![]() This always bothered me - I’d drive home from the tournament wondering how much bigger my paycheck would have been if I’d gotten those missed fish into the boat. “I’ve had countless days when I’d get maybe 20 jig bites while flipping heavy cover, and have five of the fish get off because the hook didn’t stick them well enough. “A standard single-hook jig wants to roll or tilt to one side when you pull it across cover, regardless of its head design,” he said. Ingram is convinced that many of these missed bites are the result of the bass hitting the jig just as it rolls over sideways while crawling across an underwater obstacle. Other tournament anglers I’ve discussed this with tell me the same thing- even the best jig fisherman can miss or lose up to 50 percent of his jig bites over the course of a fishing day.” “But there are times, especially during cold fronts and when bass are being heavily pressured, when you miss a lot of fish on jigs, or have bass get off that weren’t hooked just right. ![]() “I’ve always loved to fish a jig - the fact that it gets lots of bites and catches so many big bass makes it the perfect tournament lure,” Ingram told Bassmaster. With its menacing-looking twin upswept hooks, I was certain that Ingram’s latest foray into lure design was nothing more than a hang-up waiting to happen.īut after watching Ingram fish the Bass Grabber, and then trying it successfully myself, the genius of the radical twin-hook design became crystal clear. ![]() But when he first showed me the prototype of his Bass Grabber jig, to say that I was skeptical is putting it mildly. During the many times I’ve shared a boat with him over the years, I’ve seen him assemble custom spinnerbaits and buzzbaits from boxes of components he keeps onboard his boat glue pieces of tube baits or plastic worms together to come up with the perfect color combination even create an entirely new genre of bass lures by sticking a feathered hook on a sliced-off section of a soft plastic jerkbait. ![]() Besides being one of the best jig fishermen on the planet, Ingram has to his credit eight Classic appearances and a total of four BASS tournament victories. ![]()
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