Well it is July and we have been getting so much rain it isn't funny and so the water is up and flooded brush is holding fish. The problem is the heat and humidity, the fish aren't hitting power techniques or big baits, even 4" and 5" Senkos aren't getting hit. So, what we've been doing for a few years now but more so this season, is using the micro jig, which is a 1/16oz to 1/8oz with a size 1 or 2 hook tied with silicone with a small trailer, usually the last 2" of a straight tail worm. The deal with these jigs is you will get bites and even small fish will hit but my buddy Bob just got a 5lb 6oz largemouth last week with one and that is the great part of these, they do get bit by big fish more often than just a small worm would. The jig in the picture is a 1/8oz jig with a size 1 hook, it has 1.5 tabs of skirt material tied in a fashion to make the jig look full but still keep it from being to heavy. This pattern I like to call "Mossy Pumpkin Craw", it has a pumpkin brown head and the skirt is made of 17 strands of natures edge pumpkin and 17 strands of living image purple craw and it is tied in what I like to call a double skirt technique which gives a layered look with 3 different lengths of material throughout the jig. The hook I used is a size #1 Eagle Claw 500BP Lil' Nasty and the trailer is a 2" tail section from a dark watermelon Case Plastics Jacks Worm, and last but not least is the weed guard. The weed guard on this is an FG-12 with 3 strands taken out, it isn't going to be great in heavy cover but it isn't intended for it, we throw them in pencil reeds and light brush and rock and the small thin weed guard helps in those places and it is a light line bait, 6# to 8# line on a medium power spinning rod is what we use, but they catch fish enough to give them a try.
