How to pitch and flip for big bass

hey youtubers I'm gonna show you a thing or two on this flipping and pitching that's really my force my I'm a I'm a power fisherman back in the 80s and 90s and 2000's I want a lot of big tournaments and I still catch a lot of my fish in fact if I were to say what catches the most fish and the most tournaments its power fishing by flipping this jig in too heavy cover like at local lake okeechobee drop driving in the big patches of hydrilla big big huge areas of hyacinths pitching in logs and stumps and stuff at santa cooper the trees that sam rayburn in Toledo Bend I mean there's so many places you can fish heavy cover with heavy equipment like this let me let me explain the rod and reel this is a seven and a half foot the flare this is a flares flipping in frog and stick it's a seven and a half foot rod heavy heavy duty I got I got a fifty pound test line on this one I have an eight one reel and on this jig which is it could be a crawler it could be a regular plastic worm I'm just choosing a half ounce jig it happens to be black and blue which is my favorite color with a big trailer now why do I flip well first of all there's a lot of big fish that want overhead cover now it's a sunny day today and I have these sunglasses on you know what bass don't have eyelids they can't close your eyes now where's the bass gonna do on a bright sunny day like today he's gonna go underneath the shade of some kind of shady spot that's where he's gonna be he's gonna be way underneath a log or a bush or stump underneath some grass and he's gonna be hiding and protecting his eyes from the overhead Sun because they just don't like direct light so you have to look for the best cover you can find you know I remember one time I was down at Lake Lanier and I went into a cove in a tournament and I caught a couple bass I came back the next day and a beaver hit shut cut down a tree the tree fell out in the cove I went past a tree and I caught like one bass and I went came back out of the cold and I said to myself maybe there's bass in that tree the beavers have just cut it down there's a bunch of leaves lugging around little ants and bugs from the tree are floating on top of the water the tree hasn't been in the water maybe an hour so so whatever I do I pulled up to the tree with a similar setup like this and caught seven bass on that tree that hadn't been in the water but like an hour almost won the tournament so that tells you that bass go to cover I mean they really seek out the heavy governor today I'm gonna show you how to flip and pitch there's two kinds of fishing here one is a pitching and one's flipping out a flip it's a closer range deal I'm going to take the line pull it out like this and I'm gonna swing it out and just kind of just go right into the end of the cup missed at that time but watch this boom now what was the advantage here well first of all accuracy look how accurate it is now just say just say let's let's talk about what flipping is just say I didn't flip this just say I've cast a garage I came like this and I casted it but that wasn't very close try try again that one very close shut again oh well but when I flip what you acted it is and in there a perfect perfect quiet presentation now let's go a little farther let's move it after a real respectable casting distance let's see okay to flip I pull the line out with my hand swing it watch it right in there so on now did you notice the other thing the quiet presentation now there's a big bass laying underneath that big bunch of logs and stuff in there I don't want to go splashing in with an overhand cast first of all the overhand cast is gonna miss but the overhand cast is gonna go clunk big splash in the water lots of noise it's not what you want what you want is a quiet presentation did you swing that right in there it just barely made a ripple in the water it came in real soft and real easy now why don't I want 50 pound line why don't want to be rod I'm a 200-pound guy what do I have to do that why can't I use tin foil on you can't get a big 5 or 6 pound bass or better out of a bunch of logs with 10 pound line you're gonna help you got to miss half of them I'm gonna get them all out pretty much every one of them with 50 to 65 pound braid I'm gonna I'm gonna bust him out of it that's all there is to it okay now so what was the advantage here the advantage of flipping there's number one power I get a big rod big heavy line number two it's an accurate presentation and number three one of the most important things it's a quiet presentation okay there's a second way of doing this it's called flipping and pitching now flipping I showed you by pulling the rod like this I swing it like this and then do the end of the cup okay that's that's flippin very accurate very quiet very powerful now let's move that cup a little farther now it's like 25 feet away again they follow it up making overhand cast it's big splash not accurate I can do a flip maybe but there's another way efficient and that's called pitching so when you pitch I take the line kind of it the real push the button and watch it I swing it right into the cup almost this quieter presentation has a little bit more velocity it's not quite as quiet it's almost as quiet as flipping but it's it's almost as accurate as foot but actually the most accurate is closer with your flip but say if you want to get back and go twenty-five or thirty feet you do the pitch and that's accurate as well almost is accurate now here's the thing of a pitching listen let's move back let's just move back let's move back over here now we're 35 feet away that's a long past that's a long cast again if I were to cast in there because bang I missed it made a big splash I can't flip because it's too far to flip I can only go like 25 to 26 feet flipping so that's 35 feet watch this right in there a perfect shot now it wasn't at 35 feet you don't have the quiet presentation of you had it at 15 or 20 feet with that flip or with the pitch you make a little bit more splash but you have the accuracy and you have the power and you have a fairly quiet presentation so I'm just have to impress on on you that if you really want to step up there a fishing game and that can capitalize on all the fish in the lake because see the average guy goes to the farm pond and he looks around the lake and he says maybe a patch of lily pads okay you might throw to the edge of it he might throw a sinker out there I might throw a top order out there a lot of people aren't looking at the heaviest cover in the lake the thickest spot of weeds and taking a big flippin stick or a big pitching setup like this with a big jig a big plastic worm a big craw a big heavy line and throwing pitching right into the thickest stuff there is now I mean they go one step farther what kind of presentation do I have once it's in the water once I've thrown it somewhere what do I do say I picked you out there okay what's this for this is actually just a button this is a favorite rod but I put this I put this this ugh button on every case I'm kind of little overweight I put the rod but right here in my stomach now I'm anchored really well so for the ultimate amount of power to get the ultimate amount of ability to pull them out to those Long's coming out through those weeds and logs and and thick thick stuff underneath of the docks you you have to have the rod anchor down yeah I don't maybe maybe twenty or thirty years ago when I was stronger I had enough upper-body strength but I'm an old man yeah I don't have the strength and power I had passed thirty years old so I need some help my help is right here in the stomach I get this rod anchored down like this and now I'm ready to keep the rod kind of low because on a jig bite hey there's nothing there's nothing finesse about this they grab this jig they pretty much have the hook so the second they hit the jig you gotta set the hook you can't be sitting a while I think that's a strike don't don't do it like a worm this isn't like a worm a jig is something that you have to instantly set the hook on you have the rod in a strike position which is a 45 degree angle or lower and I'm not higher I'm not higher than 45 degrees when I'm fishing a jig I'm lower than 45 degrees but this is a heavy enough rod this Flair slipping and froggen is it heavy enough rod then at 45 degrees I still have enough backbone in here to properly set the hook and with this heavy 50 pound braid I have the ability to really shock them but I might drop it just a little bit and accept the hook I might pause just for a second just for a second but not very long now what about overhead cover that's another really challenging thing let's look at this boat for example now there's if if this if this real big old dock or something right here and this with hard be hard to cash to in other words if I tried to cast to it there's no way I could throw I can't throw into that I mean I just can't far thee I mean I can't I can't get in there very good but with it with the flip for example say I'm gonna flip it I take the rod like this pull my line out watch see watch this I want you to flip it in there right in there quiet accurate presentation underneath the dock underneath the bush a real impossible kind of cast you can only achieve those kind of cast by pitching or flipping I can do the same thing pitching I could back up a few feet that's a 30-foot pitch right in there so it's a core to pitching and flipping underneath the docks underneath the bushes underneath the trees well that's just kind of a primer but I just want to impress upon you that there's so many places in this country and so many lakes from California to Connecticut where there's plenty of fit cover and there's always like the biggest bass of the pond of the river of the lake is sometimes in the thickest spot there is and to get them out of there hey he needs a big heavy tackle you need a good jig worm or a crawl worm and you need to learn how to pitch and flip so I hope I've helped you out a little bit I enjoy doing these YouTube videos these how-to things are always good so subscribe to my channel I'm posting everything every Wednesday evening and every Sunday evening we hope to see you there thank you

Channel: Roland Martin Outdoors

Views: 44,336

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Keywords: Bass Pro Shops, Favorite Rods, Roland Martin, Roland Martin outdoors, Scott Martin, Scott Martin Challenge, NBC Sports Network, Nitro Boats, Tracker Marine, Big Bass, Pitching and Flipping, Heavy cover

Id: iQhXPpu6zfw

Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2019