How to use a Hair Jig to catch monster Bass! Big bass love the Hair Jigs.
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- How to use a Hair Jig to catch monster Bass! Big bass love the Hair Jigs.
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In this video I go over all the ins and outs of the hair jig. I specifically talk about the finesse hair jigs that work great in clear water for smallmouth bass, but I also touch on a great technique to use on cold water largemouths.
Finesse hair jigs made out of marabou, bucktail and bear hair are some of the best ways to put big smallmouth bass in the boat year round. The marabou hair jig really shines during colder water temps but does work year round under certain conditions. The hair jig is a great bait to use around heavy fishing pressure, cold fronts or really anytime you feel that a subtle approach is the key. I use hair jigs a lot and after many years of trial and error I found some of the best ways to use the hair jig.
Fishing a marabou hair jig has been a long kept secret and until recently really hasn't been talked about much. Many big tournaments have been won on hair jigs and to this day still play a key role in many tournament wins. I would highly recommend picking up a few hair jigs and giving them a try on your next trip to a clear water fishery. It doesn't take long to learn how to throw a hair jig and the rewards can be some of the best catch fishing days you may ever experience!
I primarily use a marabou hair jig and a buck tail hair jig. Each has there time and place and I would suggest using both and experimenting with the retrieve and how you work the hair jig back to the boat.
I also talk about the marabou drop shot bait that is becoming one of my favorite techniques year round. The action of this bait is amazing and it will catch fish when nothing else seems to be working! I am currently working with a company that I will be announcing shortly to produce a high quality marabou drop shot bait with the correct hook size and action so as soon as these are available I will be putting up the link here in the description for you.
Give the hair jig a try this year and let me know what you think about them!
What king of success have you had on the hair jig? Leave any comments below! Look forward to hearing from you!
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Travis Manson was born and raised where the giant Smallmouth Bass of the north live...WISCONSIN. He started fishing from the bank as at a young age and spent most of his childhood with a rod in his hand. Travis is primarily a self-taught angler that is always learning and experiencing this amazing sport of fishing. He started out fishing for walleyes and fishing in local walleye tournaments, but then in his mid 20's, he caught the BASS BUG and has been hooked every since. He competed at the highest level in bass fishing on the Bassmaster Elite series for a number of years, until he ran out of $$ money $$. This led to a move across the country to the Northeast where he got things right again and is back on track, but now on his own terms. Perhaps he will make another run at the Elite Series if the opportunity allows. In the meantime, he is a fishing guide offering trips on the Chesapeake Bay for largemouth bass(year round), guided trips for smallmouth back in Wisconsin (during select times) and trophy smallmouth bass guided trips in Upstate New York (May-November) His RUclips Channel is named after his passion for the smallmouth bass and will be used as a platform for "how-to" videos, on the water instruction, crazy on and off the water topics and vlogs on the day in the life of a fishing addict! Hope you enjoy! 
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Great video. I have been using hair jigs for years for smallmouth in clear water. I have always kept it a secret!
I’ve been tying my buck tail jigs since the 80’s . I use brown and black / blue, I’ve added a little flash to them. Great action. Great Topic.
Thanks for tip. I haven’t tried A hair jig. Can’t wait to try it!
Best Hair Jig video! You're the man!
Amazing tips, thank you
I have been tying crappie jigs and bass jigs for a year now, and I can't wait to try these patterns.
I'm looking forward to making the drop shot rig next.
I just started tying on treble hooks
Interesting video. I never tried hair jigs for bass but I had a lot of success using them for river walleye
A couple years ago I started using Bass Streamer Flies on a drop shot rig. Excellent Video's! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Awesome video I’ve been fishing for years but never really used the hair jig. So thanks for the pointers
Really enjoy your videos. Lots of details that actually apply to my fishing, about to start using some hair jigs now lol
I listened to you and spoke with you on Saturday at the Suffern, NY show. I just wanted to say thanks for the information and for answering my questions. I just subscribed to the channel. This is a great video...can't wait to watch all previous videos and all of the new ones to come. I definitely look forward to doing some hair jigging at Lake George and Lake Wallenpaupack this spring.
Awesome video and Very informative ! I love to catch smallies.
Thank you for the information. Never tried the hair jigs but I will now
After being a bass Marshall 2021 Lake Champlain NY . The top ten had hair jigs on there deck .Fished with a
Johnston Brother Incredible trip of a life time for a river rat like me .Fished the upper Potomac yesterday 40 degree water temp . Caught a Nice fish can not what to get back out with this advice and what I learned in NY. Love your Channel .
Great naration.
Like the demo.
Good job!!!
Great vid, SMC. Thanks for sharing.
Great topic! Love using the finesse hair for smallies here in Arkansas.
Thanks for info, I have some but don't really use. Now, I will tie them on.
Great content! Thanks for sharing!
Travis, awesome video it was an eye opener. U mention that u would create how to video next time. I would like to see and learn how you hand tie a hair jig (marabou or synthetic hair) for large mouth bass. Thks
Chach
Great vid! I got my PB on a homemade Bucktail Jig. I also catch a ton of pike on it along with both types of bass and walleye! 1/4 3/8 and 1/8 all work well for me. So versatile and can be used in shallow water like creeks too.
This is great content. I'm so glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for watching!
I tie my own jigs as well. Did very well last week here in Massachusetts on my hair jigs. 1/4 ounce freestyle ball head with a rabbit zonker trailer and marabou body. Pond we 75% frozen. Slow twitch steady slow reel above the living grass. 5 largemout 5 pickerel in 1.5 hour trip.
Haven’t gotten a chance to get on some smallies to Test out my jigs. But the largemouth love them
Very informative video
Gonna tie some up try them out before freeze up , thanks I know it’s gonna work!!! Thanks
As always great info Travis! Definitely looking forward to fishing it on a dropshot
Good luck!
Woah that’s super light gear, I run on a 7”2 fenwick hmg medium fast, used to run 15lb braid on 12lb flouro, bc I was concerned about the musky in my area and the tons of snags in the river. I went down to 10lb braid and 8lb seaguar. 5lb braid seam like I would brake off on a hook set haha. But it sounds like a super fun set up!!
I use hair jigs for stripers. Like you said I'll put on a piece of Uncle Josh pork as a trailer and it's like the next best thing to live bait. The only thing is I like to move my bait a little faster, almost like a swim jig.
thanks for the info
Great video, Andy's custom bucktail all year long!
I love the shirt!!
It looks just like yours.
Now this was a great
video!
I tie my own hair for last couple years.Here in southern IL. And caught all kinds of fish I fish Shelbyville lake a lot. You have great video. Thanks 😊 .
My grandfather tied many maribou jigs, mostly black, I'm hoping to get back down to North East MD soon.
Travis. I just found your RUclips page. Great stuff. What rod would you recommend for the 1/16 hair jigs? Thanks.
Badass closeup demos. Badass selection on that table. Thanks man. Ps: that wall behind you is so cool that you don’t need those 3 prints. No match.
Ps: drop shot reco is top notch 👌🏻
ps2: look at the rigs used for snook In Nokomis, FL. I know the weight is excessive, but that flasher… I always thought of but never tried incorporating… let us know your thoughts ✌️
Love my black hair jigs and once in a while White works.
Travis live your channel. Awesome content. How slow do you have to reel that 1/8 ounce to keep near bottom. Also do you ever recommend using heavier for deeper fish?
I love the hair jigs, where can I get the black football jig with marabou hair for Largemouth ?
THANK YOU!. HAIR JIG DROP SHOT FOR MY WINTER BASS ON GRASSY BOTTOMS./ BRILLIENT
Great video!!
I tie bear hair jigs for smallmouth. If you get some northern black bear or a brown phase black bear hair with the long guard hairs and the long under fur you will never use marabou or bucktail again!!
Would love to try that!!
Late to the party... but going to try it this year on some shallow smallies
Good stuff buddy , very thorough. Gonna try this today!
Thank you!
SmallmouthCrush I did try it yesterday then, took my boat out on the Susquehanna River. Had a few black hair jigs that I never used, ended up with 4 smallmouth in about 2 hours, that’s about 4x better then I normally do lol, thanks again !
@@SmallmouthCrush I can't find hair dropshot
Those jigs would work well in saltwater too. I know bonefish love them. I just purchased some marabou to make bonefish jigs with them. I've used the dropshot technique with synthetic flies and that works good but I'm hoping the marabou will give it more action.
Drifting or “towing” the hair jig at .8 to 1.3 mph over reefs is a great way to find them. Good stuff here.
Great info. I tie my own jigs with marabou, bucktail, craft fur, arctic fox, etc. I also fly fish shallow for bass. Drop shot marabou sounds fun for deeper water. What size hook to use? 4,2,1, or what.
Fred Smith Idk, but I think a strait shank mustad size 2 dropshot hook and craft fur is all ya need
Travis, you forgot to add the mentioned links in the description below for the hair jig links you mentioned in this video.
Also, have you ever used these for bedding bass?
Nice
Ive been using shimano Intenza 7 6 light extra fast action. Does amazing for 1/8 oz hair guys
awesome
Mr. SMC, what ya think of the, St Croix Legend Tournament LBS86MLXF - Hair Jig & Drop Shot Rod?
Uncle Josh small pork frog- black! On a 1/16 oz marabou jig- black!
Fly fishing is where it's at, if you are throwing small lightly weighted or unweighted feather/hair type lures. you should try it if you enjoy hair jigs so much. Fly fishing allows you to have more control over how you move your hair jig and helps you feel every little bump. It's not hard to learn like most people think, It's actually pretty easy.
sound!
Doesn't have to be a spinning rod and reel you can easily cast these with a BFS baitcaster setup. I don't use spinning gear anymore it works so good 😀
Any update on the Drop Shot Hair availability? I would love to have a couple of these.
At this time the tackle store that I wa talking to about doing this hasn't really reached out to me to move forward on it. Your best bet at this time is find a small company that can hand tie some marabou jigs and ask them if they could tie some on a drop shot hook for you. Maybe send them the drop shot hooks you prefer and have them tie it on. If i hear anything different I will be posting to this video in the future. Thanks for watching!
Great video! Where can we get tungsten hair jigs for smallies? Thanks. Hope to see you at the New England Fishing Expedition!
Not sure about tungsten hair, that would be nice to try though
@@SmallmouthCrush No lead allowed in New Hampshire. I'll see you at the Expo!
Travis any update on the maribou drop shot?
No update on the Maribou Drop Shot....I spoke with a tackle shop who seemed interested in making these but they never got back to me on it. I just have some friends make them for m now. I will post if I find a place that ties them and sells them to the general public.
I get similar results with a black zman TRD aka yoga pants on 3/32 EWG gap jig.
How about the link to the drop shot jig you mention in your video?
We are still working on the Drop Shot Hair........I will post a link in this video as soon as it is ready! (should be this month)
cant seem to find these anywhere, are they available yet?
I believe dark finesse jigs resemble tadpoles.
I've never really thrown a hair jig but have always thought it should catch fish
And learn from my grandfather who used them all the time he was a pro at it I'm not a pro but I love to fish it
I will trying to make with my black hen's feathers
U make great vids . Love me some SMALLIES
Thanks for the compliment......Trying my best!
I have actually used my own hair but I prefer squirrel hair
Hair jiiiiiiiiiiiiiig!
I have been whack'n them on hair for years. The drop shot hair jig/fly is deadly. A little East Tennessee SECRET I have tied and fished for 5-6 years.....apply some Punisher fish dope or KVD Fish Stix to the drop shot fly during the winter like we do with the Float-N-Fly and watch what happens. I tie a 1oz. jig for summer that is 7-8 inches long that looks just like a live shad with the profile and it's $$. You and I need to talk hair.
Very deadly on lake Champlain - you can definitely have a great time with the small mouth.
Where can we get those drop shot hair jigs bromosexual?
Only one speaker is turned on
They think its catfish fry
If you was too frost your tips . You'd look like one of those converted to golf guys.
Great video