tiMe For JiG-N-PiG
jig-n-pig
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by andy cuccIa
it’s time!
I
t’s a cold, foggy morning here on the California
delta in January. Water temps have bottomed
out at 47 degrees. My client and i, who has
actually become my team partner for the day after convincing me to enter a local team event
ago when we were discussing our plans for today? Unfortunately, in our haste to leave my dock and hurry to the host marina, i forgot mine and have none in the boat.” absolutely Cooch, you told me to and i indeed have a jar of Uncle Josh pork. Handing me his
here, are methodically cruising down a rock levee
jar of pork, i quickly removed my Yamamoto single
bank pitchin & flippin a brown jig-n-grub to the bank tailed grub and replaced it with the pork chunk. to my
and swimming it through the “trough” and into the
amazement, on my very first pitch to the bank, right
grass. it’s been almost a month since i’ve been out
next to a big tree stump, i get hammered by a huge
prior to the holidays of december and we’re chasing
bass, one that is no doubt over 10 pounds.
a bite that was present in this dead end slough back
once safely in the boat and dumped
then. it’s 11:45am and we have yet to have a single
into the livewell, i jump back up front
bite. “How can this be,” i think to myself, “this area
and say, “let’s go, we got work to
was loaded with good fish last month? i know they
do, no time to celebrate, we need
are here, we’re fishing for them wrong.”
5 fish. By the way, don’t wait for
It was at that point it hit me, “dude, it’s time for
me to catch another one, put that
pork, i don’t think they are looking for little fishes
pork chunk on
to eat anymore!” Hey dan, did you bring that
your jig too,
bottle of pork chunks like i told you two nights
right now!”
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