HOW TO FISH A JIG - Saltwater Fishing Tips and Tutorial

what's up y'all today in this video I'm going to show you all how to fish one of the most versatile inch or saltwater lures and that is a jig so a jig might be the very first lure that you use to catch your first fish it's not only is it one of the most versatile it's also one of the most simple and also effective lures that you will always use to catch inshore saltwater fish so in this video you guys I'm gonna show you all everything that you need to know how to fish a jig how to choose the right jig heads how to choose the right soft plastics to go with your jig the right technique everything that you need to know on how to catch fish with in my opinion the most effective inshore saltwater fishing lure right here in a jig is going down right here in this video so you guys stay tuned I'm gonna show you all how to fish this lure right here alright y'all so the first thing that we want to talk about with jig heads is just like how to choose the right jig head and here I have I'm gonna show you all all the jig heads that I have in my tackle box and I do like to keep things relatively simple so these are my jig heads right here kind of unorganized so I actually laid them out right here I like to use a combination of these gotcha jig heads right here so we have the 1/8 ounce and the 1/8 ounce is perfect when I'm fishing like you know anything like 2 feet of water 3 foot of water fishing over grass fishing over like oyster bars or whatever pairs perfectly with a smaller lure like this this is the Berkley Gulp swimming mullet and this right here when I'm Wade fishing is absolutely ideal so I love this jig head right here I've got a quarter ounce jig head quarter ounce this right here is probably the most used jig head that I have in my arsenal I get a lot of questions about like what color jig heads do I have any preference about color if I had to say it either be white or I really like this red color right here if I'm fishing like this all white soft plastic right here this Berkley Gulp diesel minnow then I'll pair it up with this red right here just for a little bit of contrast so contrast is really important when you're thinking about colors so I do like to fish I really don't always like to fish white on white I'll typically do white with red so I get a lot of questions about colors of jig heads and primarily my favourites are white or red another jig head that I really like to use is these like trout eyes and actually striper eyes so these are kind of newer right here just saw these in my tackle shop and these are 3/4 ounce jig heads a little larger so these are really popular this is the trout eye jig head as you can see the shank at least on this one is much shorter than it is on the gotchas this is really important when you're choosing your jig head and you're pairing it up with your lure so if I'm fishing a smaller profile lure then I'm gonna fish a smaller jig head like this one right here would be the ideal setup right here for its selecting the proper jig head with my soft plastic they found fishing say for instance a jerk shed then I want a longer shank so this hook right here has a longer shank as you can see it's taller than this hook right here it's much more stout so if I had this one then the hook is only coming out to the top like 25% of the lure as opposed to the longer shank you know this one's coming out you know kind of right through the middle of the lure so you're not going to get as much what we like to call short strikes so so you want to make sure that everything lines up that there's not that your bait isn't all wonky it's not like this like that right there is definitely not what you want right there so when you're rigging up your jig head make sure that you are pushing it all the way to the top and if anybody has any tips on z-man and easily rigging up z-man then feel free to share those because these z-man can get you know kind of funny putting them on your jigs cuz that elastic you know it's so stretchy so sometimes it's kind of tough putting them on like thicker jig heads like this one right here so right here this is a half it's jighead this is what we want right here as you can see everything's flush we don't want any gaps like that right there just something that small right there makes all the difference when you're fishing so the fish is definitely not gonna eat that as much as it would right here you want everything to look as natural as possible this is my go-to flounder rig right here so it's a 3/8 ounce jig head and then I've got Berkley Gulp swimming mullet the action that we're going for is this just to be bouncing on the bottom just like that so that's the action that we're going for flounder redfish trout snook all of our in short game fish you can catch them on a jig head I do really like these trout eyes in these striper eyes I think that looks very natural so definitely can't beat that so let's say I'm going out Kristi are going on the boat and we're just gonna go fishing some bat creeks I'm gonna be taking all I need is 1/4 ounce jig head and a 1/8 ounce jig head that's it so if we're fishing and creeks water depths from 10 foot 2 feet you know and more shallower than that anything up to 10 feet then I'm either fishing a 1/8 ounce jig head or a quarter ounce jig head these are typically gonna be when I'm fishing for trout and redfish when I'm fishing for flounder because I want to be fishing on the bottom just on the bottom or I'm fishing and depths of like 5 feet to 15 feet then I'm gonna be fishing a 3/8 ounce jig head I like to always have a 3/8 ounce jig head with a quarter ounce jig head because a 3/8 ounce jig heads sometimes you're gonna be getting hung up on the bottom getting hung up even when I'm fishing near jetties around jetties if I'm getting hung up too much with a 3/8 ounce jig head that I'm gonna scale it back to a quarter ounce so these two when I'm fishing water depths of about 5 to 15 feet is what I'm gonna be using right here if I am going striper fishing and we're going to be fishing water depths 10 foot up to 32 forty feet then I'm gonna be fishing larger profile dates because striper will always hit a larger profile lure so I'm gonna be using these right here this is a three-quarter ounce jig head a half ounce jig head and then I'm also going to have a 3/8 ounce jig head so these right here are gonna be the jig heads that I'm going to be using for striper fishing Bridge fishing if I'm saying if I'm snook fishing is well and I'm fishing like near a pass or over an inlet with heavy current then these are the jig heads that I'm using as well because these will hold better and heavy heavy current so if I'm snook fishing near a bridge then I'm gonna be using these as well these heavier jig heads a little bit larger profile baits so if I'm fishing in Stuart Florida and I'm fishing for larger snook on those bridges then that's what I'm gonna be using right here something like that or a half ounce jig head so redfish same thing I like to go between the trout eye and the gotchas when I'm flounder fishing I'm not gonna use this right here that's just my opinion I'm not gonna use these shorter shank hooks when I'm doing up flounder fishing I want to use a longer shank hook because I'm the flounder sometimes you're gonna short strike it a lot redfish you're not gonna have as much of a problem with short strikes just because the way that redfish and even snook and striper hit your lure you don't get a lot of short strikes they just suck it in trout and flounder you are gonna get a little bit a lot more like short strikes flounder because they're sometimes gonna go after the tail and trout will actually sometimes they will come to a complete stop before they ambush your lure so that's just some a little bit more technical information but that right there that's how I choose my jig heads and hopefully that helps you all out choose your proper jig head and pairing it up with the bait that you're fishing with so hopefully that helps let's go to the beach and I'm gonna show you all the right technique how to work these jig heads alright y'all so now I'm gonna show you all how to properly fish a jig the right technique so I've got my GoPro on so I'm going to show you all a combination of different views from the big camera and then also on my GoPro some some first-person angle so let's go ahead and let's just start talking about the overall technique of how to fish a jig so the most common way to fish a jig is working it just bouncing it on the bottom you can do this all times of the year and all different Fisheries whether you're in Florida or up in Maryland or Delaware catching striped bass or you're catchin snook down in Florida you want to keep this lure the objective of a jig and why it's so effective again is because it's right in the strike zone so a common mistake that people make when they fish a jig is they make their hops way too abrupt like this so their hops when they're hopping it off the bottom when you your rod is seven feet long so as you all can see right here so when I move my rod from here up to right here that's close to four to five feet that my rod tip was right down here about almost right at my shoulders to right here about I don't know nine feet tall okay that's about four feet that my rod so when you guys are jigging you do not need to do these crazy jigs like this so when my jig is right there and you move your rod tip this is a common mistake that people make their rod tip is pointed right here and then when they jig they jig up too much like that see how much that jig moved so the proper way that you want to fish a jig is not taking a rod from here to all the way up it's small bounces just like this very small so when I'm fishing so I'll cast it out and with the jig you always want to have contact with the bottom ninety percent of the time that's what I'm doing is I'm bouncing my jig on the bottom so you want to have contact with the bottom but you don't want to have too much slack in your line if you have too much slack in your line there not able to drive that hook into the fish's mouth and you know keep that fish hook so you don't want to have too much slack in your line but you do won't have contact with the bottom so you want your so you want your jig to be on the bottom and it's just small jigs of the rod just like this and then what you're doing as you're jigging it off of the bottom you're reeling up the slack and that right there is more or less that's the fundamental action that you want to give a jig right there I typically go with like a pop let it hit on the bottom and then like a pop pop most important is that they are just small jigs just like this the other ways that you can work a jig is you can swim it again when you're fishing over a flat even like in Texas you can swim it just like this a steady retrieve don't want to go too fast like this just a nice slow steady retrieve just like that sometimes you can add in the twitch of the rod every so often but you're just swimming it through the water column so swimming it helps when you're fishing over a grass flat when you're fishing in really shallow water it helps when you know there's like an oyster bed that you're trying to not get hung up on then you can also move your rod tip up and down so if I'm trying to work my lure over top of rocks and keep my lure up higher in the water column like for instance I've got these rocks right here then I'll cast it out and as soon as it hits the water I'm gonna keep my rod tip up so see how my rod tip is pointed up just a little bit then I'm gonna that's how my lure is gonna stay higher in the water column now let's say you're fishing deeper and you want to swim your lures deeper then all you're gonna do is just point your rod tip down just like this we're fishing a really shallow there's some grass right out here so we'll probably pick up some grass but for all intents and purposes you guys get the idea if you're fishin deeper point your rod tip down and again you can also give some twitches of the rod just to give your lure a little bit more action so that right there is the technique for how to fish a jig this is the most versatile and in my opinion one of the most effective lures for inshore saltwater fishing so your just again you just want to be bouncing your jig off the bottom and you really want to make sure that you're not just bouncing it and not reeling down the slack to make sure that you're keeping contact with the bottom so when you're popping your jig off the bottom and you're giving it that bouncing motion you can give it the occasional hop the larger hop like that that's okay especially when I'm flounder fishing I'd like to cast it out let it hit the bottom and then I'll give it like a subtle kind of bounce bounce and then I'll give it like a larger hop like that so just that bounce bounce and you can always throw in a larger hop just like that so hopefully that helps yell out this lure right here in my opinion is really like my favorite inshore saltwater fishing lure rig if y'all can catch fish off of this then really you can catch any fish for inshore saltwater fishing stripes bass this lines like all over my face so you can catch striped bass tarpon cobia red drum flounder fishing this is like the staple rig for flounder fishing so there it is y'all that is how to fish a jig everything that you need to know if y'all liked this video please help us out please how about this channel give us a like and subscribe also we definitely want to hear from y'all so if y'all have any other tutorials or how to's that y'all want us to do or feature on then definitely drop oh is the line in the comment section below that's all I got y'all now it's time for y'all to get up off your butt catch yourself some fish peace out

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Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 23 2020