Westernbass Magazine - FREE Bass Fishing Tips And Techniques - Winter 2015, Page 50

Westernbass Magazine - FREE Bass Fishing Tips And Techniques - Winter 2015, Page 50

Living Rubber ad August 1979

water and today it is still the preferred jig to fish 25 to 75-ft deep.

A TON OF

CONTACT

The components and

The original

the original Bobby

One Ton jig was

Garland Spider Jig

introduced to everybody by John Murray and Ted Miller. This was the true one ounce football head jig and none of us had ever thrown jigs that big. There was a couple of 5/8 oz jigs out there, but they weren’t that popular, but these Arizona guys really got into fishing steep, vertical bluff walls and fishing deep. They showed us crawling and hopping then deep jig and that the deeper you went, the heavier jig gave you more contact.

50

A DYING BREED

That is really

how that heavy jig

came about. They

were poured with at

light-wire 4/0 and

5/0 hook. That is

right where we are

today with hooks.

It is what allowed

the anglers to fish

deep, to get out of

their comfort zones

and move offshore,

yet stay in contact

with the bottom.

It became so you

could still feel that jig

in 60 ft in 70 ft. It changed the

way we could fish, opening up

deep water fishing to anglers

that had never done it before.

There are still a few guys

around that are exceptional

deep water fishermen. John

Murray, Mike Reynolds, Mike

Folkestad and Andy Cuccia all

come to mind. For me, it is one

of my strengths, but it is a dying

deal, just not a lot of guys do it. If

you ask western fishermen what

the weakest part of their game is,

a lot of them would say jig fishing, a

lot of them would say fishing deep

and a lot of them don’t even have

a clue what deep is. There are just a

whole lot of guys that haven’t ever

expanded into fishing down into that

75 or 80 ft range.

That is why I always say, most

fishermen can count the number

of fish they’ve caught deeper than 30 ft on one hand and most will tell you that they have never caught one deeper than 50. That what separates the good, deep water jig fishermen.

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