The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Essential Concepts
Learn how to jig swimming lures through the ice using lifts, nods, shakes, and pauses that alter the lure’s direction and vibration. Related: [Choosing Ice-Fishing Line](/choosing-ice-fishing-line/) and [Reading Fish on a Flasher](/reading-fish-on-a-flasher/).
Essential Concepts: Winter smallmouth eat slowly; present a tiny hair jig at their depth, not fast. Find stable structure, control depth and drift, and use subtle shakes, long pauses, and light pressure to draw strikes.