Jawjacker rod

[SkunkedAgain]

I built a medium wt glass rod 32" this year that works really well on the jacker, but I also have done well with my ugly stick rods, in fact they are the ones that I have used the most and as long as I don't use jigs with long tails the jackers do pretty well hooking up... I find my jacker ratio is similar to my hand jigging hook up ratio, and sometimes better... If I'm only getting one hit and they are gone, then the jacker does better than I do...

For some reason I haven't done very well with JJ's this year, very few hits on my JJ rods this year, seems like the fish like the random jigging patterns better this year... with long pauses... I do have the jigging bases and have used them all season and haven't done very well with them this year, however on past years they have outfished me many times... I don't know why this year has seemed different for me, but most of my fish have all come on my active rod this year... Maybe the fish are learning what a jigging jaw jacker pattern looks like... Or maybe I'm just psyching myself out... I actually have slowed down on even setting up the second rods lately, because of the lack of success.. but when I head to Strawberry that will change and I'll get them going again... Later Jeff