Deep Bladed Jigs
GREG MANGUS IS one of those anglers who like to tinker with lures and think outside the box.
Sometimes it leads to a new technique.
Like a couple of years ago, when he and friend John Bales were fishing a northern Indiana lake. Mangus grew weary of catching small, keeper-size bass on drop shots and small swimbaits.
“We couldn’t get a big bite on anything else, so I started messing around with a bladed jig,” recalls the Angola, Ind., angler who is known as one of the best in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
He pulled out a JackHammer bladed jig rigged with a soft-plastic trailer, tossed it into 20-plus feet of water, let it sink and began ripping it off the bottom, similar to how he fishes a spoon or blade bait.
