Do You Remember Your First Jig Fish??? 2024
bigbill reply :
I was always catching bass by fan casting this Rocky point by casting my crankbait lure across it. I pulled many bass from the calm side of the point opposite the channel side were the current is. I decided to hop a green pumpkin with a green pork trailer. On my 3rd or 4th hop a 2 1/2# bass took it. It was also using a low profile bait caster for the first time too. I hopped it straight up the point from the deep towards the shallows. I made an Oscar winning presentation. Every hop was exactly the same in moving the rod tip, lifting it an equal measurement. I raised the rod tip up and letting it fall. I lifted it about 6" off the bottom. I didn't know jig fishing was this simple "not", but it's skill with the presentation
that caught the first jig fish for me. It was a great feeling to get the first one under my belt. Inside I was doing a happy dance. Well close to that.
This was a time when I was trying different lures and learning the presentations. I
began realizing that all these lures do work it's just a matter when and where to
use them.
Do you remember your first jig fish?
Bluebasser86 reply :
1/2oz Strike King Premier Pro model jig with a Denny Brauer chunk on a Shimano Bullwhip pistol grip rod and some junkie Diawa with a flipping switch. I was casting to a riprap bank that had a lot of brush and crawling it over the limbs. Fish grabbed it and started swimming back towards the trees, probably 2.5lbs. I'd had lots of unsuccessful trips with a jig prior to that so it was a major victory for me. Much better equipment and thousands of jig fish later they're now my favorite bait to fish 
martintheduck reply :
Night fishing and we normally use shakey heads, but I heard a rumor of a guy catching a 10lb'er on a brown and black 1/2oz football jig. Of course, I went and bought 4 1/2oz brown/black football head jigs, used some brown chunk trailers, got snagged and lost 2 of the jigs throughout the night and the last light we came up to around midnight, I casted under the dock and hopped it a few times and hooked a little 1lber.
Most exciting 1lb'er I've ever caught!!! Hahaha.
slonezp reply :
No, but I remember the big ones
dreamertino reply :
My first jig fish was bed fishing. I could see the male plain as day sitting there I pitched four or 5 times no luck then I found the sweet spot. He grabbed it and took off right. So I reeled down and set the hook over my left shoulder man it was awesome
Bankbeater reply :
Eight years ago I had been using some homemade jigs off and on all year without success. I would start off with a jig, and then switch to another bait when I didn't get bites. Then one Friday in October we went out and the bass were hitting on both cranks and plastics. I decided to start throwing some jigs to see what would happen. I figured that the way they were biting I should be able to catch one on a jig with no problem. After going through several different jig colors and sizes with no luck, I finally tied on a black 3/16 jig w/ a black chunk. I tossed it next to a gravel bar and POW a LM about a pound grabbed it. After that I was hooked on jigs. When I got the bass in the boat, my Dad asked me if I caught that on the firetiger crank I was throwing that day.
Jolly Green reply :
Yup, he was all of 5". Snagged him trying to rip my 1/4 oz. Bitsy Bug free of some weeds.
Brian6428 reply :
Yep. The bite was hot so I decided to throw a jig, and i caught a 1.5 lber. Came back to the same lake the next day, chucked out a jig as far as i could (from shore) and immediately the fish in my avatar hit, which still is my pb!
Darren. reply :
It was a gorgeous 3 lb bass. I was frustrated by a couple, um, jerks who had no idea of courtesy and fished right by me in my kayak. Long story short, I threw my jig out into the water just to cast. Didn't aim for a spot, just threw it out there.
Bang! Hauled it in right in front of the guys. LOL.
Now this jig was one I found while fishing one day. Was snagged on a dock. I decided to try it but never had success on it until that day (to the best of my knowledge). Still don't ghosh jigs much. Still have that one, too..
Felix77 reply :
Absolutely ... I was fishing a pond in early spring. I had a few black/blue jigs with me but never used them On this day I was not catching a thing. I decided to try it out and ended up catching 3 on the jig.
I was stunned by the bite ... it was not subtle at all! I still don't have a ton of confidence in jigs but I am targeting that as my goal for 2014!
J Francho reply :
I've been using some type of jig since I was a kid, so no I can't recall. I will say that what I call a "jig" these days is far different, and much more versatile than the bucktails my dad and grampa made in the garage. We did catch with them though.
stratoliner92 reply :
Shortly after being married(early 90's) we moved to Florida for several years i took up bass fishing. Watched a tv show with someone jig fishing so i went out next weekend with a blue/black jig and uncle josh pork. Started pitching cypress trees and sure enough i hooked(shocked me-ha!!) the biggest bass i had ever seen at that time.
Not to long after that i learned how to T-rig and became hooked for life.
Drewski73 reply :
3/16 oz Bitsy Bug craw color. The ponds I fish grow really crazy scum in the spring. Well, I went one day and the scum was gone, water got too hot I think. I tied on that jig and was either the first or second cast. About a 2 lb bass. Ive bought a LOT of jigs since! lol
Siebert Outdoors reply :
A local creek here when I was about 14 or so wading.
daiwaguy reply :
My first Jig fish came on a 1/2 Chompers Brush Jig. I was fishing a Long stretch of Rip Rap in one of my first club tournaments when I was 17. I Had side hooked a couple of nice Carp and Buffalo's with a White Crankbait but Bass bite was slow. Ended up deciding to throw this Jig with little "jig" experience( besides what I had read in magazines) and on my 5th cast I felt a very subtle tap then noticed my line moving so I set the hook and felt the weight. I ended up getting 2nd in the tourney and Big Bass with that beautiful 5.15lb hog. I will never forget it, and I dont beleve my boater will either because I might have went a little Ike on his back deck.
ww2farmer reply :
No, but I have been catching bass on jigs since the late 80s.
rockchalk06 reply :
Unfortunately I don't. My dad started me so early on when I was 2-3 using a jig I can't remember it.
My first jig fish I can remember was on my 9th birthday. I was using a black/yellow 1/2oz football jig with a black pork trailer of some brand. Just at 4 pounds. That I'll never forget. One of the first times my dad said he was proud of me. I still have the rod.
bassin is addicting reply :
heck yes!! it was on last years' Roadtrip. with Needham. we were talking....well, let me correct that. he was talking....i was listening....another correction...i was acting like i was listening...lol..
he said he would be primarily fishing a jig. i told him i'd never caught one on a jig...he said..."you will today"... he was right...
and now i am addicted to the jig. and mike (siebert) was awesome enough to make some for me that night....in his truck, using the light of the cab and his wife's cell phone. i have since bought another 20 jigs from him and have one tied on at all times.
tholmes reply :
I don't specifically remember the fish, but chances are it was a crappie on a 1/16 oz white. marabou jig. I remember my first smallie on a jig very well. It's still my PB at 4lbs. 6oz. caught on a olive/brown bucktail jig that I tied myself.
Tom
martintheduck reply :
On 11/6/2013 at 4:10 PM, slonezp said:No, but I remember the big ones
Why you always gotta be such a downer, man? 
Catt reply :
Where: B. A. Steinhagen
When: Late January 1967
What: Stanley Jig, Bubble Claw Craw Worm, 38 oz, Black-N-Blue
Caught: 2 34# chunk
NEjitterbugger reply :
Mine was caught on a 3/8oz green pumpkin jig with a rage baby craw on it... 1.6lbs
I don't know if this counts but I caught my PB smallmouth on a 3/4oz football head with spider jig trailer... First smallie on a jig (if it counts)
jignfule reply :
On 11/6/2013 at 4:10 PM, slonezp said:No, but I remember the big ones
X2 & all the pb's on jig
Big-O reply :
At my age... I'm LUCKY to remember the last one But they're all GOOD!
Alpster reply :
Don't remeber the first, but it was probably wading under the highway bridge on the Tangipahoa river in Robert, LA. 1980 or so. I loves me some jigs!
Ronnie
Brian Needham reply :
I am always amazed at the people that don't fish a jig or don't understand it. Its not they don't understand, more never had the chance to really fish a jig cause of type of water, style of fishing, ect ect.
As Jon's story above, I was lucky enough to be in the boat when he caught his first of many jig fish. I remember him saying he never caught a jig fish, I remember thinking, might even said it "what the hell do you fish with then?" but I did promise him a jig fish, and I am glad he got it.
It's a memory I will never forget, as I knew once a man feels that jig bite he is ruined and never wants to throw anything but.
My first jig fish: at the golf course. I had just started fishing.....literally less than a month. I been catching good fish 3# +/- and a friend of mine told me to get a football jig... I had no clue. Off to Wal-Mart I go and get a few 3/8 booya black and blue football jigs and paca craws. back to the golf course and boom 4 pounder.
My First jig fish from a boat: after fishing for about 2 months I bought a boat, went to a local lake (Horseshoe) and casted out between 2 stick up in an open bay......I felt a tick and questioned it, reeled in slack but kept reeling in slack........its there I said! the fish was swimming toward me ! Set the hook into a nice 2 1/4#er...........thought I was Bill Dance.......... my boat, my spot, my first jig fish all on my own HOOKED FOR LIFE ON THE JIG.
I then called my friend that told me to buy the jig and fished with him(lives 2 hours from me), got my head kicked in but LEARNED AND LEARNED just from watching him work the jig.....adjusted to my own style and called myself a "jig guy"
best thing about fishing the jig is helping someone learn or introduce someone to the jig....jig produces nothing but SMILES!
travis23 reply :
I was in a small creek in some thick cover. I remember climbing this very steep drop off and holding onto branches to get my self to the spot. I was really really paying attention to my presentation when I felt a light bump, and bam, small creek bass, but a light bulb came on and I figured the jig out. I, like most, love this style of fishing now!!
WRB reply :
I do remember; it was in '55 at Big Bear lake on a black hair jig called a Doll fly, no trailer, under a boat dock.
My older brother worked at the boat landing, today called a marina. A box of Doll Flies came in a shipment of crappie jigs. I was curios about a big crappie jig and tried it around the dock, catching several bass. The jig was about a 3/8 oz size, black deer hair tied with red wrap and yellow painted eyes. I used Dool flies until discovering football head around '61 and started making my own hair jig with pork rind trailers and never stopped.
Tom
Montanaro reply :
Couple years ago actually...never used them really before then as I was young and didn't understand how to use them.
Well I was floating down the south branch of potomac when I got up to a long slow section with a large tree blown over in the middle. I cast past the tree a little ways and dragged the brown 3/8oz with craw trailer until I got beside the tree and felt resistance on the bottom (a limb? a rock?)....then I shook the rod tip back and forth to simulate a crawdad digging in...after a couple seconds of shakes...I felt tap tap tap
Pulled a 3.5 pound smallie off that tree. I practically had a woody.
pbizzle reply :
Yes, because it was only a few months ago. It was on a Strike King Bleeding Bait 1/4 Bitsy Bug in black/blue with a 3.25" black and blue Yum Crawbug. I won't ever forget it because it was also my first keeper fish in a tournament as well as my first fish on my first real baitcasting combo. I still own the jig. It's the bigger one I'm holding in my profile picture.
Reptile360 reply :
Nope, still trying to find him.
mnbassman23 reply :
I was 15 and caught it on a 1/2oz Stanley jig. Bought it at a local shop when my buddies and I did our yearly camping/fishing trip to my parents lake lot. They looked at me like I was nuts for buying this skirted thing. Last day of the trip we had a big fish tournament and the winner won some reading material that no one pays attention to read, if you get my drift. Last hour of the day I pulled out the jig and casted it to a 10ft cabbage bed on my underpowered spinning rod with 10lb mono. Felt solid weight, set the hook, and couldn't tell if I was stuck in the weeds or had a fish. Turned out to be a 20" largie that won me big fish and a magazine full of good pictures. Life was good.
KritterGitter reply :
Practicing skipping jigs at the local park a few weeks back hooked into a big ol snakehead... First and only jig fish so far. 
Matthew Veillion reply :
First jig fish was on a strike king Greg hackney jig in Texas craw with a rage tail watermelon red craw trailer. Been trying all day and my partner in the front missed a fish on a crank and I pitched by the same tree and soon as I let it touch bottom I hopped it once then he took off and I ripped the hookset and caught him. Only a 1 pounder but a big accomplishment that got me hooked.
Triton9918 reply :
I remember because yesterday I caught my first. It weighed 3lb 4 oz on a black and blue jig
Creekcrappie reply :
Nope but definitely with a topwater
The Rooster reply :
I was fishing a lake around here that is notorious for not producing fish. It's called Greenbo lake, in Greenup county, KY, but locals call it the Dead Sea. Oh, it has big bass in it, double digit sizes even, but the water is ultra clear so they're hard to catch. Add to this that it was cold. It was November of 2011, so I expected another skunking when we went. My Brother-in-law wanted to go out so we went and since I expected nothing from this lake, as usual, I decided this would be a good time to try learning some jigging techniques to pass the time.
I tied on a dirty Sanchez colored D&L Tackle 1/2 oz. football head jig with a green pumpkin Netbait baby paca craw trailer. I had been casting to the shoreline from the boat, same as him, but in a moment of frustration I just turned and casted out to open water just as far as I could and let that jig sink to the bottom in about 20' of water. I had no idea what to do with no prior jigging experience. I just knew I had bought a few jigs to try to learn them but never had tried them before. I just started slowly dragging it like I would a T-rigged worm.
The next thing I felt was sort of a prickly feeling through the rod, like you might feel if you were to press the teeth of a comb with your thumb and let them spring loose one at a time. This, I can only assume, was the brush guard on the jig doing something similar inside the bass's mouth. It felt different to me so I figured when in doubt set the hook. Well, now I'm in a fight with my first ever jig fish, and it's a keeper bass, on a cold November day on a lake notorious for skunk days! WHOOHOO is the only thing I can think at the moment! I landed the fish, released it, made another cast to open water as near to the same spot as I could, and had the same experience all over again. Two keeper bass, back to back, from the Dead Sea, on jigs! I'm hooked harder than those bass were at this point. They were only a pound each but to me they were huge since this lake sucks so bad otherwise, and catching them on a jig from these waters my first time using one just solidified how good a jig can be to me.
We fished for another couple of hours, and I felt that same prickly feeling again several more times as we moved from cove to cove, and managed to land one more keeper too, making my total for the day 3 keeper bass from totally unproductive waters otherwise. I'm so happy by now that I can't think, and I finally snapped off the jig from frayed line on a hard cast. Lost it deep in the woods, but I had another, and have since bought about 6 more of those same ones as well as many others in different sizes and colors.
Since then I have went back to that spot and found there is a stump about 20 feet down and just as far out that these fish must have been holding near to. There's nothing else around it at all that I can see. I'm fairly certain this is where I found those bass and just made a random lucky cast to open water that day and happened to put a jig near to that stump. I'm sure glad it worked that way because I did not have any confidence in that bait and might never have tried it long enough to gain any. Now I am absolutely never without a jig tied on always, and also have found that bass hit it the same way in waters I normally fish. I just feel for the prickly feeling and set the hook.
SirSnookalot reply :
Don't remember my first but I remember my last, was this morning. 30" snook on 1/2 oz hot lips bucktail jig.
CDobber reply :
Have yet to find much success with them yet, though I did break my 3 month long skunk on a 3 1/2" chartreuse/pepper tube nose pinned with a metal arrowhead jig, even if it was only an 11".
The more memorable one was 2 summers ago fishing for one of the first times on our new boat with my 9 year old son and Dad. My son had on a 1/2 oz gumball, absolutely no trailer, no skirt or anything in a lake that had completely drained in a breach just 3 summers prior, so the lake had only been recently restocked. He caught a decent sized crappie on that setup. Now that I have some semblance of what a jig is, and what it should be used for, it makes me laugh to think that he caught anything with it that day.
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