jig confidence

[tlrrider]

Embarrassed just to mention it but I have zero confidence in jig and I'm forcing myself to throw it on the delta with no luck so far because I give up and use my confidence baits. But... I am headed to clear lake in a couple of weeks and have the deeper football set up I want to use but I want to flip the shallows as well. By no means am I a marksman with a flipping stick. Thinking 3/8, 1/2 oz jig? Brown purple but don't know what type to pick up. Arkie? Flipping? Weight? Brand? Sorry for rambling. Just fired up. Been a decade since I've been to one of my favorite places since I was a kid. Thanks

[clearlakeoutdoors]

If it stays warm for the next couple weeks you will only need a white jig for bed fishing. For me the best jig bite is after the spawn.Fishing around the shallows 3/8 arkie is good .Around the rocks most guys use a football. Brown and purple or brown and orange will work. Put a beaver on the back and fish it slow.

[zethkinnettfishing]

Personally I like http://www.keitechusa.com/catalog/model ... g-jig.html
but that's a smaller jig than most prefer.
You can use any of the following for flipping
http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Flipping ... IPJIG.html
3/8oz or 1/2 are good to start with. Go practice in the back yard with targets.
You can use a swimbait, creature, craw on the back.
Black and blue, pumpkin, watermelon colors to start or some variation of them.
Be ready for the bite on the fall.

[mark poulson]

If it stays warm for the next couple weeks you will only need a white jig for bed fishing. For me the best jig bite is after the spawn.Fishing around the shallows 3/8 arkie is good .Around the rocks most guys use a football. Brown and purple or brown and orange will work. Put a beaver on the back and fish it slow.

Why a beaver?

[bass king]

When it comes to beaver, you just don't question it man.

[Oldschool]

Learning to jig fish start by using the same technique you do when fishing a Texas rigged worm; cast and retrieve. A very effective jig combo is GYCB 3/8 oz to 3/4 oz black painted plain football jig with wire weed gaurd and a Hula grub. The 4" # 221, 301 and 330 will catch bass nearly anywhere in CA.
Fishing in rocky areas a 3/8 oz is easier to use, the heavier 1/2 & 3/4 oz weights may be need depending on wind or a faster fall to trigger strikes. The 5" Hula grub works when the bass want something larger, start with 3/8 with 4" Hula grubs.
When you are more confident with determing jig strikes and catching bass, then look into high performance jigs like NuTech that go through structure and cover easier without snags and use a wider variety of trailer types. Your goal is catching bass and you will not do that when worrying about losing expensive jigs.
Tom

[ElGuapo]

I was in the same boat as you regarding jig fishing in the Delta. I suck at fishing slow so I had zero confidence in fishing a jig. I went out with Cooch the week before last to learn about jig fishing in the Delta and it helped a ton. Here's a couple videos:

[milehi]

Be aware that when fishing a jig, especially in cooler water, more often than not you're not going to feel or see a thing. Takes awhile to get the feel but it comes. Remember hearing smallmouth guru bill Nichols once say you hear the tick

[clearlakeoutdoors]

If it stays warm for the next couple weeks you will only need a white jig for bed fishing. For me the best jig bite is after the spawn.Fishing around the shallows 3/8 arkie is good .Around the rocks most guys use a football. Brown and purple or brown and orange will work. Put a beaver on the back and fish it slow.

Why a beaver?

I have more confidence with a beaver on a jig at Clearlake than a double tail grub.I have caught lots of fish on a jig with a double tail grub . Just not at Clearlake . Sometimes I will even put the 520 size on the back.

[mark poulson]

If it stays warm for the next couple weeks you will only need a white jig for bed fishing. For me the best jig bite is after the spawn.Fishing around the shallows 3/8 arkie is good .Around the rocks most guys use a football. Brown and purple or brown and orange will work. Put a beaver on the back and fish it slow.

Why a beaver?

I have more confidence with a beaver on a jig at Clearlake than a double tail grub.I have caught lots of fish on a jig with a double tail grub . Just not at Clearlake . Sometimes I will even put the 520 size on the back.

Thanks.

[Bsapp]

I fish Clearlake a couple of days every week. A jig that I always have tied on is a 1/4 ounce football with a Smallie beaver on 10lb flouro. It gets bit. Catches lots of fish a lil smaller and light line try it. Browns and greens and black n blue all work well.

[george]

This time of year can be the best jig fishing you will ever find on Clear Lake, I have caught some toads up there and the jig will catch the big ones during pre-spawn and spawn.
Throw a 3/8 or 1/2 oz football head in brown along with a Zoom Pumpkin Super Chunk trailer or Strike King trailer DB Craw in Pumpkin on 15-20 lb flourocarbon, cover it with Mega Strike craw scent or Smelly Jelly Craw and don't stingy in using it!

Stay off the tully's about thirty feet and cast or pitch to every tully point or pocket that looks like it could be a travel corridor for a bass to move from deep to shallow water.
Hit the outside edge of every flat you can see with tully's on them and fish from deep to shallow and shallow to deep starting out casting and hopping the bait on a fast retrieve and slowing down to a point of letting it sit for five to ten seconds, let the fish tell you what they want!

I throw a NuTech 1/2 oz in Browns and and brown/black in the rocky areas and on rock tully transitions and they eat it big time.
If you stay with the jig all day long I guarantee you will get bit and bites will come in bunches with the quality of fish being really good. Hit every piece of wood you see.

Best of luck, I will be up there in three weeks!

George

[clum553946]

Jig fishing is good this time of year at Clear Lake. Jimmy at Clearlake Bait & Tackle has an excellent selection of Rodstrainer jigs that are one of my favorites to throw here. I'd use 1/2 oz as the wind is starting to pick up & you can always ask Jimmy where they are hitting around the lake!

[ash]

3/8ths oz Arkie style for shallow pitchin and flippin and depths 1-12' going deeper its time for the football head. I have done really well with a cut off brush hog as the trailer, bite the head off right before the arms. Brown Purples have always been kind to me. Sounds like the dads are getting mobile though so that CA 420 beaver is in full effect. A nod also goes to paca chunk in Ockochobee craw.