What do the bass want and how can you tell when fishing a swim jig? By paying close attention, you can turn lookers into inhalers with these 3 must-know swim jig tips.
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Swim jigs offer anglers tons of versatility in bass fishing. Anglers can cast them far and cover water to find fish like their spinnerbait cousins, and they can fished at depth like their traditional jig cousins. However you fish them, color and trailer selection are the most important variables for drawing strikes.
Swim-jig guru Bill Lowen shares exactly how he knows when to switch trailers and when to switch colors and also provides a braided line trick that gives him more confidence.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
