Swim Jig

Plug fishing for bass can be a good combination of fun. Using spinning reels on the bars of light is a good way to prevent and fight the fish, much more fun than using heavy wire rods to catch them. The technique used to retrieve the plugs are all to be successful in catching fish. You not only they are cast and then reel them straight to the boat.

Many bait fish are in the habit of pressing when swimming. What that means is that swim fast, then slow, then fast. This is because when they are running for their lives simply can not maintain full speed swimming speed. This behavior instinctively known by their predators, and stripers, as they came over during the slowdown. This is almost without exception. So if you simply connect the reel at a constant speed, the only fish that are going to catch Kamikaze, and not all fish are kamikazes. Knowing the habits of bait helps understand how to retrieve the plug.

For Swimming caps, the best technique is to recover the fast April 4 slow method. This is four laps of fast start, followed by 4 rounds of slow start. It is much easier than the template and reel down approach that some experts use, and gives a very similar effect in the socket. Most of the time you get hit in the back of the slowdown. This recovery may be varied in order to find what is best. Sometimes need to recover very fast, then slow, sometimes just a very quick recovery works. Blend until you find what you are looking for fish.

Surface swimmers as Junior Atom Atom or 40 should be retrieved slowly with occasional jig without interruption in the winding.

Walking plugs like the Super Magnum Zara Spook is recovered with a constant rocking motion, reeling. That is, they are reeling and jigging rod with templates to plug short zig-zag across the surface of water. You are always reeling and jigging. What so fast this zigzag is done depends on the amount of light and force of the tide. When you are out too bright or the tide is slow to recover very slowly, and when it's cloudy and the tide is running fast to retrieve the first five or ten feet then lower to medium speed.

Poppers recovered by winding the line and then jerking short template for the pop plug.

The best thing is to use braided line for this type of fishing. 30-pound braid works well, with race leader monofilament 20-40 pounds 6 'long tied to the braid with a uni knot to uni. Then, the plug must be linked directly to the leader with a fisherman's knot, do not use a turn complement of any kind. These can make it easy to change the plugs, but only kamikaze fish hit them.

You should always consider what the fish feed on when you decide what type and color of the cap to be used. This is known as a "matching the hatch and on some days is the only way to catch fish.

What do you do when the fish hits your plug, but do not get hooked? You need to respond to the positive response in some way. With a swimmer, the answer that works most of the time is very fast to four rods, then four cranks slow, and then return to the pace you were using before the coup. Most of the time as soon as slow from 4 fish very fast rods became a hit. When this does not always work, try to recover a constant slow with short templates, as if the fish is injured. If this does not work after few seconds, returns to the quick method 4-4 slow.

With the surface swimming plugs, use the constant slow winding short templates after being hit as if the fish is injured. If this does not work in the first few seconds, you regain your normal.

With the cap of walking, there are many ways of reacting to an outcome for a successful connection and this can change from day to day and the oil for no reason. First attempt to stop the plug, then working slowly, then return to normal operation. Try many variations until you find out what they want.

So the next time you are fishing to address some of these techniques and see if they do not work for you.

Block Island Fishing Charters is Chris's business as he is a very successful fishing captain in the Ocean state. His success with Point Judith Fishing Charters encouraged his father to join him in this fishing endeavor. Before he became a fishing guide, Chris had many other jobs including a prototype modelmaker, PC support specialist, network admin, and programmer. He also designs and build fishing websites for Rhode Island captains.

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