One of the Most Deadly Bass Fishing Technique's in the WORLD

[Music] what's up everybody welcome back today we are going to talk about swim jigging and everything you need to know listen we've had a few tournaments with a little tournament vlogs we do this and do that but i try to keep things very informative on the channel so i'm gonna go through everything that i know for the most part most of what i know about swim jigs and how and when to use them now the big thing with swim jigs is picking a trailer and also picking a jig out so let's dive into it right now i got a whole multiple different jigs set up right here i've actually forced one jig set up with different trailers different the combination of it all i'm gonna explain real quick here let's dive into it okay so basically real quick here on swim jigs it's very simple each swim jig is is not necessarily created equal this one right here is a green bait swim jig he has a little bit wider wire hook so i like him for fluorocarbon um and this is like my 7 3 medium heavy action rod that's what i like sort of set up on him so the lighter the wire the hook in it the more of the fluorocarbon jig the thicker the hook like this terminator jig right here i got braid on him that's sort of like the heavy cover hook this is sort of like your all-around good swim jig you got grass offshore you can switch them in heavy cover but you might bend him out on on on the on the applications throwing braid so i try to sort of tend to stay away from it if it doesn't have a decent hook or doesn't have a thicker gauge wire hook doesn't mean it's bad just means that it's not necessarily a heavy cover swim jig okay now as far as trailers go it's all dependent on the cover that you're fishing for me if i want to have more lift i go with the crack and crawl so like right here i got to crack and crawl it's like what i'm going to do like the alabama swim jig and i'm swimming him i go with i go with him because i want more lift on him um so up shallower two foot or less that's what i personally like if i want to go deeper let's say i'm out here in the middle of this this grass flat right now i'm gonna go with the swim bait here's like a largo shot there's a four inch largo on him and then there's a little three inch largo and those are going to be on fluorocarbon most of the time because i'm i'm reeling them out here and i can fish them in six and seven foot of water and i'll explain to you guys i'll show you cast wise what we're talking about too and then last but not least is like a jig chunk or like a bandito bug a banditos bug doesn't have a lot of drag to him like crack and crawl does bandeau bug does not he's more like a chunk a typical chunk flaps a little bit but he doesn't have a lot of drag so it allows you to keep him deeper so those are really the the main three chunks or three types of soft plastic that i fish when i'm and i'm throwing a swim jig it's very simple um as far as colors you can see i have everybody understand browns black blues uh whites a white chartreuses i keep it very simple depending on the watercolor the more clear it is obviously i go more natural if there's a shad spot i try to go white just textbook stuff so i keep a lot of swimsuits in my boat but overall i tend to go back to the few things the black and the blues the green pumpkins and really the white so let's make a few casts i'll explain to you and cast and retrieves and what makes these setups a little bit different okay so swim jigging doesn't mean that you always are just swimming you know doesn't mean you always have to be reeling this is a small little quarter ounce swim jig normally i'll fish him you know in four foot or less on bigger grass flats and i'll show you what i'm talking about that's the bandito bug right here so i'll work him a little differently i'll throw him out there let him fall i like to get him to the bottom and it's sort of like a just a little i'll swim him and i'll pump him i'll just sort of swim him i'm sort of swimming i'm swimming swimming swimming swimming some swim killing swimming killing i'm allowing this bait that i'm actually out here in eight foot of water so i'm gonna need a little bit heavier swim jig for the most part normally but i'll sort of swim him around that stuff and i can even use a cracking craw for this application but if i want to get a maximum depth say you're fishing on a grass edge in 8 to 12 foot of water i want something that doesn't have as much drag i want something has action but i don't want something that has a lot of drag so as far as rod set up 7-3 this is my medium heavy action casting rod right here um this is a three to one gear ratio paradigm casting reel there's a little bit of grass see that's what that's what we're fishing down there those fish are probably set up down there in that grass get them out there let them fall back down but that's really what it is you don't when you want less drag on your bait you want to get that jig down there a little bit deeper and you're hopping and a lot of times even like when i said when you swim in it you would not think this is swimming a jig necessarily but a lot of times it's a very effective technique when you're fishing anywhere around the country potomac river chickamauga way up north minnesota new york it just seems to catch fish especially in the scattered stuff so you'll see i'm sort of swimming them around and i'm letting them fall back down to the bottom and so just sort of swim you're swimming in but you're not that alabama shake or anything like that so that's sort of the first one we'll see if we can get a bite on them so i can show you sort of what i'm talking about but at least you can see what i'm what i'm doing and at least sort of get a really good feel for you know what what i'm talking about and what the advantage is to throwing that bandito bug on the back versus you know say a crack and crawl um or something that has to have a little bit more drag it's almost like you're fishing a jig but you're it's a swim jig and i'll swim if i get in a little bit of grass i might snap him pop him up all right that's sort of what you need to know it's sort of like a pump a shake a little bit different smaller swim jig you know a little bit lighter wire hook for fluorocarbon hook there's a four carbon hook there's a braid hook remember that it's very important all right number two this is just like a regular swim jig it's got a little bit bigger hook on him but i got a four inch largo shed it's actually a perch color largo shed um more looking like a bluegill so now this guy's a little bit different i fish them a little bit differently and i have a three inch largo on as well now the four inch has a little bit more thump so they're basically the same thing and all i do with him is very simple it's a swim bait it's basically a swimbait but it's a swim jig so it's going to go through that stuff pretty well swimming around and now i will throw braid on this technique and on this particular setup it just depends on that hook's a little bit larger for for a fluorocarbon hook but i will there's times i will throw braids so just just letting you guys know but as far as the retrieve is really what i want to talk about because the retrieve is really the key you're just simply winding it letting it fall like go down the bottom and you're just winding it in this is a great grass fishing technique if you don't catch them doing the the pump and the shake out there on the edges of stuff and you want to switch it up with a swim jig biggest thing is when somebody your buddy says hey i'm catching my swim you say are you using a crawler are you using a swimbait because that's a very different technique or a very different action on that bait when you do that so you reel this thing around and it's very simple which is a cast retrieve cast and retreat and this is like obviously a deal they catch them like this in florida they catch them like this all over the country but it's definitely something that uh if you're looking for more of that roll action what is happening is your your swim jig is rocking a lot more now so swim bait allows that swimbait to rot that allows that swimsuit to rock a lot more and shake and shimmy and that's what that's why that that bait does so well now when you go to a smaller swimbait you know if the fish are say the fish are in you know the fall transition they're eating small threadfin shad that's what i'm gonna put this four inch swim bait down if they're using heat normally eating like thread or or gizzards or bigger bluegill that's when i throw the four inch but when they're eating the smaller bait that's what i'm gonna throw the smaller one now one of my favorite setups is actually throw a shad colored largo shad on a goo down this little googan black and blue swim jig i'm really a black and with swimsuit in general but that is a really good swim jig what and what i do is same thing same thing exactly with the bigger one and all these are seven three medium heavy action my super serious seven three meaning heavy actions seven three to one gear ratio i will go to eight three to one um and i will go to six three to one if i want to fish a little bit deeper and i feel like i'm going too fast i will go to a six three to one gear ratio if i'm fishing out there and see i'm sitting right here in about six foot of water and i'm firing around now this is a lot different this is a lot of subtler but it's not going to have as much of an aggressive roll because you have that small little kick it's just going to be like a real small kicking action so when the fish are eating small threadfin shad or they just get a little bit fickle and you want a little bit smaller presentation this is the direction that i will go casting it around firing it around and that it seems to work very very well now this is not saying that i don't throw a swim bait trailer in that kind of setup right there there's some flooded bushes i'm about to show you here in a second we're gonna switch up to the to the cracking crawl on the back of a swim jig and more of the heavy cover setup but what i'm saying is more than anything is that swim bait bait's going to allow you to keep them down a little bit it's more of a cast a real technique and i will reel them around like isolated clumps i'll fish them up shallow but this is more so for that scattered grass or if you're fishing in tennessee river winding them around on those grass spots it's a good technique to catch some fish i mean you got some lily pads right here and this is when i start to start to think about some start to think about a little bit of brave they get they get up in him they get up in this little setup little one so now that you sort of see that those are the basically the three i mean you know a larger swim bait smaller swimbait now onto the crack and crawl heavy cover action stuff and more of the alabama shake dc's big on this you see them cracking them all the time now with this i'm going to switch up my rod setup just a little bit because i want a little bit softer tip this is my 7 2 medium heavy action rod it has a softer tip has more of a shut off so it's a little bit different than the medium heavy rod that i use for most of my other techniques that's the same rod the 73 medium heavy is the rod i use for most of my chatter baits my vibrating jigs um but this one right here you know when i'm using braid i want a little bit softer of a rod tip of course this smoked it right there just like that and that's the reason why you use brave now this one right here got him now this is actually a new terminator jig that's coming out ought to foe oh he was not coming off designed this one and this is like what i would say is a braided jig hook you see how it's a little bit bigger gauge and this is actually a soft a soft weed guard so when you hook them it doesn't take a whole lot to crack them it's a pretty good fish though right there now i'm gonna go down through here and see sort of talk about this a little bit so that fish was right there around those lily pads see how many of them are up here shallow eating these bluegill oh i just cracked my cracking crawl got cracked i'm going to grab another cracker real quick now as far as braid as far as line size what i use i normally throw a 30 to a 40 pound braid 30 pound braid cast better the lighter the braid the better it can so i try to throw 30 pounds suffix 832 or performance braid there's some new lines coming out to tell you guys about a little bit later obviously you could tell with a heavy cover the reason i got a little bit more line or a little bit heavier line you know as far as as far as the casting side and the fluorocarbon side i know i didn't go through that i tried to go with 14 out deeper on the outside edges of stuff and then 17 on the in between stuff so that's normally what i'll try to do and the cool thing about this is you'll see i'm shaking him i'm throwing slack at him now i'm not i'm keeping this one down a little bit more and you can throw other crawl type trailers there's trailers that have even more resistance than say this cracking crawl does so there's stuff that you can get out there if you wanted to like have even more like you wanted to fish a swim jig like a top water you know you could throw a bigger paddle tail bear crawl type trailer and get that higher lift but for the most part crack and crawl standard all around you guys see me throwing quite a bit all my swim jigs like he just has a good little kick to him only gets mommy gets pretty pretty pretty pretty much gets fit you all could tell you guys that could definitely tell i wanted to get to the bank i love casting up shallow that was cool a little one right there way back up in this trees here for sure so where the alabama shake gets its name is the fact that you are flat you are really slapping or not slapping i would say you are really throwing slack back at the bait so i'll throw him out there and i'm shaking him trying to keep him up most of the time this is a technique that's used pretty high in the water column top foot pretty much this is a foot or less you know you're keeping it up high and a lot of times these fish will bite it pretty high up i mean it's going to be a deal where you shake it there and you're just you know i'll shake him over the top of a lot of that grass almost like you would a frog or a reeling frog and that's what you sort of get you know you could do the alabama shake a little bit deeper oh that's how much smoke right there that was a guard or there's a pike there we go stole my name stuff again all right now if i'm gonna recommend two swim jigs that i think you guys should grab a hold of um as far as the heavy cover one i would say definitely check out this this terminator and this new terminator swim jig and then on as far as the fluorocarbon one i'm telling you that that googan swim jig is really good it's the right hook it's the right size weights they have some good colors in him hand tied skirt they did a really good job with that they really did i got to give them props on that one for sure so you really need a bolt you can't sort of get by with just a fluorocarbon swim jig or just a heavy cover swim jig unless you're you're going to do that one thing man that's like a squeaky let's see how many of them up here shallow that's why you have that braid right there not the biggest one but thanks baby and i'll tell you what i really actually prefer i'm throwing a 3 8 right now i prefer a quarter shallow i like to almost float him because the water gets colder like or you haven't pre-spawned when you're you're trying to keep that bait in the strike zone you don't really want to catch them a lot of times you're not going to have them blow it up out of the water in 52 53 54 degree water so you want to have it to where it stays you know six seven eight inches maybe even a foot underneath the water and for me a quarter or even a 5 16 is the way to go so that's what i would recommend you know i don't i personally don't throw any heavy swim jigs like three quarters or anything like that not saying that that can't be a great application to use it but for me most of the time it's either right there i sucker smoked it um there we go all right that's how you give a swim jig you know it's just uh hey there's multiple different ways to fish him and i'm sure there's ways that i do not fish him that i should so let me drop a comment below letting me know the way your favorite way of fishing a swim jig maybe there's a new way that i can learn from you thank you guys so much for watching let this little guy go we're gonna catch a few more you

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Length: 17min 30sec (1050 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2020