“Here is a 9 lb 8 oz that I caught on one of your Pepper Spinner Baits.

This one should have your name on it since you provided me with everything that I needed to catch it.

She had laid out or she would have been heavier. ”

Tony Canington

I gave Tony a call after he sent me this picture and we talked for a while. Tony told me he has only used the Pepper Spinnerbaits he  got from me for all of his spinnerbait fishing. Tony said that he uses 50 lb pound braided line and throws the spinnerbait between sparse pads and reels it back  looking for the big bite. He says it is absolutely necessary to use heavy braid because where he fishes in Georgia you never know when  a truly giant fish, that weighs between 9 and 13 pounds,  will bite.

To catch a MONSTER like this yourself  get the Pepper Custom Spinnerbaits.    Click here for your set!

Good Fishing,

John W. Torsch

Carl’s First Jig Bass of the Year!!!

Carl Russell just sent me a picture of this big bass he caught fishing Spring Lake this weekend.

He was using  the famous pepper jig, of course… the results?  A  4 pound fish! Not too shabby.

Carl was fishing his favorite  gilley colored Pepper jig around docks and shallow cover. His dad Bob caught some more fish throwing a Senko by Carl’s fish. The fish that they caught on the  pepper jig were bigger. Carl told me  that in around 3 1/2 hours they had about 25 bites.

All the fish came from a single cove on Spring Lake and they never really had to move the boat much at all.

The fish were all Bass beds and there was plenty of open spots… but they didn’t see actual spawning fish.

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Dj here,

This is the pig I won my first tournament of the year on at Killens pond in Delaware.

Water was about 62 today and you won’t believe what I got him on…. A hollow body frog.

Black and red mad by Booyah, the pad crusher. He was 3 ounces off from 5 lbs.

Congrats to DJ on winning his first tournament of the year. What a great way to start off the season.

For more info on Frog Fishing check out my DVD  “Advanced Frogging“.

Good Fishing,

John W. Torsch

My friend Jeff who lives up by Blue Lake got a new I – Pilot trolling motor for his boat. We mounted it on the boat and went out fishing. My very First large mouth bass of the year was caught on my favorite 3/8 pepper jig up in the split of a big tree. The bass was around 18 inches and was a very good way to start the year.

For the next couple hours after that Jeff and I caught 10 keepers each plus twice as many small bass on jerk baits. There were several times we had doubles just fishing 14 cm rapalas in a stop and go retrieve patter in blue lakes clear water on weed bed patches and clumps.

It was a very good day of fishing… but frankly every day of spring fishing is very good when you are catching bass on jerkbaits. Most of the early season jerkbait fishing is missed by bass anglers who will not venture outside in the cold weather. This spring has been the warmest March ever in Michigan. For the last ten days you could walk around and it feels like the middle of summer. My point ? With this perfect spring weather you need to be out throwing a jerk bait! You will have days where you catch 30 fish or more… with a good chance of catching one over five pounds.

Here is how you do it!

Equipment…

7 medium heavy moderate action rod 6 to 1 reel and 10 -12 pond line fluorocarbon or mono line

full size suspending jerkbait I prefer a 14 cm rapala husky jerk.

Technique…

Make as long of a cast as you can in clear water and fish obvious fish holding structures such as points and drop offs… Fish cover such as large weed beds and patches. Divide the lake up into 2 parts, all the water that is less than seven feet deep and all the water that is between 7 and 14 feet deep. When you catch a fish pay attention to what depth the fish was at and look for more cover or structure combinations at the same depth.

Work the bait in a sharp stop and go retrieve pattern. DO NOT REEL THE BAIT STRAIGHT BACK AT A STEADY SPEED! The bait must pause and then snap forward in a series of crisp jumps that makes the bait flash and jump around. After snapping the bait a couple of times let it sit for a second or to and repeat.

Important… if you are doing the technique right you should catch a fish or at least see a fish follow the bait back to the boat. If you make several casts on a good piece of structure and don’t get bit or see a bass, then move on to the next location.

If you have clear water and a jerk bait you are going to catch a lot of bass in the spring! To find out more check out my DVD Slash and Burn Jerkbait fishing and before you know it you will be loading the boat with a HOGBASS!

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Good Fishing John Torsch

How are you doing? I wanted to ask you for a few fall tips on bait selection and retrieval of the baits. If you could get back to me as soon as you can I would really admire that. I have my last tournament this weekend and it’s a 2 day competition. So your advice would really mean a lot Ito me because I haven’t won a tournament in my club this year and I would really like to try and end it with a bang. So just to give you an idea of the conditions of where I’m fishing:

1. It is the north east river in Maryland, area code 21901, the water is brackish

2. Lots of docks, rock walls, retaining walls, and sunk trees

3. Water is about 66 degrees

4. The forecast here is dropping to the 60s and calling for rain from tomorrow till Friday

Thank you so much,

dj mitchell

DJ… here is what I would probably use to fish a river tournament in mid fall conditions on a tide water.

• One – Strike king 1.5 KVD Crankbait in the sunfish color.

This has to be one of the most hyped baits of all time but it does work well for all of the different cover types that you will fish on the river you described. Use the bait on a moderate action rod with 14- 20 lb test in either mono or fluorocarbon.  Make sure to make every cast as close to cover as possible and retrieve your bait parallel to the cover.  Make sure the bait is close to hitting or is hitting the cover all the time. When fishing 3 foot of water or less keep your rod tip high to get thru the cover. When fishing 3- 5 foot deep remember to keep the tip down. Try fishing the bait super slow and finessing it most of the time while manipulating the height of the rod tip to make sure the bait is always hitting something. Occasionally try to retrieve the bait as fast as possible to trigger a reaction strike.  Take your time and make sure every cast is parallel to the cover or the bank… this is very important on a river.

• Two- ¼ ounce buzz bait, silver blade, white skirt or gold blade, black skirt.

This is classic fall bait for big fish. Fish the buzz bait on a medium heavy rod with either 20 lb mono or 50 braid, 50 lb braid is a good choice for fishing sparse lily pads as it gets caught less in the stems.  Make sure the buzzbait you use can be worked very slowly and still stay on the surface. Again 90 percent of the time fish it as a slow as it will possibly run without sinking. 10 percent of the time try to burn the bait super fast to trigger reaction strike. Again all casts must be parallel to cover and the bank. Make sure the bait hits the cover on the retrieve. Make short to medium casts and keep your rod tip up to keep the bait on the surface at slow speeds. When the fish strikes the bait drop the rod… wait ½ second and set the hook. Oh, and yes always use a trailer hook.

• Three- Fluke white or green pumpkin

Fish the fluke on a 5/0 heavy wire hook on 14 –20 lb fluorocarbon medium heavy 7 foot rod with a fast tip. Throw the bait out next to cover in likely ambush spots twitch it and kill it. It gets a reaction strike but still is a subtle enough to be finesse bait. Also it is a good option to fish as both a moving bait to cover shallow water and as a drop bait or bottom bait to trigger strikes on the fall.

• Four- 3/8 pepper jig-  gilley color with paca craw trailer

Fish the Pepper jig on 20lb fluorocarbon and a seven and a half flipping stick.  Make your first pitch to wood right to the very center of the tree where the biggest couple of limbs come together this is where the biggest bass will be at most of the time. Also pitch the pepper jig to all of the other pieces of cover you know hold fish. Make sure your jig always falls on slack line give it a couple of hops and then pitch it to the next target.

• Five – Red eye shad ½ red color.

This bait will catch some big bass out of grass and would be my go to bait if the weather gets crappy. In order to really score big with this bait you need an overcast sky, a good amount of wind and some vegetation. When you have all three of these elements then be sure to try rattle bait. Again you have to have all three at the same time… overcast and wind blowing into the weeds. If this occurs it will be a big rattle trap bite if not don’t even throw it, go for something else instead.

Keys to success

• Concentrate most of your time in 1 –5 feet of water

• Try to find bait fish activity

• Fish should be pulling out of dying shallow vegetation. If fishing weed try to fish the deeper outside edges in 3- 5 foot of water, however still hit ultra shallow targets in two foot of water if the targets are on wood rock or docks.

• Use a loop type pitch cast with all of you baits including your crankbait in order to get the bait as close to cover as you can at all time. Every cast you make needs to be close to cover or parallel to shore. This is the most important key to doing well in a river tournament.

• Position your boat and all your casts to put your bait moving parallel to the cover or shore all of the time. Keeping the bait in the strike zone especially with the crankbait and buzz bait is the most important thing I can tell you.

• Remember falling tide is the best. If you find a definite pattern with certain bait and a certain cover type during falling tide move quickly and try to repeat the pattern in as many spots as possible.

Here is the biggest thing.  I can tell you what might work… but every day the set of conditions is very different. I think the baits I said will work well, but the most important thing is that any bait that you use is one that you know how to use and have caught a lot of fish on in the past. The one thing you never want to do in a tournament is use a bait that you do not have a lot off confidence and experience in catching Bass with. If you have never caught a lot of bass on shallow cranks and buzz baits it is going to be pretty hard to master it in one fishing tournament. So the most important thing is to use baits you have confidence in and works for you.

A great way to get some more tips and advice on bass fishing and fishing tournaments is to listen to my audio seminars. They contain a lot of good information and are very helpful. Normally I do not release my audio’s but for a few short weeks I am allowing you to purchase my 13 best downloadable seminars.  They are now available at the link listed below.

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Good Fishing…. and let me know how you do this weekend.

John W. Torsch

This guy could not resist the giant 5/o Gamakatsu hook and the Superior skirts.

For more information about these Custom Spinner baits Click Here or give me a call at 269-213-4334.

Good Fishing,

John W. Torsch

Sunday night was our first conference call of the fall season with Jeff Little. If you were on the call please email me the phone number that you used to call in for the call and the address you want your free jig to be mailed to.

Thank you everyone for leaving a question for the call. For some reason my website was not displaying them immediately because of the spam filter for the comments. I am still not quite sure why it did that but we will get it fixed for the next call.

If you missed the call here right here where you can listen to it and download it from the website.

River Smallmouth Seminar with Jeff Little Download audio file (jeffsmallmouth.mp3)
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Also for the rest of September, if anyone orders Jeff’s new fall fishing for river smallmouth at this link he will give you a free set of lures. When you check out simply put in the comments box “Hog Bass” and he will include a tackle pack with birds and draggin heads. (If you don’t know what birds and draggin heads are then listen to the replay). Also, when you order send me the email receipt and I will send you in the mail a free Pepper Custom Spinnerbait worth 8 dollars for free.

To order Jeff’s new DVD click here

We will be having a conference call Sunday September 25th at 8:00. This is the first conference call of the fall season. I have an extra special guest to kick off the new season.

Sunday night we will be talking with Jeff Little from Blue Ridge Kayak Fishing. Jeff is a small mouth fishing guide from Maryland who has been guiding for 10 years. Jeff gives seminars all over the country about small mouth bass fishing, river fishing and kayak fishing. Jeff has two books and DVD’S that cover these subjects. He also has his own bait company “ Confidence Baits” of lures designed and produced by him specifically designed for river small mouth fishing.

If you look at the picture that I have posted on my website you will probably recognize it. Jeff was in Bassmasters magazine June 2011 edition as a featured expert on small mouth fishing in the North East.

After talking to Jeff on the phone for well over an hour I realized that he is one of the most knowledgeable bass anglers that you will ever meet. Every question that I asked he had a well thought out answer for. He does a great job of putting his experience into easy to understand examples. Even if you do not river fish or kayak fish for small mouth I guarantee that you are still going to learn a load of information from this seminar that will transfer over into you bass fishing.

Call in Details….

The call is free to all that would like to attend.

The information needed to call in is listed below…

Call in Information:
first call in at
Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 339-2500

then
Participant Access Code: 441005#

Till then ,

Good Fishing,

John W Torsch

]]> http://www.hogbass.com/?feed=rss2&p=715 7 http://www.hogbass.com/?p=685 http://www.hogbass.com/?p=685#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:24:01 +0000 admin http://www.hogbass.com/?p=685 Tony from Georgia sent me a picture of this giant 12.5  pound bass that he caught on a frog…. here is what Tony had to say…

John,

It was nice to get your call tonight, Thanks a lot. As for my big bass, I was using a watermelon red ribbit. I had just thrown it in the pads when she simply sucked it down. There was no big explosion she just had it and was moving towards deeper water. As you say in your video “wait till you can’t see the frog before you set the hook.” Well you were right! I didn’t see the frog anymore so I set the hook and the fight was on. Even though this is the slow time in north Fla and south Ga. we still catch quality fish.

As for your your video on how to catch big Bass on a frog, I can honestly say that from what I have learned from you, your daily emails and your videos I now catch more Bass and Bigger Bass. Simply put you are responsible for me catching this #12 1/2 pound bass and the 11.6 that I caught last month. You have made me a better Bass Fisherman.

Thank You.
Tony Canington

If you want to catch a big bass on a frog get my DVD… “Advanced Frogging”   Order Here

Tim and his fishing partner have been kicking some serious BASS!  Take a look at their fish caught during tournaments.  Tim loves the Pepper Jigs.  It is absolutely the best jig for fishing heavy cover.  This is the 3rd set of jigs that he is on since the beginning of summer. He is catching a lot of Bass!

John,

Here are some pictures of Bass all caught on Pepper Jigs over the last few weeks. It’s been a BIG FISH BONANZA thanks to Pepper Jigs!!!!!! My tournament team partner Bob and myself have been slamming not only big fish but quantity’s of fish too.

Jigs catch big fish that is a fact… and Pepper jigs are the King of jigs hands down. Pepper jigs are a must have for any serious bass fishermen.

Good Fishing.

Tim W

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Carl is a big believer in the pepper jig this spring and summer having caught limits of fish on them. He has also bought and watched my jig fishing DVD “Crouching Largemouth Hidden Pigs”, my “Pepper Jig Info Kit” and my “Special 12 piece Pepper Jig Kit”. Needless to say… Carl is very happy with the results that he has been getting.

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Good Fishing,

John W Torsch