Gussy's Guide to Moping

Bassmaster pro Jeff Gustafson is a fairly positive guy, so the idea that he’d celebrate “moping” seems quite out of character. Watch him doodling a jig in soft water, though, and you might think that he’s gone a little loco. What he’s using, though, is a technique that he’s convinced is the next big thing in bass fishing.

“Moping,” the act of using a fluke-style bait vertically on a jighead, is “almost like ice fishing,” he said. “You’re watching it on the electronics the entire time, following it down, and then the number one thing is to keep it above the fish, make them look up to it.”

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