Need some help on how to fish a jig.

[Col Forbin]

I catch the bulk of my jig fish on the retrieve. Sometimes hopping, sometimes dragging - Jigs are a good crawfish imitation (a year round bass food supply). I also catch some swimming a jig. Strike king/KVD makes a good swimming jig. When I am swimming a jig, I usually go with a trailer with a little more action than a chunk like a curly tail grub, or some of those kicking frog trailers zoom makes. I think that is one of the great things about a jig, their versatility - there are endless combinations/applications. Everytime I go fishing with a jig fisherman, I learn something new. There is not much that compares with the feeling of solid hookset on a jig, especially when you get one of those fiesty brown ones.

[joeyblueblood]

I catch the bulk of my jig fish on the retrieve. Sometimes hopping, sometimes dragging - Jigs are a good crawfish imitation (a year round bass food supply). I also catch some swimming a jig. Strike king/KVD makes a good swimming jig. When I am swimming a jig, I usually go with a trailer with a little more action than a chunk like a curly tail grub, or some of those kicking frog trailers zoom makes. I think that is one of the great things about a jig, their versatility - there are endless combinations/applications. Everytime I go fishing with a jig fisherman, I learn something new. There is not much that compares with the feeling of solid hookset on a jig, especially when you get one of those fiesty brown ones.

Col (or anyone)...describe exactly what you mean by "swimming" the jig. do you just cast and reel it back,or do you swim it off the bottom and then let it drop? I have heard about this before and I was wondering.
Forgive me but I have only in the last 2 years become serious about my fishing. I have all but quit golf as a result....LOL

[Col Forbin]

Not really as simple as cast and reel it in. I just reel, pause, reel, pause, twitch the rod a little. Every once in a while I will let it fall sometimes to the bottom especially if I am running past some cover. I was paired up in a tournament with a pro that did a lot of this last year, and I had some good luck with it as well. Try it out in the spring (april )when the typical spinnerbait bite is on, and the bass are seeing several dozen spinnerbaits a day. I've even had blow-ups on jigs thinking I was past the strike zone and burning it in.