Double Trouble Jigging

White bass serve up serious winter fun, especially when you get atop a decent school and can drop directly to them with jigging lures. Not all jigging rigs and cadences are equal, though, and at times you need to come up with something a little different to tap into the best action. On a recent trip to Oklahoma, Gary Dollahon showed me a cool "shaking" technique he likes to use during the winter, and at times that was by far the best way to draw strikes. I also stumbled across a tandem rig with a spoon and a Bobby Garland Slab Dockt'R, using a little different sort of presentation. It is shown in the video below.

The video, shot by Gary Dollahon and produced by Nathaniel Samsel, is the newest on our YouTube Channel. The channel mostly features how-to videos, and we try to add at least one per week. Several are from bass pros, but we've also included saltwater, trout, ice fishing, a couple from crappie pros and now one about jigging for winter white bass. The channel is only two months old and is just approaching 1,500 total views, so we don't know a lot yet, but the crappie fishing videos have been the most popular in the early going.

No Snow Today

My most recent fishing trip, which was a little more than a week ago, had me landing in Minneapolis in the middle of the Twin Cities' first major snowstorm of the year. Somewhat amazingly, the plane landed on time. However, travel north out of the cities was slow and somewhat treacherous. We drove out of the heaviest snow but not out of the cold. The highest high in three days of fishing was 12 degrees. That's what you should expect when you fish in northern Minnesota in December, though, so I'm not complaining. And the ice served up big fun.

Today's travel forecast looks much better. I'm flying now, and the pilot just announced that it's 71 and sunny in Dallas.  That's not my final destination, but I feel confident that the weather is pretty nice in Tulsa.  A front will push through, and it looks like Thursday morning will be pretty chilly. Still I'll bet we won't have to hurry and take picture of our fish before they get coated in ice.

Stay tuned for fishing reports from Eufaula and Fort Gibson.