What are some of you favorite Jigs?
Favorite trailers?
Whats your favorite color combonations?

Jdub

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.

It is very true you can get them much cheaper if your willing to make them yourself, but my personal preference is the Revenge jigs(tacklewarehouse now has them). Its got a good hook and head shape that gets through lots of crap.

Colors can be kept pretty simple black or brown as your base color for your jig is usually best. Then have fun with your trailer. My favorite is a black and blue jig with a piece of black and blue pork or plastic. Black and reds also work real well. If your going to use pork get Superpork, its much easier to use than unclejosh in my opinion. I like to use a beaver as a trailer, as well as the norie bug it's also a cool creature bait, I'm sure the new yammie kreature would be good as well. I really don't use the plastic pork chunks if I want that look I just use pork otherwise I'm using a creature bait or a double tail grub.

cz

I tend to use Rodstrainer Jigs. Football head in lakes like Oroville and Folsom, Fliping jigs in the junk out on the Delta. On the lakes I tend to use brown, or brown with a little chartuse on the underside. On the Delta it my jigs are black and blue in the winter & spring, black and red in the summer & fall. As for trailers I use twin tail grubs on the lakes (usally in browns or watermellon) On the delta I use reapers and split the tail, Sweet Beavers, and just about anything that is big and bulky in black or brown.

My favorite Delta jig is a 1/4 oz black and blue jig with a witches T reper on the back. 1/4 oz seems small but I am not flipping into heavy weeds with it more just on the edges and into tullies. The slow fall has worked well for me in the spring.

Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what have-yous

For big fish, 5/8oz Assalt King Kobra jig in either black/red or brown/copper with brush hog or super pork bubba sized trailer and black, brown, watermelon/red, or junebug for trailer color.

For general fishing, 3/8oz Assalt Standup jig with twin tail, single tail or regular 3x1" super pork. Same colors are good.

For spider jigs, 3/4 or 1oz football head. My favorite color right now is the Assalt Spyder grub in 'red bluegill'. Irish whiskey is another good one. I'm on the Assalt prostaff so my opinion is biased, but these are all great baits, especially the King Kobra jig.

Also, do you catch most of your jig fish flipping and pitching, or casting?

When casting how do you work the jig?

Ive had some luck flipping, but only 1 fish hopping a jig.

Jdub

I do best casting, but that's just because that's what I'm usually doing. Flippin and pitching work really well when the occasion calls for it, but usually I'm casting at points, ledges, rocks and stuff like that, and working it downhill. As far as working it, I just do things with the jig that I would do with a worm. If you can fish a TX rig worm, you can fish a jig. Same rules apply. Play around with differnt retrieves and let the fish tell you what they prefer. Same with flippin and pitchin. Sometimes they want it presented a certain way, you just have to go through all the different presentations till you hit the one that gets'em going.

This is getting to be the good time of year to really learn how to fish a jig. You can get them right now swimming it, flippin and pitchin at targets, and crawling it around like a worm. Just take some differnet jigs and trailers out, and leave everything else at home and force yourself to use it and you will get bit.



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Go with what Travis is saying. Also, Scott Green at Outdoor Pro LOVES jigs and can give you some solid advice.

Somethings that have also been mentioned are crawling vs. hopping. Most people will tell you crawling will catch bigger but less fish. Hopping will catch more but smaller. To some point this is true and consistently I would say right.

You do have to let the fish tell you what they want but don't rule out ANYTHING. Many of these guys on this board can tell you about the times they were somewhat done with the retrieve then started to crank the jig in and BAM! :o Fish on! During one tournament at Sonoma I already had a good sack and this one tree had been pounded about 20 times during the day but very few fish caught off it. I threw my jig in, crawled it around then started to retrive my jig slowly back (being that I was a little tired). I started to see my jig then a big black shape following it :o Had about four feet of line out, dropped my jig down and BAM! 4 1/2 lber to round out my day! :7

Moral of the story, always be paying attention, try different things and NEVER give up!

Oh, one last piece of advice, WATCH YOUR LINE. Depending on the time of year, I would say nearly 50% of the time I never feel the strike (this while fishing with braid). Remember this with both casting and flippin.

Hope this helps!

Todd