Jigging Spoons

Part 1: Why Use Jigging Spoons?

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By: "The Bass Coach" 
        Roger Lee Brown

Through out the past several years while fishing with co-anglers, charter clients, and some of my bass fishing school students, I have noticed that most of the fisherman and women don’t carry jigging spoons in their boxes, in fact when I ask them if they’ve ever used one they usually reply that they have never used one or they wouldn’t know the first thing about using them. Well, let me suggest to you that a jigging spoon is a very "Highly Productive" type of lure that you need to learn if you plan to do a variety of bass fishing.

There are many different brands of jigging spoons on the market today to choose from and most of them work as well as any others that you might select from all the different manufacturers but there is always an exception to the rule, right? While recently on a fishing business trip in California a fellow (a former bass fishing school student of mine whom I spent 3-days on the water with) introduced these jigging spoons to me, and let me tell you: "You won’t find any better than these!" They have such a unique design, ultra sharp hooks, and the different color combinations are great, anyway, when I got back home to Lake Champlain and Lake George, NY I headed straight for the water to give them a try. I caught a limit in the first two hours of using these jigging spoons with one of the bass weighing a solid 6 lbs. (a Smallmouth bass). And since then I always have one rigged up on one of my rods.....

Now, there are several different patterns you can apply when fishing a jigging spoon while fishing suspended fish, bottom fish, structure fish, and in and around vegetation just to name a few....

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