Tag Archive | "swim jig"

Night Fishing 101: Jigs

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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ShareThis video is what the entire “Night Fishing 101″ series has been building toward. For well over a month, I’ve been mulling over what should be covered and how much detail to include. In the end I decided to give you everything. With that in mind there is no way to cover “everything jigs” in [...]

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Sight Fishing: Seeing Pressured Bass

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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ShareTo all of you that live in parts of the country where the water is too murky to sight fish in Spring, I’m sorry. Its a fun and exciting way to fish for a brief part of the year and should be experienced by everyone at least once. However, it can be humbling, will test [...]

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9 Lb Bass Crushes the Swim Jig

Saturday, March 5, 2011

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ShareFor those of you that read the California swim jig post, ran to tackle warehouse and completely wiped out their stock of 3/4 oz California swim jigs, this isn’t for you. But for everyone who ran there and found the baits were already sold out, I thought you might like to see a video that [...]

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California Swim Jigs

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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ShareThe day has finally arrived. For months now I’ve been feverishly waiting to share this secret with the Tactical Bassin community. Many of you know how passionate I am about throwing swim jigs. The trouble is, I don’t follow a lot of the “rules” regarding how they should be fished. I’m a big fish, heavy [...]

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How to Modify a Swim Jig

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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ShareSaying that the big swim jig and switchblade jig have “caught on” would be a gross understatement. Almost overnight everyone seems to be throwing them. Of course, this brings up a whole new assortment of bait and technique related questions. One that has been coming up lately is how to modify the jigs to improve [...]

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Which swimbait should you choose?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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ShareHas anyone else noticed that there are 10 or 20 times the number of swimbaits on the market today than there were 5 years ago? Some of the biggest “brand name” baits in the industry have only existed for a year or two.  What is an angler to do? You can buy every last one [...]

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Rigging the Switchblade Jig

Monday, October 18, 2010

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ShareThe switchblade jig was received with great enthusiasm this past week. Thank you all for the feedback and stories of fishing similar rigs. However, across the board people had questions about how to attach the blade. Rather than try to explain it, we filmed it. Here is a quick tutorial on rigging your switchblade jig [...]

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Another Swim Jig Option: The Switchblade

Friday, October 15, 2010

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ShareFirst off, thank you all for the great feedback on swimming heavy jigs for bass. I’ve already had readers send in photos of bass over 10 lbs from as far away as Florida! I’m so excited to see the technique working nation wide. I’ve had multiple people ask to see the jigs moving in the [...]

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Swim Jigs in Action

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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ShareTo follow up on our earlier post on swim jigs, here’s some on the water footage of swim jigs in action. We were fishing swim jigs along weedlines in clear water, about 6 ft deep, and the bite was on! In case you missed our in depth post on how to fish swim jigs CLICK [...]

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Swimming a Jig For Big Bass

Friday, August 13, 2010

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ShareTacticalbassin became a reality because of this one simple topic. The swim jig is one of my favorite techniques for putting big bass in the boat. Over the last few years I have been reading about how, when, and where to swim a jig. The final conclusion was that if anyone knew how to do [...]

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