Come mid-winter, whether you’re doing a lot of sight fishing or using the underwater camera and dealing with some tough bites, one tip is to use both hands when trying to manipulate your presentation. Oftentimes people will jig with one hand and just get a little bit of a vibration or a quiver. However, when you can watch fish, whether it’s sight fishing or with an underwater camera, a little trick is to use both hands. Therefore use the other hand to modify or turn that jig towards the fish.
Oftentimes these fish will come up and they’ll hit the wrong end of the jig and on a tough bite, they just don’t suck it in far enough. Therefore, when you see a fish coming up, take the line in your fingers and twist it where you can turn that jig, whatever direction you need it to go in.
Make sure to always turn the hook towards the fish. Now this’ll work if you’re five feet of water, seven feet of water and it’s amazing how much you can manipulate that presentation. If you see a fish coming in, turn the bait and turn the hook in towards the fish. You can also twist the line even to take some of the spin out. If that jig turns the other way, just turn it right back. So you’re basically just force feeding that fish. On tough bites especially, it’s a deadly way to optimize underwater cameras or site fishing applications to help you catch more fish.
