Bass Fishing - How to Fish the Damiki Rig - Tightline
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- We take the Damiki Rig Bass Fishing today and explain all the details we know about this old rig that was brought back to life.
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Sure miss that boy. Always happy to see a Ryan episode. Don't stop helping these kids FlukeMaster! Prayer going up to Ryan. Over
Ok I am a big big fan but my 2 home lakes are Cherokee and South Holston. This is less a "rig" and more a technique. It originated on South Holston and it's a vertical presentation that we don't fish on the bottom. Some of the retrieves you're talking about sound more like tight-lining (another technique originated in Northeast TN) and not a Damiki "rig". We don't fish it on the bottom.
BassGeek yep. I'm from East Tn as well, and as soon as he started I said "he's tightlining, not Damiki rig fishing". no offense to Gene, but I really think this is an attempt to get views, based on the fact that after the elite cherokee event, everybody is searching Damiki Rig fishing on the web.
Hate to say it but I agree and he's better than that.
BassGeek i agree this is tightlining, not Damiking. Damiking is a vertical presentation over the bass not on the bottom and using a damiki armor shad.
and tightlining, is using light line, small jig head and a gulp minnow. keeping the bait on the bottom, drgging or jigging the bait.
yep bass geek i think you are correct!!!
I've been doing this for awhile now. I was just trying to match the hatch. Thanks for telling us how to fish it! I appreciate it.
I love this rig for pressured bass & slab crappie. I'm looking forward to using it video-game style for hybrid walleye this year too. The best thing about it is that you can change the profile without retying because you can use a fluke, a boot-tail, or even a curly-tail grub on the same jig. I go fluke for clear water, curly-tail for stained, and boot-tail for muddy water.
The damiki rig is usually referring to the vertical "video game fishing" technique used in east tn not the technique you are using I guess it's the same rig but not the technique used to win the elite series event on Cherokee Lake
drpcubing weren't they fishing it off the bottom for suspended fish?
Yeah 10 of the top twelve were using it.
I feel like it was almost clickbait to do this video right after that tournament because although the rig is similar the technique isn't even close to the same
Hopefully your comment doesn't get deleted for pointing this out lol
You're completely right buddy. As soon as I seen them fishing it I thought the same thing. I mean they've got the right idea with the baits I guess but they're not fishing it how you fish a damiki on Holston or Cherokee.
I've used that technique for since I was a kid. Never heard it called that. Learn something new every day. We mostly use it for white bass early in the spawn when they are not super active.
i like your videos u have virtually taught me to fish my dad never had time due to work. thanks Dale the oldman
I've been fishing that style rig since I was a kid. It is the number one rig on one of the smaller lakes I fish.
Great video! Thanks for the helpful information! I will definitely be trying this rig soon.
In Florida we have been using this same rig to catch redfish and sea trout for a long time. Never thought to use it for bass because down here there's so much cover in most of the freshwater that I don't use many exposed hook rigs.
Hi Gene! My only reel is a baitcaster. Do you think it would be as effective as a spinner reel? Also, how is this bait while fishing on a bank? Thanks & keep fishin'!
I can't say I have ever heard of the Damiki Rig. I can't wait to try it
Fluke is bringing the redfish techniques to freshwater
I'm headed to areal pressured spot in the morning, going to give this a try. Think with the weather changing, spawn is sort of confused ,they seem scattered. I can catch the lil males all day but momma ain't happy. Think this rig will work.
AWESOME!! You guys are the best.....thanks for the ejumacations!! LOL....it looks like a great technique definitely putting that one to use...thanks.
never get old seeing your one intro fish..
Thanks for sharing another great technique! I will definitely be adding this to my arsenal!
Learned so much watching these videos. Hope to fish with you sometime. Trying to stay warm up here in New York, getting antsy to get out on the water. Keep it up!
thank you guys that Help me out I was fishing wrong
Bought some zoom plastics and minnow jigs with the 90 degree ring on the way home from work today. I'm going to give this the cold water try in north Alabama.
Thanks for the instruction and for sharing your knowledge!
I'm sorry you lost your bud :(
Thanks man.
Gene, whats the major reason you use a mono or flouro leader tied to braid? Why not just straight braid??
I live in SW Ohio. Would this be fishable in high 30's? If not what would be the best in an old gravel pond that is pressured? The pond I fish is muddy in the middle with a muddy/gravel shoreline. During the warmer months I've fished a small version of this with a 1/16th with 2" paddle tail grub. Thanks!
Hey Gene i just got a 7'3 heavy action pole and I was wondering what reel and gear ratio to use with it, any particular brand you would recommend? thanks for the videos
we are right around the corner to pre spawn where I live. What baits and colors. pros and cons. suggestions. ANYTHING. ANYBOBY
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Gene
Do you recommend using a paddle tail soft plastic with this or just a fish tail. The paddle tail will cause a little more disturbance in the soft bottom ponds I fish at
He said in the video "no paddle tail cause it departs too much action/vibration".
Will you be doing any videos on fishing in the rain and how bass react to it and what to do to get them to bite?
Seems like just yesterday I was watching the video you guys made about bank fishing.
Sorry to be off topic,but where did you get the small wacky tool from another video.
So is this comparable to the old Charlie's Slider rig as far as fishing it goes?
so I have been trying to remember where I saw the Zman style jig head but with the 90° bend. Northland makes a slurp jig thats like that. have your tried it? I have a few and I don't know how they compare as far as thickness on the hook.
Gene,
It seems like every few seasons the name get changed on this technique but it sure does put pressured fish in the Yak
Good info! I'll have to try this in central Il hopefully Friday.
any tips on jigging for Bass in clarks hill lake. I mostly kayak fish there. my jackson is equipped with a lowrance that I'm still learning how to use. thanks.
Love your videos man
Best intro on UA-cam
My question is- i use 20-30lb power pro on both my spinning reel and my A3 baitcaster...i never use mono or floro..i tie straight braid to everything i use from worms to spinnerbaits and cranks...is that a bad thing to never use a mono or floro leader on anything lure i fish with?
hey gene can you do a video on how to rig different types or swim baits?
I live on Sinclair and I'll definitely be trying this rig!
The Elite guys were fishing this rig differently than Gene is. They were fishing it in 50 degree water and they were using a vertical presentation. They weren't swimming it at all. They were dropping it down on schools and just dead sticking it at whatever depth the school was at. Mainly in 20-40ft of water. They were imitating a small baitfish that was stunned by the cold water and made it look like an easy meal to the smallmouth. Obv it can be fished in a bunch of different ways but that's just what the Elite guys were doing last weekend.
That is the real "damiki rig" east tennessee fishing, this video is not
Been doing this for 20 years up here in Pa?
Mark P same here in NJ....I didn't know it had a special name lol
What are some good brands and colors of jig trailers to use??
This isn't the same rig we use in East Tn. Basically the same presentation, but the technique is totally different than the way you are fishing it.
How many times per video does the Flukemaster drop an air biscuit?
We use something similar for flounder in the summer.
Thanks Gene, regardless of what this is called, i'll be trying this today!!
Gene good vid what size reel are you using , saw your live feed with Chad and Ike loved it !
Fluke come to Ontario this summer!
I'd love to see some vids from Oconee/Sinclair. Sinclair is my home lake! Gonna have to try this rig out sometime.
aka Tight Lineing and I was just about to do a video on this lol good job fluke
Where do you learn all these new techniques? Just from other friends or do you research the stuff, between you and scott martin i have learned a lot of stuff i never even thought about and the last 2 years my catch ratio has easily doubled if not tripled and the size of my catches has gone up drastically too.
Time on the water, research, reading magazines, watching footage of tournaments, and anywhere else I can find information. I try to use it all to put together the most informative videos that I can.
i appreciate it gene. im sure ill have more questions at some point. My first year fishing flw so ill be trying to learn a lot in a short amount of time.
Bass had a video on this bait as well. I used a shadz on small jig head and is very similar. According to bass the big realistic eyes gets more bites, not sure about all that..
This is a jig and minnow. Has a fancy name. It has been used in walleye fishing all over Canada for a 100 years. Nothing fancy need to start thinking of fancy names for techniques used for other species. This is like the raider being turned into the whopper plopper.
I been doing this for 20 years, didn't know it had a special name...
GOD LOVES GUY same lol...
GOD LOVES GUY I thought it was a basic fishing rig. Jig head with a soft plastic. Use it to catch everything. Maybe it's new for some people who don't fish jigs.
I was thinking the same
What knot do you use for your braid to flouro?
what size kreed reel would you recommend for finesse?
What's a good fish finder, budget friendly to land nice fish.
Nice video Gene! What spinning reel were you using?
was that the creed GT you were using?
Can't find the VMC Moon Eye weedless jighead, I need a weedless jighead that keeps my bait level or straight.
Early spring?
Definitely NOT New, just a little different!
We multi-species folks have been using the VMC Moon Eyed Jigs with paddle tails and many other plastics for many years to take Pike, Walleye, Bass, Crappie, and anything else that swims in Fresh and Salt water. Ya'll just need to go on a fishing holiday around the country and SEE first hand the amazing and PRODUCTIVE combinations smart people have developed - ask KVD - he loves to travel.....and LEARN!
You've helped me so much thank you
The damiki rig is a verticle presentation in cold water from East Tn. This is not the damiki rig presentation
THANK YOU Gene!
Hey gene im switching all my gear to braid and what is a recommendation for a knot to tie braid to floro?
Greg Varela he will tell you the FG knot, he has a video on it, it's hard to tie but good! I usually just tie a uni to uni knot (double uni) cuz it's easy and strong
Greg Varela Alberto knot or aussie quickie look them up
fg knot. best for sure. check out salt strong's video on it.
Thanks y'all!!! Very much appropriated
Greg Varela do the aussie quickie it's a lot faster I just watched a video on fg and that would take forever I've never broke aussie quickie and it takes like a minute to tie
bassmater elite winning bait
This would be a great tactic for Saugeye!!
Many times on the Tennessee river, they will bite this vertical presentation much better than a drop shot in the cold months when the smallmouth go deep. Use your electronics and go get em.
Oconee and Sinclair??? I fish those lakes A LOT as well...hmm...good info!!!
Niceeeeeeeee. I never try much other than texas rings.
what's the benefits of this compared to other finnese techniques?
ok, like a grub rig. same thing I do as my goto every day style. we just call it a jig.
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The way you guys are fishing that is more like the tightlining technique, not so much the damiki rig. I fish the damiki, like others are saying, in a vertical presentation in 20+ feet of water. Tightlining is more along the line of what you guys are doing, casting at about a 45 degree angle towards the bank, and just popping the rod and reeling, just barely letting your bait get on the bottom, more like reaction bite. Just trying to clarify for you guys.
Do you have to use a spinning rod ?
Tyler Walker Fishing you never have to use a spinning reel with anything it just helps since it's a small bait
Collin H ok great thanks
So it's similar to what a drop shot rig does minus a jig head. Drop shot rig that keeps the hook close to the bottom would probably be more effective.
It's just a ned rig with a shad instead of a senko
A jig head with a small bait on the back? You could fish a ned rig with the trd shad and catch the same fish imo
Bryan S I think you can use a shad colored 3 inch senko
Luke Garrett my point exactly.
And a ned rig is basically a jigworm
The kid has really got to do something about his stopped up nose. Lot's of great information and he seems to have a wealth of knowledge but so tough to follow with that nasaly sound...
Comment section is all pissy about this video. RELAX brotha , it’s fishing! ✌🏻🎣
Hey flukeMaster make a video on how to fish a wacky rig
why dont u fish shimano reels?
AiraCord USA but he said there are other reasons
lmao well that was very entertaining y'all should be more serious lol great video gonna be trying that this weekend on a very pressured local lake
This isnt the way we're fishing it here in East Tennesee. Our lakes are clear and deep and we're counting that fella down to 40' and watching our graph.
Awesome videos bro...but btr when ur by yourself
I'm so glad you left that fart in lol
I've used this without even knowing it had some special name
Hey fluke ... go swing by and see my buddy Jon's farm in Georgia. Comfort Farms . Stop in and say hi.
I wouldn't say he actually expose this rig to the public. This really has been around forever and everybody was fishing it in that tournament anyways. And if he just happened to win.I will say I don't really recall seeing A lot of people throw it shallow like you are. Normally up here we fish using our graphs playing the videogame on the screen with her bed in the fish like we do with blades and drop shots. That's the way it's normally finished anyways. But I can see using it this way almost like a Ned rig would be only with a fluke tied on and a different type of jig head. But it's basically the same thing as fishing in the Greg if you're fishing at shallow like that. I don't think it would matter as much what type of jig head you're using if you're not dropping it under your transducer: fishing deep water
It's a swim jig, with a fancy name.
I don't think this is a "Damiki Rig". According to David Mullins the bait never touches the bottom and you don't move it.
+Doomsday Tackle Co This was only one of the two different ways you can catch fish with the Damiki Rig. The lake we were on was only 12 feet deep making it impossible to teach the vertical method.
Flukemaster understood. Thanks for clarifying.
looks like a crappie jig head with any soft plastic , I've caught many bass with a plain old crappie jig and bobby garland soft plastic pitching to the rocks for crappie. If they are hungry, they are going to eat it.
*Beer can cause liquid farts; you might have to check yourself"-Sportsjock Ferrell*
So basically a Ned rig fished like a reaction bait
Exactly
Luke Garrett my thoughts exactly
ppl are coming up with names for rigs that don't even need names. it's a simple jig head with a fluke fished exactly like a ned rig.
Eh I don't agree. A ned rig is a stick bait
Whereas the dimiki rig is used with a bait like the dimiki armor shad (the reason for this rigs name) or a zoom fluke/soft plastic jerkbait, usually shortened up.
okay... fart humor. yep 37 years and still hilarious!
9 years old been using a baitcaster since he was seven
This is the ost common rig in Sweden when fishing for perch
RIP Ryan
Well that's not the damiki technique. Damiki is a vertical.
you are tight lining not damiki fishing
Most of the other big fishing youtubers passed u in subs but now they are all vloging, if u continue to do simple how to videos than u will catch up cuz they just arnt doin it anymore
Thanks Chad. Honestly I don't care if I ever grow as fast as them. I am doing exactly what I love to do. Teaching people how to fish is more important than producing sensational clickbait videos.
I don't get it??? Go and search let's say some of Joe Bucher's old shows fishing for Smallies. You tell me way back when he was using basically the same set-up, fishing it the same way, same depth's, fluke split-tail, curly tail, beaver tail, paddle tail or whatever with let's say Kalin's Plastic's, it was called a Damiki RIg? Only thing in using this Damiki Rig set-up that Joe might not of had years ago was the different kinds of lines Angler's now have available. I would think Doug Stange from the In-Fisherman would argue this Rig name/calling a bust. Doug on Public Television show's rigging his paddle tails so the hook goes thru the side of the paddle tail instead of top side or bottom side on his Swim Jigs, but he doesn't call it or name it "The Doug Rig"!!! I would have to say like a general Bucktail/In-line Spinner for Fishing, someone just has to think they have the newest and greatest version of that style bait, but have to give the already general concept a different name.
Same goes for the Ned Rig, Wacky/Wacko Rig, etc...Angler's have been fishing these general(same concepts) for years and years. Why give credit to someone or creation by name calling a Rig within the last 10-20 year's that's been used for the same general Rigging concept's? Most Anglers don't thread on a live Night Crawler on any style hook, catch a Bass, then give that set-up a new name because that method/style has been used and still is.
Just like Angler's Tale's and in those Angler Tale's most of them strive for attention first and then if attention is noticed, then dollar sign's and notoriety follows.
This doesn't describe damiki rig or damiki fishing at all.
+Ean Carroll there are two different ways to fish it. This is the shallow water method that is used most of the year. The deep water method is used in the winter.