today. This is candy man, they just cannot resist this, cannot resist it. Come on, don't

go under the boat. It's light line, you gotta take your time getting them in. Look at this,

look at this. Here we go.

Fell victim to a grub here on a jig head. That's were talking about today. Today I'm

gonna show you how to rig it, what type of equipment to use. And then I'm gonna take

you on the water and show you what techniques you can use for fishing a grub on a jig head.

Hey folks, Glenn May, here with BassResource.com. Today I want to talk to you about fishing

grubs. Grubs on a jig head to be specific.

If you're not sure how to rig this, I’ve got a video on how to rig grubs, It's linked

underneath this video here, you can take a look at that later, but right now you talk

to you about the different equipment and terminal tackle to use and then I'm going to take you

out and show you how to fish it.

So first off, what I'm using here is a ball head jig and it's got a wire guard on there.

It's a real light wire hook. It's about a 1/0 hook, thin for finessing but the guard

on there keeps some of the weeds and gunk off of it and prevents it from getting hung

up and stuff.

Tied to it I'm using 6 pound fluorocarbon line. The fluorocarbon gives me gives me that

sensitivity I need to feel those light bites plus it's clearer in water and doesn't get

to be seen as much. It's a little more invisible, if you will. I fish in real clear water so

that's important.

Because we're using real light line we need to match it up with the right rod. So a medium,

light action rod. . . that's the kind that you want, because if you have anything heavier

than that you risk breaking the line or straightening out that hook during the fight and during

the hook set. So medium light action spinning outfit is what we are doing.

Let me tell you little bit about the weight here. This weight is just an eighth ounce

weight. That's a great starting point. Good all round size to use. A lot of the bites

come on the fall, so you want a nice slow fall. You can go up to a quarter ounce weight

if you want. If you're fishing really deep that's not a problem, but I wouldn't really

want to go any higher than that. So you don't need a whole bunch of jig heads. Just get

yourself an eighth ounce, quarter ounce, maybe a three eighth but no, that's even too much.

That's all you need. Simple set up. Now we're ready to go. Now you know the equipment. Now

you know the gear. Let's go out fishing.

All right, so what I'm fishing here is kind of a rocky point, some underwater boulders,

with no weeds, which is a great place to fish this rig. Even though I have a wire guard

here for weeds, I don't have to worry about it because I don't have any weeds.

Really all it takes is a nice light cast you don't want to throw it out really far. Just

throw it out, and then let it sink a little bit and then you're going to reel it back.

That's the first technique I'm going to show you here.

So you just cast that grub out there. Let it fall. I flip the bail, and then all we

are going to do is a steady retrieve. Point the rod tip down towards the water and slowly

bring it back. And try to follow the contour of the bottom. So you might want give it a

little pause, let it sink a little bit and then reel again. And that's all we are going

to do, is follow this point on out and see if there are any fish hanging out on the bottom.

Now the bite sometimes is real subtle, so you have to pay real close attention to feeling

that. So I like to put the rod at a little bit of an angle here. It's a little bit easier

to detect the bite.

Now to set the hook, because this wire, light wire hook it's exposed and you're only using

6 pound test, you don't have to set the hook really hard. Matter of fact if you really

pop it hard, you're just going to break the line or straighten out that hook. So instead

just reel a bit harder, just pull back on it and you will set the hook. It doesn't take

much effort to get that light wire hook to go past the barb in the fish's mouth and then

you have them.

So let me show you one other way I like to fish this. And that is, you throw it out there

and let it fall. In this case you are going to let fall way to the bottom, so when you

do pay real close attention to that line. If there are any fish that hits it while it’s

falling the line will pop, twitch, jump, jerk, do something like that. If that happens you

want to set the hook.

Now it's at the bottom, all you're going to do it point the rod tip down towards the water

and now lift it up to about the 11 o'clock position and then let it fall. And all I'm

doing is I'm letting, I'm following the drop with the rod tip and I'm reeling up the slack

as I do it. I'm not moving the bait ahead with the reel, I'm doing that with the rod.

So just lift up, slowly, and just let it fall, flutter right back down. A lot of times those

bites occur right as the bait is falling.

And that's really all there is to it to fishing grubs, it’s very simple, straightforward.

The thing about though, here's a little tip, if you're catching fish on crankbaits, matter

of fact this is a really good place to . . . anywhere you throw crank baits, that's where you want

to throw this, but if you are catching fish on crankbaits and the bite dies off. Pick

up a grub and go back through those areas and you will start catching fish again. So

you can cover a lot of water doing it this way, too. Great way to catch a lot of fish.

Now, I'll fish a little bit differently in the summer than I do in say the spring. In

the summer I'm fishing a little bit deeper. I'm fishing main lake points, I might fish

humps, that sort of thing. Whereas in the spring I will go shallow, I will go back to

coves, flats, secondary points, those are the things I will be targeting. Great bait

to use during those times of the year especially when the fish are active and feeding on bait

fish.

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