I pretty much quit buying prepackaged jigs. I really liked the old Bigboy's heads, and ordered a huge sack of them direct, and just make my own skirts. It turns out to be a lot cheaper than buying them ready-made, and I get to make the colors exactly how I want them. I stick with the Bigboys head because it seems to come through tulles better than anything else I have come across, and it has bar none the best hook out there. That big Gammie gets in that fish, and he's caught.

As far as colors, I'm pretty much a brown guy. More often than not, I'm throwing brown and orange, or a brown with a little black and red. Those colors are my confidence colors, and seem to work well for me just about everywhere. If it's really muddy, sometimes I go to a black jig, but usually I'm using one my brown ones.

My jigs are pretty constant, but my trailers get played with a bunch. I like using pork from late fall through spring. Plastics will work still, but pork seems to get bit more than plastic in the cold. When I use plastic, I'll stick just about anything on the back of a jig. I'll use craws, single and double tail grubs, brush hogs, Sweet Beavers, plastic chunks, or whatever is laying around tat looks big and bulky. I'd like to try using a live squirrel for a jig trailer, but I think there may be some legal/ethical issues with that.