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Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 05:44 PM
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teambassmanager
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Curious to see how many people find "stroking" their jigs as being an effective form of jigging versus the dragging style or regular technique.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:12 PM
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Mike Keenan
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Curious to see how many people find "stroking" their jigs as being an effective form of jigging versus the dragging style or regular technique. I havent heard of this in years... Marty Stone had a good video of this
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:16 PM
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SoCal Tom
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I had some really good days doing this a few years back. Not sure why but I've gotten out of doing it. It's usually a pretty violent bite.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:16 PM
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fouzman
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I only use the technique when the fish are deep, suspended and keying on shad.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:19 PM
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senko9S
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it works, similar to a jigging spoon.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:24 PM
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teambassmanager
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So it's more based off the type of fishing your doing versus just "doing" the technique while trying to JIG.. I had seen someone doing this technique @ Fork from Arkansas and he was hooking up so much I had to indulge on the conversation but never pursued others opinions. He says this technique has landed more big fish in his lifetime than any other fishing rig or presentation.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 06:33 PM
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senko9S
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to me it's the classic example of a true reaction strike. you are making them bite it out of a reaction, not hunger. imagine a big fat jig landing deep on the bottom and making a silt cloud which in turns gets the attention of a big fat bass. she swim up to it and goes nose down starting to look at it. all of a sudden the jig gets stroked and leaps off the bottom causing the strike. the bass wasn't going to let it get away rather than preying on a crawdad crawling along the bottom.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 08:48 PM
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lamoon78
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I do it all the time for a reaction bite when they are wanting it like that they knock the mess out of it.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 09:25 PM
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PEDRO H.
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We do it when the "dragging" bite slows down to trigger a few more bites. It's paid off for us in the last few years. caught some of the bigger fish in the school doing it. but like someone said above we only do it in deep water.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 09:50 PM
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Ken A.
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Has worked really well for me at Fork in the summer. Big one ounce white jig with a white trailer.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/19/18 10:00 PM
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rscustomrods
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You can also stroke a big worm. It is a great technique at night on fork. As mentioned, they absolutely hammer it when they hit. Really fun bite
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/20/18 12:36 AM
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McLovin’
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Still works...I caught a few on Palestine last few weekends doing it. Buddy of mine had just finished saying, "I don't ever know why I try to throw jigs, I never catch them like you do...." then he almost lost an arm when a fish hit it, LOL....sometimes its unbearably slow, but I've been told I'm a "jig ho"....
Last edited by Mudbone; 02/20/18 12:37 AM.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/20/18 02:15 AM
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horseplaydvm
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I only use the technique when the fish are deep, suspended and keying on shad.
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Re: Stroking Jigs
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02/20/18 02:26 AM
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Jobie99
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It can be deadly summer time ledge fishing.
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