Also wondering – Should I add some sort of trailer to it? What time of the year is best to use a jig like this? Is it used slow like a Texas rig on the bottom or just a straight retrieve?
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Disastrous-Guest-236 on
Looks like a casting jig. I would throw on a craw chunk as a trailer. Make sure you fan out the weed guard too
catastrapostrophe on
This is a weedless jig. If you want a trailer, look for something called a “chunk” bait. It’s like a crayfish, but shorter.
You can really use anything— curly tail, frog, whatever. But chunk baits are typical.
Anthropic27 on
Weedless football jig. Trailer is always good to use. Jig and bounce the bottom. Rocky, cover type areas.
phosphorescence-sky on
This looks to me like a structure jig or just a regular casting jig but the pointed nose kinda looks like a Strike King DB structure jig. Put a craw style trailer like a Berkley chigger craw in the 3″ size and trim the trailer down if needed to make it more compact. Another fav trailer is the Rapala cleanup craw, but go with less action on the claws for colder clear water especially early spring. Fish it over laydowns or drag slowly on the bottom with pauses and give it a pop every so often. Set the hook good on it as they have strong weedguards and if you find yourself missing hooksets fan the weedguard out and trim a tiny bit off. Watch some videos on exactly how to trim it if unsure or you’ll get hung up a lot.
StickyDankStank on
Looks like the VMC utility jig, jigs work year round. Yes you should add a trailer, a 3.5-4″ craw/double tail grub and if you want a 3.5″ paddletail trailer if you want to swim it. Yes they can be dragged slow like a t-rig or they can be swam on a straight retrieve depending what you want to do.
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Looks like a casting jig. I would throw on a craw chunk as a trailer. Make sure you fan out the weed guard too
This is a weedless jig. If you want a trailer, look for something called a “chunk” bait. It’s like a crayfish, but shorter.
You can really use anything— curly tail, frog, whatever. But chunk baits are typical.
Weedless football jig. Trailer is always good to use. Jig and bounce the bottom. Rocky, cover type areas.
This looks to me like a structure jig or just a regular casting jig but the pointed nose kinda looks like a Strike King DB structure jig. Put a craw style trailer like a Berkley chigger craw in the 3″ size and trim the trailer down if needed to make it more compact. Another fav trailer is the Rapala cleanup craw, but go with less action on the claws for colder clear water especially early spring. Fish it over laydowns or drag slowly on the bottom with pauses and give it a pop every so often. Set the hook good on it as they have strong weedguards and if you find yourself missing hooksets fan the weedguard out and trim a tiny bit off. Watch some videos on exactly how to trim it if unsure or you’ll get hung up a lot.
Looks like the VMC utility jig, jigs work year round. Yes you should add a trailer, a 3.5-4″ craw/double tail grub and if you want a 3.5″ paddletail trailer if you want to swim it. Yes they can be dragged slow like a t-rig or they can be swam on a straight retrieve depending what you want to do.