No worries - retie and keep casting and jigging. So if a pike bites me off, I lose 59 cents in total. Sometimes you can find them on sale, but the regular street price is $31 for 100 worms (per Tackle Warehouse website). I use one worm style for 99 percent of my jigworm bass fishing, a 7-inch Berkley PowerBait Power Worm, color pumpkinseed. (That’s what I recently found on the Cabela’s website.) I’ll do the math for you: that’s 28 cents per jig head. For example, you can buy a 10-pack of plain 1/8-ounce round lead head jigs, painted black, with a size #2 hook, for $2.80. I mention this to explain why I choose a jig head that is both effective and affordable. In the lakes I fish in Minnesota, northern pike swim among the bass, so losing tackle to toothy critters is a fact of life. Because there are numerous variables, I’ll cut to the chase and simply explain my typical setup.
Hook size depends on your selection of worm, as well as the average size of bass you plan to catch, plus your choice in rod, reel and line. A plain roundhead jig works fine, but jig heads marketing specifically to bass anglers are usually a mushroom (half head) shape. In shallow water, or on days with very little wind, a 1/16-ounce works well, too. Jig head size/weight can vary, but in general most anglers use heads weighing 1/4 ounce or less my favorites weigh 3/32 or 1/8 ounce. Check out the video below from my friend Matt Johnson for a quick rundown on jigworm styles, including the Ned Rig.įished primarily on spinning tackle, a jigworm is a finesse tactic to target bass when they move from shallow spawning cover to the deep weedline. A Ned Rig is simply a jigworm with a shorter worm, typically without an action-style tail. The name “Ned Rig” is far more prevalent today. It’s an old-school term used to describe a soft-plastic worm rigged on a jighead with an exposed hook. The name “jigworm” isn’t used often among today’s bass fishermen. I quickly learned the power of a jigworm, and ever since it has been a mainstay in my bass catching plans. Prior to that day in the boat, I’d caught largemouth bass on Texas-rigged worms and a wide variety of other artificial lures. I was 22 years old at the time and had been bass fishing for 15 years, so I wasn’t exactly a rookie on the water. I was introduced to jigworms in 1987 when I traveled to northcentral Minnesota to join the guiding staff at Camp Fish, which was owned by Al and Ron Lindner, founders of In-Fisherman magazine and TV.
Shown here is the Z-Man Finesse Shroomz jig head and a Z-Man Hula Stickz. Call it a jigworm or a Ned Rig, it flat out catches bass, especially during summer when many of the fish move to weedlines.
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