Entry 166-3

Shaw Grigsby

Part 3: When You’re Looking for Bass, Bet on the Iguana

Shaw Grigsby and Strike King IguanaEditor’s Note: When you make $1 million traveling all over the country catching little green fish, you must have learned plenty about bass fishing. Shaw Grigsby of Gainesville, Florida, the host of “One More Cast with Shaw Grigsby” TV show, has learned more than just a little bit about bass fishing. One of the nation’s leading pro-fishermen who’s made nine Bassmaster Classic appearances, has had 47, top-10 finishes on the BASS circuit and has won eight tournaments, Grigsby’s proven he’s one of the best bass fishermen in the nation. Strike King has its pros fish with the company’s new products to provide feedback for the company on how to make its products better and to learn more about how to fish them. This week Grigsby will tell you how to fish the new products that Strike King has introduced and how they can improve your fishing.

Question: How do you fish the Iguana?

Shaw Grigsby and Strike King IguanaGrigsby: Living in Florida, I’ve cut my teeth sight fishing for bass, especially early in the spring. To get those big females to bite, I want a bait that really aggravates those big bedding mama bass. In the past, we’ve only had an 8-inch plastic lizard or maybe a little bigger worm, but with the Iguana we’ve got a giant lizard with lots of legs. The Iguana’s very intimidating to a bedding female bass, especially a large bedding female bass. So, if you’re fishing for bedding bass, and you want to give those fish something different, a lure that’ll intimidate them and a lure that’ll often make them bite when nothing else will, try the Iguana.

There are certain lakes where the bass really love big lizards. I often go to Mexico to fish, and those monster largemouths in the Mexican lakes love a big lizard. You can really catch some of those 8-, 10- and 12-pound fish in Mexico using the Iguana. But another lake where the bass have the tendency to bite bigger lizards is Kentucky Lake. These bass also like big worms and will eat really-big lizards. Therefore, when you go to a lake that’s a big-worm lake, if you’ll start fishing this big bait, you can present the bass with a big new soft-plastic lure that they’ve never seen. Therefore, they’ll eat it more readily.

Strike King IguanaTable Rock Lake and Truman Lake in Missouri are also great lakes for big worms and big lizards. On Table Rock, fisherman use 9- and 11-inch soft-plastic worms, but they never have had an option of a big lizard to fish in that lake. The Iguana now offers that option for Table Rock fishermen. The Iguana is a lizard, and we know that bass like lizards. But because it’s such a big lizard, it will trigger a lot of bass to bite that won’t bite smaller lizards. I think we’ll see a lot of big bass caught this year on the Iguana.




 

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