Swim Jigs, Northwoods Style
By Andrew Ragas
Bass fishing can become as technical and complicated as we make it. Often times, anglers become too fixated on unnecessary extras rather than focusing on the presentation and strategy at hand. Like some of our fishing strategies, jig fishing can become a complicated matter due to the wide variety of jig head styles, jig designs, skirt colors, and trailer combinations available. On top of that, the availability of jigs from every major tackle manufacturer complicates the system even more!
If you’ve fished swim jigs, you might have been overwhelmed by the options that are now available. With my jig fishing program, I hope to simplify the swim jig strategy for you.
In recent years, swim jigs have become staple presentations for catching largemouth and smallmouth bass. Whether your fishing intentions are to cover water with a search lure, or to extract bass from high percentage locations that may include shallow cover and vegetation, and rock & wood habitats, the swimming jig is universally effective everywhere. Whether its head design is cone shaped or rounded, it possesses bass catching abilities in a wide range of conditions and bass waters – any



















