So basically this technique is crappie fishing. I did this 30 years ago for crappie. So rig a bass sized bait and crappie fish heck probably catch a lot of big crappie also.
No mention of bobbers , bobber stop. Hover shot. Locate fish determine depth set bobber stop cast and wait. I always pic up little bits of info from you guys love it
Tim, fyi, I notice a ton of TH-camrs apologizing for noise, there was nothing noticeable as far as your sound quality, and I understand your attention to detail, but you didn’t have any issues imo. It’s so interesting to fish with the “damiki rig” mainly because since I was a kid and throughout my decades of fishing, we always called it “ straight lining” and we would hit the ledges of Kentucky lake,or bluff walls on Dale Hollow and Cumberland lake, and straight line as we would drift from a perfect breeze, or very light use of the trolling motor.. and of course there wasn’t the electronics of today, but when we found the suspended bass it was like they were tuna 😂 of course there were far fewer fishermen and some years were lifetime memories. Excellent job breaking it down as always. Much respect ✊
I have been waiting on cold weather excited to get out there and catch some southern GIANTS . Great video keep the content coming always enjoy watching .
Where you at, Chris ? Seems like South if you are fishing this winter. I spent many years fishing banks, wading rivers for Bass here in the Midwest and Id say the #1 thing for fishing banks is : Be Stealthy. Hunt. Once you disturb the spot in front of you , its over . Without knowing your situation, Id encourage you to try and snag a 14' aluminum boat for under 1000$. I def dont have a lot of money, but 500$ for a 15HP on a 14' Alumacraft (1958 ) and a bit of work, changed my life.
Great stuff as always, but I’ll be honest, I’m just counting down the days until the buyers guides. I’ve seen years of them, and there’s always overlap, but still the best part of the year for sure.
Never seen anyone use a bait caster with a damiki rig lol, and zman jerkshad is your best friend with a damiki rig glue it on and you can get it back down instantly after catching one and use it all day long
I'm wondering if they can smell the super glue on the bait, all these scents available to mask smells but yet allot of people using super glue on the heads of the baits.
I wonder about this too. Im thinking once it cures all the way it shouldnt emit any scent but hard to know for sure. Couldnt hurt to add some shad scent after gluing to mask it. Bigger fish are fickle as hell.
Question: reeling down over top of fish or below and coming back above letting the lure sit above. Why get a 12 inch slide high vis slip cork with stoppers stay back cast over, floating the bait in or above the bass? Hope it Make sense . Works on non active feeding fish.
Man, in the winter all I have to do with that rig is do my best to hold it still, being a bit chilly will work the action! If it's warmer, drink some coffee or a Red Bull and your in action...lol!
Does the guppy head stay neutral in the water column? I want to try this technique but don’t know if the guppy head will be horizontal in the water column
BTW, I believe Bill Dance shows the method I use on non feeding bass. Anyways Bill explains the catching method that’s overlooked by many men or women.
Damiki Rig is new to me. Interesting possibilities. When you cast the rig how do you fish it...isn't that not like a slow retrieve with a little swimbait?
@@shadygraves Ok, thanks. Hard to visualize for me...when casted out, will the rig not swing back to the boat? I guess the jigging action comes from working the bait with the rod tip.
So this isn’t a pond or bank fishing technique if you have to use sonar and hit them on the nose with this. Also isn’t it true that you can catch them with any lure if you hit em in the face with it?
Great info as always, Tim. I have heard several references to "watching your bait" on your electronics. Used to do it on ice with Vexilars. I have Helix 8 MDI on my bow, and try as I may, I can't see a bait go down on the screen. Is there one setting I'm missing? Is 2D better? 3D? Thanks.
@@shadygraves Right on, thanks. I have used a Vexlar alot as I grew up in Indiana, so we ice fished alot. I've never really used the flasher on my Garmin 93's. I can see how it would be really effective with this technique though. I'll be fishing Bull Shoals in Arkansas for the next few months, it's a super deep (260+ ft) super clear highland reservoir, so this should work well there on suspending fish. Maybe even some walleye for a mixed bag (and a good dinner 😉)!
It’s unseasonably cold in Texas right now. Has been for a week now and no end in sight. The entire 10 day forecast has highs in the 40s and 50s and lows in the 20s and 30s. It sucks.
You would think that rigging it on a bobber would be a good technique for maintaining a depth, but a "float and fly" technique uses a lighter feather jig, and is supposed to mimic a shad slowly falling as it dies off from cold. Wouldn't hurt to give it a try though.
Thank you. Question for anyone who can assist. What does this head have over my Matt Allen swim head with a small Keitech? I fish from a kayak. Thank you again for any consideration.
I’m going to give this a shot, I just don’t think the bass in my area (south Mississippi and Louisiana) use the deep water in rivers and subdivision canals around me. I hope I’m wrong!
There's seldom much need for lead of any kind in a pond. You CAN, but you probably SHOULDN'T. A weightless Fluke, Senko, or Magnum Finesse Worm will usually catch most all bass in ponds without the need for lead. These 3 lures cast as well as most weighted TX rigs, and the slow, natural fall is usually your best presentation in a pond. On the rare occasion you need more weight, a ¹/¹⁶ or ¹/⁸oz Slider, Spot Remover, or Shakey head is all you need.
Hook or jighead? Hook size depends on jighead size and lure size. Jighead size depends on lure size and desired depth/speed. Also, jighead size is determined by minnow (or shad) lure size. GENERALLY SPEAKING, ⅛, ³/¹⁶, or ¼ is best. ³/¹⁶ is a good place to start.
yeah, probably. i use this same rig, just extremely downsized when im fishing the dead winter. ice never gets thick enough to try and ice fish here in indiana anymore but once the water gets into the low 30's, all i do is use a micro "damiki rig" for finicky fish. 1/32 or 1/64 oz ball head jig with a 1 inch mr. crappie lightening shad on an ultralight bfs settup with 2 lb line. the 1/64th head falls extremely slow, and big bass and big crappie just eat it when its cold; its ridiculously fun.
@@tacticalbassin you literally said "Congratulations Dimiki on having an entire technique named after your stuff". That's giving them some serious credit for something they didn't invent. I've tried "Moping" after the InFisherman had a show on it years ago and never had much success. Maybe I should try it again and call it Dimiki since I am bass fishing lol. Regardless, nice vid.
Don't forget, if ya see some schooling fish blowing up on baitfish, those BIGS will be underneath, waiting for those big dumb baitfish to hit bottom. Gulp.
You keep talking about 'straight' and 'natural' but your lure is hanging diagonally. One way to fix this is tie a palomar knot of 20lb fluoro on your jighead and snip it off, leaving the knot only. Position this knot toward the top or 12 o'clock position on your jighead eye. This will prevent your knot and line from sliding forward and making your presentation crooked. The more you know...
So basically this technique is crappie fishing. I did this 30 years ago for crappie. So rig a bass sized bait and crappie fish heck probably catch a lot of big crappie also.
No mention of bobbers , bobber stop. Hover shot. Locate fish determine depth set bobber stop cast and wait. I always pic up little bits of info from you guys love it
Lets goooo TB. Thank you for the consistent content.
You guys are awsome thank you for the teaching. Im a bass fisher i use your guys technics when i fish. Much love from Toledo,Ohio.
Tim, fyi, I notice a ton of TH-camrs apologizing for noise, there was nothing noticeable as far as your sound quality, and I understand your attention to detail, but you didn’t have any issues imo. It’s so interesting to fish with the “damiki rig” mainly because since I was a kid and throughout my decades of fishing, we always called it “ straight lining” and we would hit the ledges of Kentucky lake,or bluff walls on Dale Hollow and Cumberland lake, and straight line as we would drift from a perfect breeze, or very light use of the trolling motor.. and of course there wasn’t the electronics of today, but when we found the suspended bass it was like they were tuna 😂 of course there were far fewer fishermen and some years were lifetime memories. Excellent job breaking it down as always. Much respect ✊
KILLED IT!!!
Still can’t believe the lake levels are so low this year….crazy!
lower levels actually do improve the fishing, for the near term
Practicing for a tournament tomorrow on Chick, fingers crossed. I am going to try it, have everything I need to try it. Thanks
I have been waiting on cold weather excited to get out there and catch some southern GIANTS . Great video keep the content coming always enjoy watching .
Love the Matt Stefan Dirty Jigs Guppy Head!! How about giving Matt a shout out!! Love you guys and Matt, too!!
Love the red eye jig with an under spin from Z-man at the spillway in cold water
If you want to make it even better when vertical jigging then use a Berkley snap jig to get more side to side movement and roll.
I’m gonna have to try this! I already use Damikis underspin and the bass around here eat it up like candy!
Will y'all please do a pond bank fishing video for us that don't have a boat!!!! For this winter!
Where you at, Chris ? Seems like South if you are fishing this winter. I spent many years fishing banks, wading rivers for Bass here in the Midwest and Id say the #1 thing for fishing banks is : Be Stealthy. Hunt. Once you disturb the spot in front of you , its over .
Without knowing your situation, Id encourage you to try and snag a 14' aluminum boat for under 1000$. I def dont have a lot of money, but 500$ for a 15HP on a 14' Alumacraft (1958 ) and a bit of work, changed my life.
@@jackolson8775 I'm in NC
I highly recommend Jackall's latest Rhythm Wag for this technique. With the 2 fine strands that make-up the tail, it is absolutely perfect 👌
Completely agree!!!!
Another good video thanks I giving up my stubborn ways and going your all's way
Thanks Tim. Good stuff as always!! Catch you soon.
Really like the 6th sense finesse head for this technique
Thanks!
I've had luck throwing this on the Curado BFS too with 7 lb. FC. Nice blend of finesse with a bit of power.
7lb is best for this!!! 👍🏼
Oh daaaam. I just put my order at TW yesterday from Matt’s vid. 😢😢 i really need this damiki set up.
Thanks for all your tips
Good Stuff Mr. Sir this will work nicely for My home Skillet here at New Melones Resv,,, in California 😎👊
Another great video Tim!
I dont see this working in my home lake. Less than a foot visibility and average depth of 1-3 ft. Got anything else for me to try?
drop shot is good shallow
A plow
Great stuff as always, but I’ll be honest, I’m just counting down the days until the buyers guides. I’ve seen years of them, and there’s always overlap, but still the best part of the year for sure.
Never seen anyone use a bait caster with a damiki rig lol, and zman jerkshad is your best friend with a damiki rig glue it on and you can get it back down instantly after catching one and use it all day long
I'm wondering if they can smell the super glue on the bait, all these scents available to mask smells but yet allot of people using super glue on the heads of the baits.
And wd-40 on moving baits
People have been gluing baits on for years without issues
I wonder about this too. Im thinking once it cures all the way it shouldnt emit any scent but hard to know for sure. Couldnt hurt to add some shad scent after gluing to mask it. Bigger fish are fickle as hell.
I’m guessing with it being a reaction bite,there is minimum time to smell the glue.They just want to eat it.
I mean plastic itself has a scent so I think it’ll be fine
Thanks Tim
13:30 I think a drop of crazy glue on the knot would help keep the line more vertical on the eye, at least for awhile.
Question: reeling down over top of fish or below and coming back above letting the lure sit above. Why get a 12 inch slide high vis slip cork with stoppers stay back cast over, floating the bait in or above the bass? Hope it Make sense . Works on non active feeding fish.
I love your channel
Man, in the winter all I have to do with that rig is do my best to hold it still, being a bit chilly will work the action! If it's warmer, drink some coffee or a Red Bull and your in action...lol!
Haha good one!😂🤣
What if instead of a fluke jr i went the other way to the magnum fluke for stripers. Good idea or bad idea
Does the guppy head stay neutral in the water column? I want to try this technique but don’t know if the guppy head will be horizontal in the water column
BTW, I believe Bill Dance shows the method I use on non feeding bass. Anyways Bill explains the catching method that’s overlooked by many men or women.
WARM WHERE TIM?! IM IN NEW ENGLAND! THE WARM IS LONG GONE!! LOL
Damiki Rig is new to me. Interesting possibilities. When you cast the rig how do you fish it...isn't that not like a slow retrieve with a little swimbait?
Kind of. More of a vertical jigging presentation.
@@shadygraves Ok, thanks. Hard to visualize for me...when casted out, will the rig not swing back to the boat? I guess the jigging action comes from working the bait with the rod tip.
So this isn’t a pond or bank fishing technique if you have to use sonar and hit them on the nose with this. Also isn’t it true that you can catch them with any lure if you hit em in the face with it?
True, not a bank fishing technique. False, you can literally hit bass in the face sometimes and still will NOT bite.
Watched Bryan Thift tear them up with this setup during a tournament. It definitely works and it's inexpensive.
Sonar doesnt show rig. If i estimate how far down it is and i am a few feet above smallies in the late fall, will they come up for it?
Have you transferred these ideas to bfs yet???
Great info as always, Tim. I have heard several references to "watching your bait" on your electronics. Used to do it on ice with Vexilars. I have Helix 8 MDI on my bow, and try as I may, I can't see a bait go down on the screen. Is there one setting I'm missing? Is 2D better? 3D? Thanks.
LiveScope
If you turn the gain up on your 2D it will pick up smaller things, although the higher it is the more “noise” there is on your screen
@@ssoutdoors9828 Thank you for the helpful response. 👍
Tim...If you don't have Livescope, would you use a flasher and act like your ice fishing em?
Absolutely! That's how we used to do it with Sassy Shads, Silver Buddies, Li'l Georges, and Crippled Herrings.
@@shadygraves Right on, thanks. I have used a Vexlar alot as I grew up in Indiana, so we ice fished alot. I've never really used the flasher on my Garmin 93's. I can see how it would be really effective with this technique though. I'll be fishing Bull Shoals in Arkansas for the next few months, it's a super deep (260+ ft) super clear highland reservoir, so this should work well there on suspending fish. Maybe even some walleye for a mixed bag (and a good dinner 😉)!
So the hover rig is a jighead-less damiki rig?
It’s unseasonably cold in Texas right now. Has been for a week now and no end in sight. The entire 10 day forecast has highs in the 40s and 50s and lows in the 20s and 30s. It sucks.
Best time for this technique . Deep smallies
Again, very few smallmouths in Texas.
@@shadygraves spots too will bite that in deep water. Don’t know if you got them
I'll have to try a small hog farmer spunk shad for this.
We call that deadsticking here in NC.
Could you use it on a float and fly?
You would think that rigging it on a bobber would be a good technique for maintaining a depth, but a "float and fly" technique uses a lighter feather jig, and is supposed to mimic a shad slowly falling as it dies off from cold. Wouldn't hurt to give it a try though.
Bet that was a skipjack that flashed on your bait! Seen them eat crappie minnows out on Chick
It almost feels like it’s end of summer here in the south
Savage Gear DS Minnow on a guppy head…… 🔥 try it.
Did Tim sell the champion?
Thank you. Question for anyone who can assist. What does this head have over my Matt Allen swim head with a small Keitech? I fish from a kayak. Thank you again for any consideration.
It's more of a vertical jigging presentation.
@@shadygraves , thank you. I missed that part!
So? we want a firm knot at the top to hold position? Not a loop knot?
I’m going to give this a shot, I just don’t think the bass in my area (south Mississippi and Louisiana) use the deep water in rivers and subdivision canals around me. I hope I’m wrong!
I think Gus Gustafson won a tournament down there somewhere doing this technique catching small mouth.
Ain't no smallmouths in Louisiana
@@shadygraves I wish there was! I think he was talking about Pickwicke lake, the bottom part of Pickwick is in northern Mississippi
Can you do this from the bank of a pond at all?
I'm going to try this from the bank of one of the local ponds here.
yeah with a bobber
There's seldom much need for lead of any kind in a pond. You CAN, but you probably SHOULDN'T. A weightless Fluke, Senko, or Magnum Finesse Worm will usually catch most all bass in ponds without the need for lead. These 3 lures cast as well as most weighted TX rigs, and the slow, natural fall is usually your best presentation in a pond. On the rare occasion you need more weight, a ¹/¹⁶ or ¹/⁸oz Slider, Spot Remover, or Shakey head is all you need.
Wouldn’t a loop knot give that bait a more life like look?
It’ll make it move around too much. You want horizontal presentation
What size hook wrks best???
Hook or jighead? Hook size depends on jighead size and lure size. Jighead size depends on lure size and desired depth/speed. Also, jighead size is determined by minnow (or shad) lure size. GENERALLY SPEAKING, ⅛, ³/¹⁶, or ¼ is best. ³/¹⁶ is a good place to start.
AKA Tight-Lining
I wonder if this technique would work through the ice lol
yeah, probably. i use this same rig, just extremely downsized when im fishing the dead winter. ice never gets thick enough to try and ice fish here in indiana anymore but once the water gets into the low 30's, all i do is use a micro "damiki rig" for finicky fish. 1/32 or 1/64 oz ball head jig with a 1 inch mr. crappie lightening shad on an ultralight bfs settup with 2 lb line. the 1/64th head falls extremely slow, and big bass and big crappie just eat it when its cold; its ridiculously fun.
@@tagg946 I'll definitely be trying it
I thought my monitor started shacking 🤣
Add some garlic scent and bass inhale it.
Hold those packages still. We can't see them if you keep waving them around.
the damiki rig is only good on boat or on dock fishing only from my experience, but on shore fishing is not that efficient at all
Agree. I did catch bass from bank but I had to pretty much dead stick it and drag it back in.
Pls upgrade the camera
So why not a simple drop shot.
Not so sure I would be giving Damiki so much credit for this when it's been around (Moping) in the walleye world.
It's not giving credit... in tournament bass fishing this is literally called "The Damiki Rig". We're just explaining what that is and how it's done.
If it had that much credit there, they should have named it first. Give credit where its due.
@@tacticalbassin you literally said "Congratulations Dimiki on having an entire technique named after your stuff". That's giving them some serious credit for something they didn't invent. I've tried "Moping" after the InFisherman had a show on it years ago and never had much success. Maybe I should try it again and call it Dimiki since I am bass fishing lol. Regardless, nice vid.
@@damikiUSA who should have named it first? It was called Moping.
@@gregc7314 We used moping for deep small mouth too. Al Linder did a tv show about 40 years ago on it, if I remember correctly
AKA Biwa rigs
Don't forget, if ya see some schooling fish blowing up on baitfish, those BIGS will be underneath, waiting for those big dumb baitfish to hit bottom. Gulp.
Do you have to use live scope? Or can you do this without electroncs
Dirty jigs guppy head 1/0 or 3/0
You keep talking about 'straight' and 'natural' but your lure is hanging diagonally. One way to fix this is tie a palomar knot of 20lb fluoro on your jighead and snip it off, leaving the knot only. Position this knot toward the top or 12 o'clock position on your jighead eye. This will prevent your knot and line from sliding forward and making your presentation crooked. The more you know...
So basically you’re SOL if you don’t have a boat.
Oh yeah I’m voting for President Donald Trump