You may need to fish different locations to find the winter spots for the early winter time of year in the waters you frequent. In addition to jigs, you should try soft plastics such as straight-tailed worms and tube baits. The more Yankees around, the more consistently will the tips in this article apply, but the tips here can also be adapted for milder winter climates down South and out West.
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I also discovered many years ago that fish at the extreme cold edges of their feeding range refused to take squiggly or vibrating baits such as curly tails or plastic-lipped crankbaits for example. That's why I said to toss a few straight worms and tubes into your jig bag too. Fish these soft plastics on jig heads - they will act more sedentary on jig heads rather than if you rig them Texas, Carolina or splitshot. Getting back to the jig 'n pig. I like to use a double tail twister grub as the trailer instead of pork or plastic frog chunks.