Though a swim jig is a great tool for targeting all black bass species, it is typically associated most with fishing for largemouth around shallow vegetation. Yes, you can catch spotted, smallmouth, ...

Early summer is a great time of year to chase largemouth bass. Many fish are now recovered from the spawn and are feeding aggressively. And many are still roaming shallow to mid-depth waters and can ...

During the summer when the water heats up and bass slow down their activity a swim jig can be effective for fish feeding on bream or shad in shallow water. (Steve Knight/Tyler Morning Telegraph) Bass ...

If you're like most bass anglers, you've cast jigs, flipped jigs, pitched jigs, hopped jigs, crawled jigs and even jigged jigs, but the only time you ever swam a jig was when you sprinted it back to ...

, there’s a good chance you can do a 360 and touch 20 different bass fishing jigs, all designed for specific applications. The old-faithful designs have been around for decades, like flipping jigs and ...

During the early season before the spawn, crappie and panfish bites can be difficult to detect at times with traditional methods. They're much lighter than what you'll get during the spawn and in the ...

I have seen hundreds of techniques to catch bass come and go through the years. Once in a while, one comes along that catches my eye, and a lot of bass, too. One such technique is the swim jig. We all ...

As largemouths move off the shallow flats after the spawn, they hang around the edge of the drops, the transition zone from 4 feet and less down to about 10 feet, which happens to be the maximum depth ...

As reported by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), on August 4, 2024, William Kneer IV found himself fishing in Alaska on the wild Kisaralik River when a world record sockeye salmon ...