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Swimming Jigs for Bass
Posted by: Glenn Walker Updated: October 8, 2009 - 10:00 PM
Swimming a jig is a technique that was made popular by some of the top bass fisherman on the Upper Mississippi River, but its impact has stretched across the nation! Top anglers from Canada all the way down to Florida and Texas rely on this technique and lure to put bass in their boats all year long.
Up until this year, I have just used the RC Tackle Swim Jig for shallow water on the Mississippi River, but this year fishing the lakes in Minnesota I refined this technique to deeper water. By using a bigger 3/8 oz. jig, compared to my normal 1/4 oz. jig and varying retrieves helped make this a successful tactic for me this season.
Instead of me writing more about this lure and technique, I urge you to take a look at this video that takes a look at the jig and technique!!
Silverado Pro-Am Tournament Championship
Posted by: Glenn Walker Updated: September 20, 2009 - 12:20 PMThe highlight of pre-fishing was when I hooked into a beautiful 47 inch Muskie, this was my first big Muskie I have ever caught and boy was that fun to bring in! This Muskie along with numerous bass I caught on docks and shallow weedlines came on an RC Tackle Swim Jig both in 1/4 and 3/8 oz. size.
Last weekend in the tournament I caught some nice bass on a Texas-rigged craw and did get a few on this pre-fishing. I found it was important to use a heavy wire Eagle Claw extra wide gap hook in 4/0 or 5/0. Fishing for these bass and using heavy braided line is why I needed that heavy hook.
But I knew come tournament day, my best chance to hook into the bigger bass on Tonka, using a jig was going to be my best bet. So I rigged up a 1/2 oz. RC Tackle Jig with a RC Tackle Smallie Beaver as my trailer. Using this jig helped me get 3 of our 6 bass limit that weighed in at 16.03 lb. 6-fish limit. This put us in 5th place and being that we didn't miss or lose any bass all day, it was a great day on the water.
Congratulations to Shane Raveling and his am Jeff Ziermann for bringing in 21.62 lb.'s to win the championship!
Being my first year fishing the Silverado Pro-Am and even wetting a line on these lakes, I felt I had a successful year with a 9th place finish at Minnewaska and ending up 24th in the standings was great, but to get the chance to fish the Championship and finish 5th is truly awesome!!
I want to thank all of the Silverado sponsors for their support and help in making this tournament trail truly the best in the Midwest!!
I also want to thank all my sponsors for their support and helping me be successful in 2009: Eagle Claw, Quantum, RC Tackle, Seaguar, TRICOR Insurance.
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