Thread: Should I try jigs?

Finally got a chance to give them a try! Unfortunately it was pretty uneventful, but I did finally break my jig virginity! Caught about 15 fish today, but only about three on jigs. Tried a few different colors, with the medium brown doing the best. Used a float most of the time, and ironically had the most hits just a few feet off of shore.


Tried a few different techniques, the majority of which were just a slow retrieve with a tiny twitch. Could not get them to cast worth a durn unless I had a float or split shot.

Was very windy today, I was casting with the wind to my back at about 25 miles an hour.

Definitely a lot of fun, and probably need to go out with somebody who uses jigs all the time. I must be doing something wrong, because I would throw a jig into the worm hotspot with little success.


Action died down pretty quick as the sun starting to come down, but they were hitting pretty good on worms. For reference, about 15 today, about 41 in the same time period last week.

I did use one of the jig hooks with the worms, and had zero gut hooks! Unfortunately, bite detection was tough, and later in the day I kept getting robbed. I grabbed an Aberdeen hook, and was rewarded with back to back got hooks. Went to my trusty number six, and got a pretty bad immediate gut hook. I did catch one fish and noticed that it already had a hook imbedded in its stomach.


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