Heaving Heavy Jigs for Late Fall Bass Fishing

After several months of not being able to do fishing (or much else) while recovering from a broken arm, I'm glad to be back on the water again with fishing ally Bill Bjork.

Best of all, it seems like the the late fall bass run is in full swing right now.

The fish shown succumbed to 1/2 to 1 oz weedless jigs flipped into shallow brush in Wahweap Bay on Lake Powell, Utah using heavy line today (16th November). We had a smattering of smaller ones too. It seems the deepest or primary brushline is most commonly found at 24 feet deep, and I've had up to 30 relatively smaller bass (up to 2 pounds apiece) per trip lately where that outer deeper brush line intersects with vertical underwater ledges or rocky humps having shallow brush atop the ledges or humps, such as in the back of Friendship Cove.

In many areas, it is common to find a pronounced secondary brush line running from 12 to 15 feet deep, and this brush line has live "garlic grass" in it. This is a bottom-creeping vegetation, that if crushed between your fingers, exudes the odor of fresh garlic, and it remains alive, hosting many small organism that liv ein the garlic grass through the winter, forming the base of a food chain there. Wherever that secondary brush line with the garlic grass intersects with vertical walls, especially where rocks have slid off the walls into 12 to 15 feet of water, the relatively bigger bass (like in these photos) are balling up at those intersections.

A happy Russ Bassdozer is back at it after recovering from a busted arm.

Jigs like these are the ticket right now. Photo shows 1/2 oz Alabama Jig (upper left), 1/2 oz Style T Jig (right), 1 oz Punch Jig (lower left). The 1 oz jig in shallow water has a presence and an impact when it hits the bottom that lighter jigs don't have. It's hard work but rewarding to punch these big jigs through brush all day, and when the wind gusts, the one-ouncers are mandatory to feel bottom and detect bites.

For pricing and current availability of such jigs, please visit http://www.BassdozerStore.com.

Fishing ally Bill Bjork beams proudly with two of many bass Bill caught today.