It was tough! The good news is I made it through mostly unscared, mostly. 

I did get a chance to walk out to the boat house to see if bait fish had pushed up to the shallows.  I also ate BBQ and watched college football. Also got to talk with my dad in Florida and he has us setup to do some Red fishing (Red Drum for the non-FloGrown) and Crappie fishing when we go visit next week.  Also, one of my nephews asked about tournament fishing and I got to talk about that aaaand plug SUF ;)

I joke. I'm ALL about family I was happy to hang out and visit.

By the way thank you for all the prayers and support. 😆

It must be AWFUL to have kid that makes you go fishing every day sounds terrible

Lol

Welcome Ralph

I just got some of Mr Barde’s rods and they are really well built and absolutely gorgeous

Welcome Bryce

Aaaaaaye Happy birthday BLAT I hope it’s a great brother

Ricky, I would love to go fishing with you when you’re down this way unfortunately this time of the year is a little tough. My wife and I are heading to Florida the day after Christmas to go see two of our children and an extended family. We will not be backuntil January 5 if you’re still in town by that time we can definitely get together and get on the water, but you don’t need to bring any poles. I have more than enough fish and tackle for the two of us.

Damn Rick, you get my vote

I'm going to take a page out of BLat's playbook and answer your question with a question or 2.  What type of jig fishing are we talking about?  Flipping into heavy cover?  Maybe swimming a jig down a the edge of some grass?  Are you fishing an area/lake where there is a lot of fishing pressure?

If you are flipping blow downs or heavy vegetation, I would think straight braid, in fact I might even go straight braid anyway.  The one exception I might make would be if there is a lot of fishing pressure and your just not getting bites.  I'd more likely switch bait in that scenario, tbh. 

Thank you !

I haven’t taken a minute to watch it. I correct that now.😉