air, it should work underwater ... and so I tried it and it did work, quite often ending in getting a thump once the jig cleared the limb and started falling back towards me.