[thedude]

you can honestly fish a TYPE of jig in every type of situation and catch fish.
Football heads w/ craw trailers are great for open water, rocks and 'hard structure'. In weeds and sticks, move to conical shaped jig with a decent brush guard. For the nasty stuff, get a 1/2-3/4oz cone-shaped jig and flip it to holes in the pads or into heavy brush. Any place you would fish a moving bait, try a swim jig with a yammamoto curly tail grub or a swim senko trailer.

A black n blue jig with a pork frog trailer is always a tried and true pattern for BIG fish.

A few tips that will help your catch rate
1. trim the skirt to within a couple millimeters of the bottom of the hook.
2. Trim back the brush guard so that it is just a hair longer than the hook point, the thick factory brush guards often make it hard to keep a fish stuck.

[livelybaits]

I'm kind of different compared to most on this site. I'm all saltwater for snook, redfish and speckled trout down here.

But I use jigs almost exclusively. "Confidence" was already mentioned. Use them until you have "go to" jigs. The other thing is to pay attention to the movement you were giving the lure when you actually got a fish to take a swipe at it. If you can emulate that movement again, you'll probably get another fish to do the same thing.

There are different techniques for different situations down here which I'm sure is the same for you guys. I teach people "finesse" techniques. For the fish down here, finesse means "slow" but with variables such as "hard twitches" when you know a snook is interested in the lure.

[Gloomisman]

Joe S wrote this and its a good little article.

Jig fishing - American Anglers Fishing Network

[BobP]

Hopping, dragging, stroking, deadsticking, swimming - you name it and there's guys doing it with a jig. Basically, any retrieve you use with a worm or other plastic can be used on a jig, so there's no wrong way to fish it - except the one the bass won't bite today. I fish 3/4 oz football jigs in deep water 15-35 ft. Usually with a skirt and a Netbait Paca Chunk Jr or a Zoom Superchunk Jr. I use short hops and pauses to keep in contact with the bottom before trying other retrieves. For shallow wood cover, lighter jigs with more streamlined shapes do better and don't get hung up as much. Flip it in there, let it drop through the cover to the bottom, then hop it once or twice before retrieving it and making a new pitch. When bass are hunkered down in heavy cover, nothing gets to them and gets their attention faster than a jig.

[Kajan]

Originally Posted by livelybaits

I'm kind of different compared to most on this site. I'm all saltwater for snook, redfish and speckled trout down here.

But I use jigs almost exclusively. "Confidence" was already mentioned. Use them until you have "go to" jigs. The other thing is to pay attention to the movement you were giving the lure when you actually got a fish to take a swipe at it. If you can emulate that movement again, you'll probably get another fish to do the same thing.

There are different techniques for different situations down here which I'm sure is the same for you guys. I teach people "finesse" techniques. For the fish down here, finesse means "slow" but with variables such as "hard twitches" when you know a snook is interested in the lure.

Purdy much how it is for me also, except da' snook part



And here we call dem Crawfish and ours are brown- Dark red and they are bon' to eat bou'cou'