The BEST Finesse Trick For Cold Water Bass!! (Damiki Rig Fishing)
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The Damiki Rig is an amazing technique for cold water bass fishing! Its slow, methodical approach can get wary bass to bite when nothing else will fool them. Fished properly (slowly), it can get bass to bite in the coldest temperatures you'll face all Winter. If you haven't given it a try, its time!
The concept behind the Damiki rig is very simple. Suspend a small baitfish imitating plastic above the fish in cold water and give them time to inspect it. As long as you can keep it sitting perfectly level and moving slowly, they'll usually eat it. This method rely's on the same concept as the float n fly to fool bass into biting but does it in a more manageable and angler-friendly way.
Below you'll find links to the exact baits we use for this technique. We've included our favorite sizes and colors, as well as the gear we use to fish the technique. All the links go directly to Tackle Warehouse where you can see detailed photos and descriptions of each item.
THE DAMIKI RIG...
Head- Damiki Rig Head: bit.ly/2tg1ajm
Size: 1/4 oz , 1/0 Hook
Bait- Damiki 3" Armor Shad: bit.ly/2VQ7g6o
Color: RP Blue Pearl
DAMIKI RIG HEADS...
•Damiki Rig Head: bit.ly/2tg1ajm
•Dirty Jigs Guppy Head: bit.ly/2nyUJRS
•VMC Moon Eye Jig: bit.ly/3O87vCS
DAMIKI RIG BAITS...
•Damiki Armor Shad (Fork Tail): bit.ly/2VQ7g6o
Color: American Shad, Pro Purple, RP Blue Pearl
•Strike King Baby Z Too: bit.ly/3UzCkmf
Color: The Deal, Smoky Shad
•Zoom Super Fluke Jr: bit.ly/2aqys0H
Color: Smokin Shad, Albino
PADDLE TAIL BAITS...
•Damiki Armor Shad (Paddle Tail): bit.ly/2KtPDAT
Color: American Shad, Pro Purple, RP Blue Pearl
•Keitech 2.8 Fat Swing Impact: bit.ly/2ab7s8v
Color: Electric Shad, Pro Blue Red Pearl
•Keitech 3.5" Easy Shiner: bit.ly/2bxJK6H
Color: Electric Shad, Pro Blue Red Pearl
HIGH END SPINNING COMBO...
Rod- G Loomis NRX+ 822S DSR: bit.ly/2RB0oJP
Reel- Shimano Exsence A 3000: bit.ly/2iMtscV
Line- Sunline SX1 12 lb Braid: bit.ly/2tn8EzQ
Leader- Sunline Super FC 6 lb: bit.ly/2p7fxju
HIGH END CASTING COMBO...
Rod- Shimano Expride 6'10" Medium: bit.ly/32IrXqE
Reel- Shimano Aldebaran MGL (HG): bit.ly/2fdX1Uy
Line- Sunline Super FC 8 lb: bit.ly/2p7fxju
BUDGET SPINNING COMBO...
Rod- St. Croix Mojo Bass 6'8" Medium: bit.ly/3UFPcaO
Reel- Shimano Sedona FI 2500: bit.ly/2wgh50Z
Line- Sunline Super FC 6 lb: bit.ly/2p7fxju
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TacticalBassin Apparel and Lure Designs: bit.ly/38YpPIz
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MAJOR EQUIPMENT WE USE DAILY...
Trolling Motor- Minn Kota Ultrex 112: bit.ly/2vFQypW
Electronics- Humminbird Solix 15: bit.ly/35HuPRY
Anchors- Minn Kota Talons: bit.ly/2F0QBSP
Net- Frabill Conservation PLD 2612: bit.ly/3kdZ3kA
Camera- GoPro Hero 9: bit.ly/2KQ0VEI
FAVORITE TOOLS AND GEAR…
Favorite sunglasses: bit.ly/3cLH0kl
Favorite Pliers: bit.ly/3xJFwTu
Favorite life jacket: bit.ly/2odXXIP
Favorite Scale: bit.ly/2f7QgQ9
Favorite Lure Retriever: bit.ly/2TLTJc6
Favorite Braid Cutters: bit.ly/35KSp3O
Favorite Split Ring Pliers: bit.ly/2fT4Qw0
Favorite Storage Box: bit.ly/3kngvEG
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So basically this technique is crappie fishing. I did this 30 years ago for crappie. So rig a bass sized bait and crappie fish heck probably catch a lot of big crappie also.
No mention of bobbers , bobber stop. Hover shot. Locate fish determine depth set bobber stop cast and wait. I always pic up little bits of info from you guys love it
Lets goooo TB. Thank you for the consistent content.
Tim, fyi, I notice a ton of RUclipsrs apologizing for noise, there was nothing noticeable as far as your sound quality, and I understand your attention to detail, but you didn’t have any issues imo. It’s so interesting to fish with the “damiki rig” mainly because since I was a kid and throughout my decades of fishing, we always called it “ straight lining” and we would hit the ledges of Kentucky lake,or bluff walls on Dale Hollow and Cumberland lake, and straight line as we would drift from a perfect breeze, or very light use of the trolling motor.. and of course there wasn’t the electronics of today, but when we found the suspended bass it was like they were tuna 😂 of course there were far fewer fishermen and some years were lifetime memories. Excellent job breaking it down as always. Much respect ✊
You guys are awsome thank you for the teaching. Im a bass fisher i use your guys technics when i fish. Much love from Toledo,Ohio.
KILLED IT!!!
Still can’t believe the lake levels are so low this year….crazy!
lower levels actually do improve the fishing, for the near term
If you want to make it even better when vertical jigging then use a Berkley snap jig to get more side to side movement and roll.
Practicing for a tournament tomorrow on Chick, fingers crossed. I am going to try it, have everything I need to try it. Thanks
I’m gonna have to try this! I already use Damikis underspin and the bass around here eat it up like candy!
I'm wondering if they can smell the super glue on the bait, all these scents available to mask smells but yet allot of people using super glue on the heads of the baits.
And wd-40 on moving baits
People have been gluing baits on for years without issues
I wonder about this too. Im thinking once it cures all the way it shouldnt emit any scent but hard to know for sure. Couldnt hurt to add some shad scent after gluing to mask it. Bigger fish are fickle as hell.
I’m guessing with it being a reaction bite,there is minimum time to smell the glue.They just want to eat it.
I mean plastic itself has a scent so I think it’ll be fine
I highly recommend Jackall's latest Rhythm Wag for this technique. With the 2 fine strands that make-up the tail, it is absolutely perfect 👌
Completely agree!!!!
I have been waiting on cold weather excited to get out there and catch some southern GIANTS . Great video keep the content coming always enjoy watching .
Thanks!
Never seen anyone use a bait caster with a damiki rig lol, and zman jerkshad is your best friend with a damiki rig glue it on and you can get it back down instantly after catching one and use it all day long
Love the red eye jig with an under spin from Z-man at the spillway in cold water
I've had luck throwing this on the Curado BFS too with 7 lb. FC. Nice blend of finesse with a bit of power.
7lb is best for this!!! 👍🏼
Love the Matt Stefan Dirty Jigs Guppy Head!! How about giving Matt a shout out!! Love you guys and Matt, too!!
Will y'all please do a pond bank fishing video for us that don't have a boat!!!! For this winter!
Where you at, Chris ? Seems like South if you are fishing this winter. I spent many years fishing banks, wading rivers for Bass here in the Midwest and Id say the #1 thing for fishing banks is : Be Stealthy. Hunt. Once you disturb the spot in front of you , its over .
Without knowing your situation, Id encourage you to try and snag a 14' aluminum boat for under 1000$. I def dont have a lot of money, but 500$ for a 15HP on a 14' Alumacraft (1958 ) and a bit of work, changed my life.
@@jackolson8775 I'm in NC
I dont see this working in my home lake. Less than a foot visibility and average depth of 1-3 ft. Got anything else for me to try?
drop shot is good shallow
A plow
Thanks Tim. Good stuff as always!! Catch you soon.
Another good video thanks I giving up my stubborn ways and going your all's way
Oh daaaam. I just put my order at TW yesterday from Matt’s vid. 😢😢 i really need this damiki set up.
13:30 I think a drop of crazy glue on the knot would help keep the line more vertical on the eye, at least for awhile.
Really like the 6th sense finesse head for this technique
Good Stuff Mr. Sir this will work nicely for My home Skillet here at New Melones Resv,,, in California 😎👊
Great stuff as always, but I’ll be honest, I’m just counting down the days until the buyers guides. I’ve seen years of them, and there’s always overlap, but still the best part of the year for sure.
Thanks for all your tips
Man, in the winter all I have to do with that rig is do my best to hold it still, being a bit chilly will work the action! If it's warmer, drink some coffee or a Red Bull and your in action...lol!
Haha good one!😂🤣
Another great video Tim!
WARM WHERE TIM?! IM IN NEW ENGLAND! THE WARM IS LONG GONE!! LOL
Thanks Tim
I love your channel
So this isn’t a pond or bank fishing technique if you have to use sonar and hit them on the nose with this. Also isn’t it true that you can catch them with any lure if you hit em in the face with it?
True, not a bank fishing technique. False, you can literally hit bass in the face sometimes and still will NOT bite.
Watched Bryan Thift tear them up with this setup during a tournament. It definitely works and it's inexpensive.
BTW, I believe Bill Dance shows the method I use on non feeding bass. Anyways Bill explains the catching method that’s overlooked by many men or women.
It’s unseasonably cold in Texas right now. Has been for a week now and no end in sight. The entire 10 day forecast has highs in the 40s and 50s and lows in the 20s and 30s. It sucks.
Best time for this technique . Deep smallies
Again, very few smallmouths in Texas.
@@shadygraves spots too will bite that in deep water. Don’t know if you got them
So the hover rig is a jighead-less damiki rig?
We call that deadsticking here in NC.
Have you transferred these ideas to bfs yet???
Question: reeling down over top of fish or below and coming back above letting the lure sit above. Why get a 12 inch slide high vis slip cork with stoppers stay back cast over, floating the bait in or above the bass? Hope it Make sense . Works on non active feeding fish.
Does the guppy head stay neutral in the water column? I want to try this technique but don’t know if the guppy head will be horizontal in the water column
What if instead of a fluke jr i went the other way to the magnum fluke for stripers. Good idea or bad idea
Bet that was a skipjack that flashed on your bait! Seen them eat crappie minnows out on Chick
I'll have to try a small hog farmer spunk shad for this.
So? we want a firm knot at the top to hold position? Not a loop knot?
It almost feels like it’s end of summer here in the south
Damiki Rig is new to me. Interesting possibilities. When you cast the rig how do you fish it...isn't that not like a slow retrieve with a little swimbait?
Kind of. More of a vertical jigging presentation.
@@shadygraves Ok, thanks. Hard to visualize for me...when casted out, will the rig not swing back to the boat? I guess the jigging action comes from working the bait with the rod tip.
Savage Gear DS Minnow on a guppy head…… 🔥 try it.
I’m going to give this a shot, I just don’t think the bass in my area (south Mississippi and Louisiana) use the deep water in rivers and subdivision canals around me. I hope I’m wrong!
I think Gus Gustafson won a tournament down there somewhere doing this technique catching small mouth.
Ain't no smallmouths in Louisiana
@@shadygraves I wish there was! I think he was talking about Pickwicke lake, the bottom part of Pickwick is in northern Mississippi
Could you use it on a float and fly?
You would think that rigging it on a bobber would be a good technique for maintaining a depth, but a "float and fly" technique uses a lighter feather jig, and is supposed to mimic a shad slowly falling as it dies off from cold. Wouldn't hurt to give it a try though.
Did Tim sell the champion?
Great info as always, Tim. I have heard several references to "watching your bait" on your electronics. Used to do it on ice with Vexilars. I have Helix 8 MDI on my bow, and try as I may, I can't see a bait go down on the screen. Is there one setting I'm missing? Is 2D better? 3D? Thanks.
LiveScope
If you turn the gain up on your 2D it will pick up smaller things, although the higher it is the more “noise” there is on your screen
@@ssoutdoors9828 Thank you for the helpful response. 👍
Tim...If you don't have Livescope, would you use a flasher and act like your ice fishing em?
Absolutely! That's how we used to do it with Sassy Shads, Silver Buddies, Li'l Georges, and Crippled Herrings.
@@shadygraves Right on, thanks. I have used a Vexlar alot as I grew up in Indiana, so we ice fished alot. I've never really used the flasher on my Garmin 93's. I can see how it would be really effective with this technique though. I'll be fishing Bull Shoals in Arkansas for the next few months, it's a super deep (260+ ft) super clear highland reservoir, so this should work well there on suspending fish. Maybe even some walleye for a mixed bag (and a good dinner 😉)!
AKA Tight-Lining
Can you do this from the bank of a pond at all?
I'm going to try this from the bank of one of the local ponds here.
yeah with a bobber
There's seldom much need for lead of any kind in a pond. You CAN, but you probably SHOULDN'T. A weightless Fluke, Senko, or Magnum Finesse Worm will usually catch most all bass in ponds without the need for lead. These 3 lures cast as well as most weighted TX rigs, and the slow, natural fall is usually your best presentation in a pond. On the rare occasion you need more weight, a ¹/¹⁶ or ¹/⁸oz Slider, Spot Remover, or Shakey head is all you need.
Wouldn’t a loop knot give that bait a more life like look?
It’ll make it move around too much. You want horizontal presentation
Thank you. Question for anyone who can assist. What does this head have over my Matt Allen swim head with a small Keitech? I fish from a kayak. Thank you again for any consideration.
It's more of a vertical jigging presentation.
@@shadygraves , thank you. I missed that part!
What size hook wrks best???
Hook or jighead? Hook size depends on jighead size and lure size. Jighead size depends on lure size and desired depth/speed. Also, jighead size is determined by minnow (or shad) lure size. GENERALLY SPEAKING, ⅛, ³/¹⁶, or ¼ is best. ³/¹⁶ is a good place to start.
I wonder if this technique would work through the ice lol
yeah, probably. i use this same rig, just extremely downsized when im fishing the dead winter. ice never gets thick enough to try and ice fish here in indiana anymore but once the water gets into the low 30's, all i do is use a micro "damiki rig" for finicky fish. 1/32 or 1/64 oz ball head jig with a 1 inch mr. crappie lightening shad on an ultralight bfs settup with 2 lb line. the 1/64th head falls extremely slow, and big bass and big crappie just eat it when its cold; its ridiculously fun.
@@tagg946 I'll definitely be trying it
Hold those packages still. We can't see them if you keep waving them around.
Not so sure I would be giving Damiki so much credit for this when it's been around (Moping) in the walleye world.
It's not giving credit... in tournament bass fishing this is literally called "The Damiki Rig". We're just explaining what that is and how it's done.
If it had that much credit there, they should have named it first. Give credit where its due.
@@tacticalbassin you literally said "Congratulations Dimiki on having an entire technique named after your stuff". That's giving them some serious credit for something they didn't invent. I've tried "Moping" after the InFisherman had a show on it years ago and never had much success. Maybe I should try it again and call it Dimiki since I am bass fishing lol. Regardless, nice vid.
@@damikiUSA who should have named it first? It was called Moping.
@@gregc7314 We used moping for deep small mouth too. Al Linder did a tv show about 40 years ago on it, if I remember correctly
I thought my monitor started shacking 🤣
the damiki rig is only good on boat or on dock fishing only from my experience, but on shore fishing is not that efficient at all
Agree. I did catch bass from bank but I had to pretty much dead stick it and drag it back in.
Pls upgrade the camera
So why not a simple drop shot.
Add some garlic scent and bass inhale it.
AKA Biwa rigs
Don't forget, if ya see some schooling fish blowing up on baitfish, those BIGS will be underneath, waiting for those big dumb baitfish to hit bottom. Gulp.
You keep talking about 'straight' and 'natural' but your lure is hanging diagonally. One way to fix this is tie a palomar knot of 20lb fluoro on your jighead and snip it off, leaving the knot only. Position this knot toward the top or 12 o'clock position on your jighead eye. This will prevent your knot and line from sliding forward and making your presentation crooked. The more you know...
Dirty jigs guppy head 1/0 or 3/0
Oh yeah I’m voting for President Donald Trump
So basically you’re SOL if you don’t have a boat.
Do you have to use live scope? Or can you do this without electroncs
“Gonna have to use your electronics” so it’s not really the rig then is it? If I’m just scoping the fish out and dropping a bait on it’s head, sounds like I could use almost anything given the water temp. Seems like a pretty generic rig.
No! This is a very specific rig for a specific situation. It is for deep, concentrated schools of fish that are feeding on baitfish, more specifically, shad.
@@shadygraves did you even read what I said you joker?