I'm new to fishing with a jig, as I have always used live bait before. Besides tying the jig to the end of the line, what else if anything else needs to go on my line? Do I need sinkers?
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I'm new to fishing with a jig, as I have always used live bait before. Besides tying the jig to the end of the line, what else if anything else needs to go on my line? Do I need sinkers?
Posted by Crazy-Cat3847738
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No. Just scooch it and swim it in little bursts like a crawdad.
Crawfish trailer or some sort of creature bait usually does pretty good for me, sometimes they like the slower sink of a lighter jig or the bottom contact of a heavier faster sinking one
Just the jig buddy.
Sometimes people use trailers too. It’s a soft plastic you put on the jig hook like this.
https://preview.redd.it/a2brb4w42r1h1.jpeg?width=770&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa3069ca862a3fd055b5ca8b6e4414378fbc0d42
You can catch fish without the trailer, but the trailer makes it easier for fish to see and the little fins on a creature bait (anything like these that vaguely resemble a crawfish) will float up once your jig hits the bottom and make it look more like a crawfish.
You can leave it as is, or put on a plethora of different trailers on the back. I would start with just the jig as it is now and work it low and slow across the bottom, twitching or slow steady retrieve to figure out how the fish want it. You could put a crawfish soft plastic or a paddle tail on the back as well, see what works best. Experimenting and continuing through failure is the part of fishing some people don’t get. Usually there’s not a right answer when it comes to fishing
I think the very first way someone should learn to fish for bass is with a plastic worm. That being said, a great starting point would be a Zoom Trick worm in watermelon green, texas rigged with either a 3/16’s or 1/4 oz bullet weight with an EWG (extra wide gap) offset shrank worm hook. Throw it everywhere at everything. Logs, stumps, downed trees, sea walls, creek mouths, drainage pipes, etc. You’ll catch bass.