09-19-2006, 11:20 AM
Alot of good information has been offered. Some of the most important things to watch for is the depth you are in sonar is important so you will know the depth you are in and what depth the fish are in and what part of the water column they are holding. You can be catching them at mid depth in the water column earlier in the day and they could start favoring the bottom.
If you want to catch big numbers you should always hold your pole and have the feel for any thing different. It could be just a tick, added weight or your line going slack from the fish lifting your jig. Most of the time you will want to give the jig a slow jigging motion slowly raising it no more than 6" and letting it flutter back down and always watching for slack while its on the downward motion and always feeling for the tick or added weight when in the upward motion. Staying vertical and knowing where your line is is important also. But mixing it up with a cast and letting it sink and working it back to the vertical position can get some of the lurkers that are out of reach from a vertical presentation. If you are always sitting your pole down you will miss alot of strikes and sometimes you will never know you had one. Ice fishing will be a good time to practice jig fishing for the most part its the same type of fishing year around.
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If you want to catch big numbers you should always hold your pole and have the feel for any thing different. It could be just a tick, added weight or your line going slack from the fish lifting your jig. Most of the time you will want to give the jig a slow jigging motion slowly raising it no more than 6" and letting it flutter back down and always watching for slack while its on the downward motion and always feeling for the tick or added weight when in the upward motion. Staying vertical and knowing where your line is is important also. But mixing it up with a cast and letting it sink and working it back to the vertical position can get some of the lurkers that are out of reach from a vertical presentation. If you are always sitting your pole down you will miss alot of strikes and sometimes you will never know you had one. Ice fishing will be a good time to practice jig fishing for the most part its the same type of fishing year around.
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