Fall Fishing on Lake Worth: Jigs and Soft Bait Trailers for Bass Fishing

Recently, I spent a few days exploring and fishing Lake Worth. It's a Texas bass fishing lake that's not too far from my house, but this was my first bass fishing trip to Lake Worth. While it's known as a large bass Texas lake, it can produce decent-to-good numbers on any given day.

I am a huge fan of rock-based Texas reservoirs or rock lakes. This is probably due to the fact that I enjoy jig fishing so much, especially 1/2 oz to 1 oz football jigs. So I spent most of my time fishing for largemouth bass and spotted bass with football jigs.

I did fairly well, too. Most of my bass fell between 14-16' inches with a couple of fatties in the mix. My two favorite jigs on Lake Worth: All-Terrain Tackle Rock Jigs completed with Hag's Tornado 5' Junebug bass worms. B

Drag, pop, pull, pause ... That's how I used these quality jigs. I highly recommend this lake for anyone who wants to improve their jig bass fishing.

Check out the jig and trailer featured below. Such an amazing duo!

Shaky Head Jigs

If there is one bait that I know will catch largemouth, even on the toughest of days, is shaky head jigs.  Several years ago, at the urging of a fellow angler (a friend, too), I started investing my money into a nice shaky head jig collection - one of varying sizes, weights, colors, and styles.  An angler can feel overwhelmed at the sight of so many options, even on the most logically organized online tackle store.

I started with independent, small business jig constructionists (a fancy, pretentious way of saying "jig maker"), and by contacting these individuals via email, I was able to learn what kind of shaky head jigs I needed for specific conditions and environments.  Though shaky head fishing is generally considered a finesse technic, it can be used with heavier jig heads and bulkier baits, especially in deep water over bass haven structure.

Tourney Jigs, owned by Carl Boaz, makes superb shaky head jigs.  Lunkercatch.com will carry his fantastic jigs in the coming weeks.  Carl even made a 3/4 9/0 football head-style shaky head jig for Lunkercatch.com, which will be used in several upcoming tournaments.  Most likely in the JC Outdoors Fall tournament series on Lake Fork.   There are many different styles and sizes available to anglers.

I'll discuss other shaky head jigs and the actual fishing technique in the coming weeks.  In addition, I will discuss why to use certain jigs in a particular situation.

Photo: Tourney Jigs