How To Fish EVERY Style Of JIG To Catch More BASS!

so these four lures i have in my hand right here are called jigs now the jig is a widely used fishing lure that for a long time i did not find a place for in my tackle box i was confused by even the thought of how to work a jig where to put the jig how to get a good hook set with a jig and i thought there's no way a fish would bite this over a texas rig i'll just throw a sink out and boy was i wrong in today's video we're gonna take a dive into the four styles of fishing jig heads and hopefully teach you guys how to catch some fish on every single one of these and as the famous song goes today we're getting jiggy with it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] how's it going everybody and welcome back to tyler's real fishing my name is tyler and i'm making my goal on this channel to help you guys become better bass anglers and as i said in the intro there we're going to talk about the four j head styles where you can apply them in your legs and ponds to catch more fish and of course with every 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going to talk about today i know i do not in this video get into the types of trailers you need i will have all those links below with the jigs that i talk about in the description but i made a whole video on jig trailers themselves because with jigs you need a trailer to go on the back of a jig that's just the way that it's designed you can catch fish without a trailer but i'm just telling you you're going to catch way more with a trailer on there and so i made a whole video on jade trailers themselves and i will have that linked below as well as up in the corner so uh let's talk about the jakes so the order in which we're going to talk about these jigs is an order of most effective and most widely utilized to more niche i wouldn't say less effective it's just less situations in which you can throw those jigs and so starting at jade number one we're going to talk about the standard or arcy style jig head this right here is a standard style jig head they come in all sorts of different sizes and shapes but the general name surrounding them is called the archi head a-r-k-y maybe it was ark ie back in the day but there was a lure company called arky jigs way back in the day not even sure if they still exist but that company to my knowledge pioneered this style of head whether the line tie is vertical or horizontal these are all basically called arky style jig heads because they can be fished in all different scenarios this is the outcast tackle juice jig and i love throwing this jig basically anywhere in grass wood skipping under docks even around rocks this thing is just so versatile and that is what makes this jig so great you can throw it anywhere and you can even retrieve it in whichever way the fish are dictating you want the jig retrieved so you can swim it you can hop it you can drag it it is really an all-purpose jig and because of that it is a fish catching machine i have caught so many fish on a standard style jig head and by that i mean it's just a you know rounded sides usually a little bit of a flat bottom doesn't have to be totally flat that way it sits on the bottom a little bit easier usually just a standard style skirt material nothing is cut shorter or longer and it's just a fish catcher now the gear that is best for throwing a standard style jig like this of course depends on how heavy the jig is and how heavy cover you're fishing in so if i'm just fishing open water with a little bit of grass a little bit of wood i like to throw a standard r key style jig on a 7 2 to 7 3 heavy action rod with a fast action tip i want a little bit of soft tip i don't want extra fast because i want to be able to kind of feel what's down there on the bottom but i still want the heavy action rod to be able to set the hook hard and that's that's going to be the thread across all of these jigs besides the finesse jig all these jigs you're going to have to set the hook hard and that just takes learning so i'll top on the front deck and show you guys how to fish the standard arky style jig head so the arky style head like i mentioned is one of the most versatile jig heads out there you can really do just about anything with it i love throwing it around grass around wood and there's tons of different shapes and styles especially the outcast makes i love the cage fighter for docks i love the stealth fighter for grass and the juice just for any sort of all-around pond fishing situations usually and any sort of scattered vegetation and grass that's where i like to throw the juice jig but the way that you work it really depends on the situation so i'm going to skip it under this dock right here after i get my backlash out the way that i like to retrieve it in these situations really most the time is i'm going to reel down i'm going to kind of hop it up and let it sink maybe do one or two hops reel on my line and let it sink lift it up oh i've got some grass kind of shake it out of the grass and let it sink most arque style heads i am hopping i'm not usually swimming them you can you can drag them as well as i'll talk about the football jig but i like to just do little hops like this imagine it being a crawfish or a bluegill that's kind of hopping off the bottom kind of living his you know jolly old life not expecting to get bit but just like that skip it under there give it one or two hops let it sink sometimes i'll do a slower pull up but it's mostly a you know rod in front of me like this reeling down pulling up and letting it sink back down it just depends on how fast you want to do that whether you want to do fast little jigs or you want to do slow hops up and down it's there's tons of great ways to work it now when you get a bite you're going to either feel a thump or you're just going to feel something different you're going to reel down as far down as you can go and just give them the business that's going to be oh almost at the camera there that's going to be a constant with almost all the jigs besides the finesse jig you just want to set the hook hard i don't care if you think you're a hard hook setter you could always be a harder one and so that's my one advice for for hook sets on jigs that i didn't quite understand when i was first bass fishing is that if you can set the hook harder set the hook harder but working a normal style jig head is just super simple so don't over complicate it hop it up and down let those fish see it and when they bite give them the business oh yeah there he is that was perfect that was perfect i love it i love it so the second jig on our list is going to be the swim jig [Music] the swim jig as this name implies is designed to be sw swam swam swam span through the water now you can tell immediately by looking at this b-roll shot that i have on the screen the swim jig head is different than the arky style it is not a round head anymore it is more of a cylinder i would classify it more as a cylinder or a cone rather than a round head and i'm going to take a much deeper dive into the swim jig in a video coming out very soon as a matter of fact it might already be out by the time this video comes out as a matter of fact i'm pretty sure that i have a video on every single one of these besides maybe the football jig that i will link below that way you guys can understand when i go into a deeper dive into how to fish these things this video is just kind of an overview and you know for people that have never fished a jig before and you just want to get a good head start that's what this video is for so had to give a little plug out of the way and so because the swim jig is usually a relatively lighter head design it is meant to be swam in the top of the water column usually in my experience uh a foot to three foot beneath the water sometimes even less than a foot i'm reeling it literally on the the water's surface within the first four inches of the water column and getting those fish to come out of shallow cover and eat it now when it comes to the swim jig i don't always have to throw a heavy action rod especially if i'm in sparse vegetation i can throw a seven foot three medium heavy uh if you're really target casting with it i would go with a seven foot or a six ten you just wanna make sure you have enough backbone to get the hook into those fish uh swim jig works better for me on shorter casts because i can set the hook and really get the fish out of that shallow cover but especially if i'm fishing around lily pal like like hard lily pads any sort of bushes or trees i want to be throwing a heavy action rod very similar very very similar to the one that i throw the arky style jig head on i'm going to throw the swim jig on and a lot more off and i'm throwing braided line on a swim jig than i am on the arky style so let's go on the front deck real quick and show you guys how to fish the swim jig now when fishing a swim jig you literally just want to swim it i go into a much deeper dive in my swim jig specific video that i'll have linked below at some point um but when you're casting it out there of course you want to pick an area that has shallow cover shallower than any other jig can go and that's usually where i'm throwing a swim jig so in really really shallow lily pads shallow grass underneath super super shallow docks where other jigs would just make too much commotion a swim jig really shines and that's mostly due to the trailer on the back i love having a rage crawl on the back of my swim jigs or a rage menace but up here we got some really shallow grass the bass in minnesota are moving shallow because it's the fall i love throwing a swim jig in the fall so i'm going to make a really long cast over that stuff and start my retrieve right away you know with i'll show you the difference here with the arky style head i would have made a cast over that grass right there and i would have let it sunk to the bottom because that's what you're supposed to do with most jakes i would have been hopping it off the bottom like this and that definitely has its place but not this shallow this shallow you want to keep that swim jig looking like a bluegill with his tail kicking on the top of the water column and any bass with his eyes on the top of his head is looking up sees that jig pass by and charges it and eats it some swim jig bites that i get are absolutely unreal they knock slack in the line and thus you need a high speed gear ratio reel to do that usually an eight three to one or seven five to one any faster gear ratio and make sure that you have a good handle on there to be able to really real fast to catch up to those fish as you'll see from some of the fish catches in my swim jig video i'm gonna cast some jig out there switch hands in midair and start my retrieve with my rod tip high literally as soon as that jig hits the water in this situation now if you're fishing in i don't know four or five feet of water and you want the swim jig to to go a few feet under of course let it sink for a second or two but right here i don't i want it to be right on the top of the water column so i have switched hands in midair on keeping the rod tip high because with the rod tip high it allows that bait to swim higher up in the water column and it is a covering water bait now it's not covering water with a lot of vibration and sound as the chatterbait and spinnerbait do or the square bill as well but it covers water in more of a finessey type situation uh and i've just found that there's so many times when bass see so many spinnerbaits and chatterbaits but they don't see a whole lot of swim jigs especially up in that really nasty cover where nobody else can even throw their lure that's where i think the the swim jig excels so like you're seeing me here i'm literally just reeling it straight back in keeping that jig as high in the water column as i can letting the crawls on the trailer do all the action not a whole lot of rod uh you know no that was a fish i've got one no way i knew i did as you can tell hopefully you can sigh maybe you might not be able to see from that camera angle but it is so shallow up there no other jig could be effective up there i mean you couldn't hop a jig off the bottom because it's not really a bottom to hop off of it is basically bottom once you hit the water that right there shows you the swim jig catches them and i didn't even hardly do anything on that cast besides start my retrieve and that fish came and nabbed it now there will be some times when you want to give that jig a little bit more action than just swimming it back in with the trailer kicking so i'm going to cast it out there start my retrieve and literally just pulsate my rod tip but basically as fast as i can while still reeling with my right hand and it causes that jig skirt to just flare flare flare the whole way back in and that can trigger some really really reactive strikes from bass that oftentimes would not bite if that jig was just swimming by i think most the time literally swimming the jig back in and occasionally giving it a pop or pausing your reel is good enough but of course there's so many ways to work the swim jig and it's also really versatile i can skip the swim jig around docks i can fish it around grass i mean you know if i've got a bank line of grass that i've been working the swim jig around and i get to a dock i don't necessarily have to pick up an arcy style jig head to skip under the dock i can just go ahead and skip the swim jig because it is pretty good as well for fishing underneath docks and just like that you guys understand how to fish a swim jig like i mentioned we're going to have a really fun video coming out that you guys are going to want to see from the swim jig probably caught like 20 fish in that video so it's going to be super awesome but that is how to fish a swim jig enjoy these fish catches gosh watched him eat it washed him eat it watch them eat it get in the boat yes let's go oh oh gosh it's a pike i think it's gotta be oh he's fat he's fat jig number three on our list and my favorite for catching big bass in deeper water is the football jig [Music] the football jig is a surefire way to make sure that your fishing day ends with a game-winning touchdown but the football jig has nothing to do with football itself besides the fact that the shape is actually well actually has everything to do with the football the head of the jig actually looks like a football does if you were to take a football and you were to hold it out like this like a lot of i don't know quarterbacks doing on tv that is the way that the head of the jig is sitting it is sitting perpendicular to the hook the hook is sitting this way the football jig head is sitting this way a lot of other jig heads sit in line with or parallel with the hook the football jig sits the opposite way and the reasoning for this is because this jig is meant to be fished in deeper water and is meant to displace the bottom so most jigs you don't want dragging across the bottom pulling up muck and moving rocks but the football jig you do you want to create a trail of dust down there for those fish to be able to find your jig and eat it this jig is meant to be in their face not in the same way the swim jig is or it's like a reaction style lure you just want this thing to be sitting down there dragging across those rocks and wood and getting in that vicious area where he has no choice but to eat it with most of the other jigs that i like to keep around a half an ounce i love to throw a three-quarter ounce football jig that way i can get really long casts and really make sure my jig is staying down on the bottom because with all these jakes besides the swim jig it's very important your jig stays on the bottom and when you're in deep water it's really easy for your your your pull on your jig when you're dragging it or hopping it to pull it off the bottom i want to make sure that my jig is staying on the bottom as much as possible now the gear that you need for a football jig really doesn't vary all that much from a regular a jig like the swim jig or an arky style but it can so you can get away with throwing a regular style jig or a swim jig on a seven foot you know medium heavy that technically could work i prefer to throw a little bit longer of a rod but you can get away with that on a football jig you really can't you might be able to catch some fish but you're gonna have a hard time setting the hook in deeper water with a shorter rod and so i like to throw at minimum a seven foot three seven foot four or seven foot six is really my go-to rod when it comes to throwing a football jig a seven six heavy and make sure that rod is a heavy action rod the line size that i'm usually throwing with a football jig is 17 pound fluorocarbon occasionally i'll jump up to 20 pound if i'm throwing it around brushed piles out deep or submerged trees but most the time is 17 pound i have found that's enough to get the hook into those fish and of course dirty water you can get away with braid but i love throwing fluorocarbon for almost all my jigs if i can get away with it and as always i will have all this information linked below i'll have the jig the rod and reel with that jig as well as the line you need for at least most scenarios so let's hop on the front deck and show you guys how to fish a football jig so the first step in working a football jig is making a long cast football jigs are meant to be i would say almost like very slow water covering lures so you want to cover as much water as possible but of course still retrieving that jig very very slowly with the drag across the bottom and so make a long cast out there as i did and i'm going to let the jig sink to the bottom all the way to the bottom make sure it's there i cannot be more serious about that make sure the jig is on the bottom and then slowly drag the jig across the bottom feeling any grass rocks wood that's down there and i i can't reiterate enough how slowly for the most part you want to retrieve the jig sometimes i'll kind of speed it up give it a little bit of a a jerk or a pull here and there but most times i just want to feel what's down there on the bottom and that is best done with the rod tip down dragging slowly just like this almost always watching my rod tip to see if that rod tip jumps as in a fish taking it taking a swipe at it and oftentimes with a football jig you're not going to feel a distinct thump as you do with let's say a flipping jig you're skipping underneath docks you're just going to kind of feel that jig get heavy and you're going to kind of keep pulling and feel well is that a rock i don't know it doesn't really feel like a rock and it's always good to just set the hook and check oftentimes that's not a rock that's a fish so i'm out of the uh rocky area so i'm gonna reel in gonna make another really long cast move my line over so the jig falls straight and then peel out some line to make sure that thing can get to the bottom oh gosh there's one got it perfect i have pinpointed where the fish are now the last jig on our list in the most specialized in my opinion but definitely has a tendency to catch some really really good fish is the finesse kit [Music] now you'll notice right away the finesse jig is a different style of jig at least in most cases it is a more ball style head it is round this one by outcast here which by the way we have another one coming soon little prototype this one is not the prototype but most finesse jigs are round or round-ish style head and usually meant to be fished on the bottom where they can kind of stand up and just kind of hop slowly across the bottom so i'll show you how i work up an s jig here in a second but it is just a fish catcher when the rest of these jigs are not working when you had a cold front blow through you've got colder water you've got really really clear water and small crawfish and small bluegill i'm talking like one to two inch little bait fish and little crawfish that is where the finesse jig comes into play now the jig on a finesse jig at least this one here is still relatively heavy wire but it's not as heavy wire as some of the other jigs and i know there's a lot of fan sticks out there on the market that have a really really thin wire hooks so when it comes to the gear that i throw a finesse to gone uh it is usually a seven foot medium heavy i don't like to throw a super long rod on it you don't need a heavy action rod for a finesse jig it is a smaller profile jig and thus doesn't necessitate a super strong hook set and especially with how light like this jig here is 3 16 of an ounce i like to throw it on a smaller bait caster or a spinning rod that way i can make long casts with it you'll also notice that the skirt on most finesse jigs is cut on the top so the the bottom side is longer about to the edge of the hook which is actually quite shorter than most jigs are i mean if you look at the football jig the skirt goes a whole inch past the bottom of the hook you only have about at least on this one here maybe half an inch on the top of the finesse jig and it kind of circles and makes a little halo around the jig head that way when it sits on the bottom it just kind of flares out and it's not a huge profile isn't really menacing but gets those fish that are really finicky uh and not quite willing to bite anything else to bite the finesse jake let's finish out the video with a few fish catches and showing you guys how to catch fish on the finesse jig now the finesse jig is not meant to be fished around anything else in my experience besides rocks rocks are where the finesse jig shines and i think that's really the only place i've ever thrown it may be accidentally throwing it around some grass or wood but it does not have usually a thick enough weed guard to stand up to any sort of wooded conditions and the head design does not fit well with grass any sort of ball head or flat head design that this jig has right here just does not fish well around grass so rocks are where it shines we don't have any rocks today we're in minnesota they don't really have a whole lot of whole lot of rock in in the twin cities minnesota so i'm still going to show you guys though how to work it so i'm going to cast the fenestric out there let it sink to the bottom you dingus and one way that helps let us think to the bottom is keeping your bail open don't click your reel and reel in your slack as soon as the bait hits the water you want that bait to fall on a slack line not just to look natural for that the fish that eat it on the drop but also to make sure that your cast is as long as possible because the earlier you you click your reel down the the more your line kind of pendulums that lure back to you and you're going to lose some of your casting distance so stop doing that in every aspect not just finesse jig fishing but any sort of texas rig or jig i'm going to reel down i'm going to put my rod tip at i don't know if you were to look at a clock it's probably 10 or 11 o'clock between those two and i'm just going to kind of shake it very very not i wouldn't say very quickly but very very small little shakes almost like you were doing a shaky head if you were to spin it upside down a shaky head on a spinning rod that's the same thing i'm doing with the finesse jig is i'm barely kind of shaking it like this causing that jig to barely kind of hop along the bottom looks like a little crawfish or a bluegill that's kind of injured and wobbling across the bottom and when i get a bite on a finesse jig i'm not going to reel down and whack on them i'm going to reel down and just kind of lean into them then you can reel down and give them kind of a secondary hook set but usually most finesse jigs don't have a really really heavy wire hook and so you don't want to absolutely rail on them and give them the business small little hops and every i don't know five six seven hops you're going to reel in a little bit of line occasionally you know you can give it a little bit of a bigger hop or maybe you can kind of drag it across the bottom and shake it most of the time i am just doing little tiny shakes much like i'm doing a shaky head but instead it's with a jig so i hope all this stuff made sense to you guys and you learned something in today's video tons of fish catches tons of instruction that's what this channel is all about so if you guys are new here hit that subscribe button if you learned something let me know in the comments because i want to know that what i'm doing is not falling on deaf ears i want to make sure you guys are understanding and learning and becoming better anglers if you guys want to see me cover any of these videos in even more depth i already have the swim jig and plenty on the arky style jigs but of course jigs one of my favorite ways to catch big bass all around the country and i hope it becomes that way for you guys we'll see you next time on trf

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Length: 24min 19sec (1459 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 29 2020