Jigging Is Still the Fastest Way to Fill a Bucket

There’s nothing more frustrating then catching five fish in twenty minutes while your buddy can’t buy a bite for three hours. He’s not unskilled. Or lazy. But he’s not matching his method with condition. There’s a common perception that jig fishing is technical and twitchy. It is more aggressive than the patient artistry of bottom … Read more

Fly Patterns That Fool Crappie

As any crappie or bass angler will tell you, crappie are notorious for being finicky; you can stand there looking at bunch of them as they’re feeding and they won’t touch your offering if it’s radioactive. Most times the line between a limit catch and bird food turns around our ability to mimic existance confidences … Read more

Adding a Spinner to a Crappie Jig

When you throw a jig down there and it goes through water column and you don’t see anything, you’re frustrated by that lack of fish activity. Often crappie is suspending in open water or around what we think is structure but we can’t see it from surface. That nice looking jig blends right into background … Read more

Hair Jigs Still Have a Place in the Box

If you’ve opened a tackle box over the past ten years, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll spot one, a hair jig. A tuft of marabou wrapped around a weighted hook. It appears basic. For many fishermen, it’s an old bait. Social media is flooded with all sorts of fancy moddern baits, but the hair … Read more