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All right guys we're out here power fishing today. Fishing slop, fishing junk. When they won't come up and eat a topwater, these two baits right here are awesome alternatives to get those fish to come and commit and react to the bait and they go through the heavy cover very efficiently. That's the key part. They get in and out and they don't hang up. First one being a swim jig. That's a 3/8 ounce swim jig.
Dirty Jig No-Jack Swim Jig with a Strike King Rage Menace Grub on the back of it. And the second bait is a Gambler Big EZ. The way you rig the Big EZ, you take a 16-ounce tungsten bullet weight, put it on your line, unpegged. That way when you kill it over a hole in the grass it falls straight down in rather than gliding through it. Six ought screw lock hook, Gamakatsu Superline, bury it in there and Texas rig it.
If you're fishing stuff that's matted up and sloppy, the Big EZ works a little bit better. When you're fishing more submerged stuff or reeds or pencil reeds, I find the swim jig works better.
Big EZ Bait Technique
Basically with the Big EZ, all you're gonna do is take that bait, launch it out there as far as you can. Hold your rod tip up and a steady stop-and-go retrieve. You want to kind of wake that bait just under the surface.
Speed it up, slow it down, change your retrieve a little bit. You don't just want to do the same thing all the time coming back in. That's basically how you fish a Big EZ. The rods you're going to use are 7'4 heavy action, 65 braid, 8 to 1 gear ratio reel.
Swim Jig Bait Technique
For the swim jig, this is called the Alabama Shake. It's one of the more effective ways to get them to bite. Same deal, you're going to bomb that bait out there.
But this one you're going to fish a little further down in the water column, so you're going to let it sink. And what you do is you reel just quick enough that you get a little bit of slack in your line and all you do is shake and pop that rod tip the whole time you're coming back. What that does is it gets that bait to hop and dance and it gets the skirt flaring in and out. Looks like an injured bait fish. Very effective way to catch these fish when they're buried up in the reeds.
Anyways guys, stay tuned for more tips!
