This is a DEADLY Spring Swim JIG Trick

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  • Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
  • Bass get in shallow water during spring and in this video I show you a deadly spring swim jig trick - from rigging to how to fish it - to catch bass.
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  • @erichthompson1194
    @erichthompson1194 Рік тому +11

    I've honestly starting using almost exclusively elaztech baits on the back of my swim jigs because it slows the fall rate way down and it makes the jig stand up when you kill it. Makes it a killer around holes in the grass and when they're roaming around beds

  • @dawnparker2014
    @dawnparker2014 Рік тому +4

    Mikey it was great meeting you at the ramp yesterday. My husband and I really enjoyed talking to you and appreciate your time. Great video...well try next time
    .

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +1

      Dawn had a good time talking to you guys at the ramp as well, looking forward to crossing paths with you and your husband down there again!

  • @BeyondHeadwaters
    @BeyondHeadwaters Рік тому

    Excellent technique; many thanks for sharing

  • @johnbutler307
    @johnbutler307 Рік тому

    Mikey thanks for all the great tips.

  • @basssolutionsoutdoors3856
    @basssolutionsoutdoors3856 Рік тому +1

    Love swim jig fishing. Good tips

  • @chrischrist7982
    @chrischrist7982 Рік тому +1

    Excellent thanks!

  • @jeffbarrett4797
    @jeffbarrett4797 Рік тому

    Great Lesson

  • @bigmikefishingchonicles9950

    Thank you for the tip

  • @kevinbeaudean704
    @kevinbeaudean704 Рік тому

    Thanks Mike. Swim jigs are a blast anyway you fish them. I use a toad trailer on a light swim jig, same thing. Works great, I'll give the big swim bait a go.

  • @patrickmahoney3479
    @patrickmahoney3479 Рік тому

    I discovered this technique by accident on Lake Guntersville. It works. Thanks for the new details on this method.

  • @dfox7777
    @dfox7777 Рік тому

    Mikey I absolutely love this technic, I've caught some of my biggest fish doing this!

  • @racerxv6valvoline424
    @racerxv6valvoline424 Рік тому +1

    Awesome video Mikey...Next time I am down in Florida I';ll give it a try not much grass on our SC lakes. As always much love to the Bogs....we miss him when he is not with you....

  • @vinnylivoti9567
    @vinnylivoti9567 13 днів тому

    Good stuff Mikey!

  • @mikeeller557
    @mikeeller557 Рік тому

    Love it , Thanks Mikey

  • @carloscotto937
    @carloscotto937 Рік тому +1

    Great video Mikey!

  • @zachreynolds3727
    @zachreynolds3727 Рік тому

    This technique got me back into bass fishing only thing I do differently is add a bandito or rage bug to as a trailer that keeps the bait rising through the retrieve but that’s really my only difference

  • @timmcmaster6435
    @timmcmaster6435 Рік тому +1

    AWESOME SEGMENT!!! FLORIDA ❤

  • @makinbigbassmemories6450
    @makinbigbassmemories6450 Рік тому

    Always great information

  • @FreedomFishing
    @FreedomFishing Рік тому +7

    Learned this last year. Very sneaky technique! Important to note that when it gets really hot in the summer, this works early morning before the sun rises. After the sun and temps rise, this bite falls off. Then the wrightless EZ with a slower cadence will get bit. This is full of great info on the cadence, and what to do when a fish misses it the first time! And a great trick for huge bites.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +4

      yeah it's killer during the shad spawn too on okeechobee and kissimmee

    • @FreedomFishing
      @FreedomFishing Рік тому

      @@mikeybalzz great video man! I wonder if they hit this overnight too. It really is a thrilling bite.

    • @gageknauff3599
      @gageknauff3599 Рік тому +1

      Most definitely, I've had some "killer" summer mornings fishin the swimjig this way. Throughout heavy wood/grass the technique produces for sure.Tight lines🤙

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +1

      @@FreedomFishing that is one thing i practically never do - night fishing. seems like it would work, especially a big black jig with a round rubber skirt.

    • @FreedomFishing
      @FreedomFishing Рік тому

      @@mikeybalzz Dude exactly my thoughts, a black swim jig, skirt, and trailer! Between the wake, and that unique tail plop, its got to be money.
      I never do it either, but I'm doing some this year on the Jon! I heard night time = huge bites.

  • @thomascarmichael6760
    @thomascarmichael6760 Рік тому

    Used to use a similar technique in Virginia at Back Bay. We used a Johnson Silver Minnow with a white or chartreuse twister tail. Needed a stout rod as Back Bay is basically 29,000 acres of mostly milfoil. I’ve had fish out there that I could get turned and they would snap the line. I’m talking 15-20 pound test. That’s heart stopping action!!!

  • @Austin_Torres
    @Austin_Torres Рік тому +2

    Learning from one of the most down to earth Nice people. Been enjoying your content for years bud keep it up.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +1

      appreciate you hanging with me all that time homie!

  • @gmooney57
    @gmooney57 Рік тому

    If all goes well my boat comes out of shop tomorrow and I’ll be working on the tech in a day or so.

  • @jasonzimmerman288
    @jasonzimmerman288 Рік тому

    going to give this a go on the Potomac up here in VA for Snake head in the lily pads. Snakes pile up in them and the only way I have found to fish across the pads is with frogs.

  • @e.1228
    @e.1228 Рік тому

    The hits just keep coming!!😁🤟

  • @jeremyduncan9165
    @jeremyduncan9165 Рік тому +1

    As usual some sound effects spot on!! Great tip.

  • @ptpatrickusmc
    @ptpatrickusmc Рік тому

    Never would have thought to rig that soft bait upside down. Excellent video.

  • @williamgould2470
    @williamgould2470 Рік тому

    I really like the technique. I especially like the fact that you did something I was taught 40 years ago by Orlando Wilson and that is to spread that weed guard on the jig. I do that on all my jigs with heavy weed guards and it really improves the hook UPS And yet keeps the dait weedless. very few talk about that.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      it's the simple little things man.

  • @waynelagarde7956
    @waynelagarde7956 Рік тому

    I caught my PB last spring on a white Dirty jigs no jack swim jig with a bandito bug on the back.

  • @Seasterberg
    @Seasterberg Рік тому

    Mikey, had a tournament yesterday on Hatchineha couldn't get a bite. Then I remembered this video because I saw some heavy matted grass and pads tied on a weedless Big EZ and swam it over the tops of that stuff and they were crushing it and I ended up catching my limit for the tourney and man seeing them destroy it thru that grass was awesome. Wish I would have spent more time finding those grass patches early in the morning. Thanks for the great content man !!!

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      that's awesome! it's such a fun bite too!

  • @throwluckfishing5785
    @throwluckfishing5785 Рік тому

    Lets GO! .........
    Catch alot of fish on the Gambler EZ Swimmer!

  • @notsogood6249
    @notsogood6249 Рік тому +1

    You gave some good little tips. Can you do you a video on skipping jigs under docks? Only if you want to.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      when i get back to bama and get on smith i definitley want to do some of that.

  • @TheTinHorseMonty
    @TheTinHorseMonty Рік тому

    Good stuff brother!

  • @LowBrowFishing
    @LowBrowFishing Рік тому

    In the deep south with shallow lakes choked with veg, a swim jig is our swim bait head! I love taking that skirt of and running it through the thickest slop I can find.

  • @mattjordan9804
    @mattjordan9804 Рік тому

    Awesome 411 as usual

  • @byronhendrixfishing8393
    @byronhendrixfishing8393 Рік тому

    I’ll be throwing that Nichols though. I got to check out Brooks operation a few years back when I had a job site at FSU. Super chill dude.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      that'd be cool - I should go over there and do a walk thru!

  • @jasonbeary5771
    @jasonbeary5771 4 місяці тому

    You're saying this isn't well known? I'm surprised if that's so. I'm a what-ever fisherman. I've been fishing swim jigs with exactly a Gambler EZ with part of the front bit-off to shorten the bait. The swim bait makes the jig wobble. It's almost like a subtle crankbait action.

  • @pennysgarage
    @pennysgarage Рік тому

    Love swim jigs, love the EZ, love grass!! This shit is PERFECT!!

  • @created2fish714
    @created2fish714 Рік тому

    What lake is in this video? Looks great

  • @byronhendrixfishing8393
    @byronhendrixfishing8393 Рік тому

    Going to toss one around on Seminole when the elites finish I’m going to stay an extra day

  • @pennysgarage
    @pennysgarage Рік тому

    And you're using my new favorite color EZ 😫

  • @jerrydellhaggerton6928
    @jerrydellhaggerton6928 Рік тому

    Great video. How do you like the Lowrance trolling motor now that you have used it a while?

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +1

      i love it, the integration with my electronics is huge. good in most grass situations but does get a little bogged down in super thick mats/hydrilla.

  • @MMACAMVIDEOS
    @MMACAMVIDEOS Рік тому

    Very cool video and technique! How would you rig up using a BIG EZ? Just upsize the swim jig a hook size and to a 1/4oz? Impressed how you can attack that thick cover and walk right through it!

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +1

      Yup Lotta guys on the big o do

  • @calebwozniak4390
    @calebwozniak4390 Рік тому

    I have a hard time finding swim jigs that are less than 3/16, I really want to find a 1/8 size head. Even with 3/16 there are only a couple companies that make them. Any suggestions on where to get 3/16 or smaller jig heads? I prefer to tie my own if possible.

  • @jeffreyrodgers5835
    @jeffreyrodgers5835 8 місяців тому

    I like to cut the first half of the big ez off and use the rear end. More compact and really comes through the pads alot better. Not sure why but i think toho bass go stupid for that technique almost year round in water 4 ft or deeper. They just hammer the jig ez

  • @tylerfish6206
    @tylerfish6206 7 місяців тому

    Use the river 2 sea soft plastc swimbait as a trailer you’ll thank me

  • @joshbirtchetfishing5196
    @joshbirtchetfishing5196 Рік тому

    I'm digging the Komodo alot on the back of my swimjig.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      For being a streamlined bait that thing really swims in the water when you reel it

    • @joshbirtchetfishing5196
      @joshbirtchetfishing5196 Рік тому

      @@mikeybalzz oh ya it does. I'm still thinking of other ways to fish it.

  • @pensnut08
    @pensnut08 Рік тому

    I KNEW that was the Hammonds Herring!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL I get in that store and... POOF, money gone LMAO!

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      i'm the same, and I always stand in the back room and stare at the bait.

  • @Jhossack11
    @Jhossack11 Рік тому

    I wonder how (compared to frog fishing) how that would perform over vast Lilly pad fields here in Michigan?

    • @davidstratton9918
      @davidstratton9918 Рік тому +1

      Swim Jig in the pads is deadly.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      it works, i've done it in wisconsin on those natural lakes down in the metro areas with pad fields and a slight color to the water.

  • @catchinwithkyle5567
    @catchinwithkyle5567 Рік тому

    All you need is Hammonds herring. Works north to south 💯

  • @Jschuhfishing
    @Jschuhfishing Рік тому +16

    Hurry and take it down! I know where this is going, gunna give away my secret. 🤣

  • @jamesf1505
    @jamesf1505 Рік тому +1

    Cool setup Dude. I've looked everywhere online and can't find 3/16oz. In this Jig 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +2

      I take full responsibility my mouth was talking faster than my brain. I've been throwing a 3/16 Ned and I got them confused LOL it is a 5/16 swim jig.

    • @jamesf1505
      @jamesf1505 Рік тому

      @mikeybalzz fishing Thanks Dude!!!!

  • @jimwarden9617
    @jimwarden9617 Рік тому

    Hey Bog!

  • @krustysurfer
    @krustysurfer Рік тому

    I ran a smaller version today😉
    Bassomatic 🤙aloha

  • @Snocsnoc
    @Snocsnoc Рік тому

    Homie Homersons 😂

  • @jimmoore8606
    @jimmoore8606 Рік тому

    Mikey, Please respond about the 3/16 size goat. I can NOT find one. Thank You. Love Your channel

    • @Huxxadoodle
      @Huxxadoodle Рік тому

      Pretty sure he meant the 5/16. May have mixed up 3/8 and 5/16 and just misspoke.

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому +2

      yeah that's a mouth type on my part sorry bud, it is a 5/16

  • @williamknight5142
    @williamknight5142 Рік тому

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Jamez_Predictedit
    @Jamez_Predictedit Рік тому

    Thought I was Fam....
    Turns out I'm just Homie Homerson. 😔 😂😂

  • @The_Bass_Stunters
    @The_Bass_Stunters Рік тому

    There is only ONE swim jig son! That’s the Megabass Uoze swim jig and a 4” Spark Shad! Absolutely a giant killer!

  • @budgetbassin407
    @budgetbassin407 6 місяців тому

    unfortunately i only have heaviergoat jigs my lightest is half

  • @256bassfishing
    @256bassfishing Рік тому

    You're speaking my language! Love a swimjig, especially when I need to fish it just under the surface of the water above submerged grass up shallow in a gill color or bait fish color with a trailer that gives a huge amount of drag. Got really good at it fishing Neely Henry in Gadsden AL just junk fishing.

  • @TheBigrob0422
    @TheBigrob0422 Рік тому +1

    Is that a 5/16 Oz swim jig I know you mentioned 3/16 I didn't see them on gambler site on 3/16

    • @joebee1459
      @joebee1459 Рік тому +1

      Think he meant 5/16, I don't think they come in 3/16.

    • @TheBigrob0422
      @TheBigrob0422 Рік тому +1

      @@joebee1459 I figured I just wanted to be sure

    • @joebee1459
      @joebee1459 Рік тому

      @@TheBigrob0422 they are some of the better heavy cover swim jigs I've tried.

    • @Kctfishn
      @Kctfishn Рік тому

      5/16 or 3/8

  • @amorton94
    @amorton94 Рік тому

    I can't find a 3/16oz swim jig anywhere, regardless of brand. I'm not even seeing a 3/16oz on Gambler's site.

  • @d3adp94
    @d3adp94 Рік тому

    What color is that bait?

  • @paulciesla4774
    @paulciesla4774 Рік тому

    Hey Brother, Gambler does not show a 3/16 in the GOAT Swim Jig on their site. Is that a prototype? You probably got it first, cause you da man?

  • @stephenwilliams6556
    @stephenwilliams6556 Рік тому

    Lol. Why are you so close to the edge of that lake? We don't see you there anymore.

  • @DavidMccallister65
    @DavidMccallister65 Рік тому +1

    I don't understand why manufacturers aren't making all jigs with screw locks. That needs to happen!

    • @fishinfrenzy2544
      @fishinfrenzy2544 Рік тому

      Nope doesn’t work with z man plastics

    • @DavidMccallister65
      @DavidMccallister65 Рік тому +1

      @@fishinfrenzy2544 screw z man plastics

    • @fishinfrenzy2544
      @fishinfrenzy2544 Рік тому

      @@DavidMccallister65 lol you must not of used them very much best plastics out there Ive caught 50-100 fish on the same Ned rig and swimbait before glue it on are you are set for the day.. most plastics you are lucky to catch more than 3 fish with…

    • @fishinfrenzy2544
      @fishinfrenzy2544 Рік тому

      @@DavidMccallister65 only a few baits that aren’t z man that I throw being the spunk shad, strike king menace and rage craw and Keitechs

    • @tims_always_fishing7117
      @tims_always_fishing7117 Рік тому +2

      6th sense makes the best swim jig imo, best colors and hook.

  • @nickbowenfishing2885
    @nickbowenfishing2885 Рік тому

    3/16 or 5/16

  • @bakergang89
    @bakergang89 Рік тому

    I really hate the way they drag the fish along the top of the water i know u dont want them to jump but damn that seems really boring pulling them in like that.

  • @kenmccarthyfishing
    @kenmccarthyfishing Рік тому

    I don’t think I’ve ever fished a swim jig 🤷

    • @tims_always_fishing7117
      @tims_always_fishing7117 Рік тому +1

      One of my favorites, always have 1 tied on

    • @kenmccarthyfishing
      @kenmccarthyfishing Рік тому

      @@tims_always_fishing7117 Tim I’m going to give it a try,just because you recommend buddy,I’ve been fishing for 47 years and there’s just curtain lures I’ve never favored 👊

  • @terrybonsell1561
    @terrybonsell1561 Рік тому

    Wow , u can even spell

  • @dormie9
    @dormie9 Рік тому

    Ok I’m only 2 minutes in.. do you mean 5/16? You keep saying 3/16 … Is there even a 3/16 swim jig on the market with a heavy hook?

    • @mikeybalzz
      @mikeybalzz  Рік тому

      yup 5/16, too much FL sun on my brain 🤣