Texas Toast colored Slab bandit in size medium with a black jighead.

A little history lesson on Jigum Greasebath...Jiggum and Matt (Greasebath) kinda �borrowed� a color combo from Laner (white hot). When the first order dropped to Matt, the new color had not been named. Matt showed up to fish with myself and a couple of my buddies on Cedar Creek. Before we left to fish, Matt insisted we go over to Jiggum�s house so he could pick up his order of Jigs...essentially a full range of weight and hook sizes of these Jigs. Of course, I bummed a dozen or so of them, as the color combo excited me.

The next day we were fishing with Laner (he guided with Big Crappie at the time). Throughout the day, Matt was using those baits (double poles) exclusively, and catching every type of fish in the lake, just not very many crappie, relative to the rest of us. My buddies and I were slinging crappie in the boat like they were going out of style (kinda usual for Big Crappie customers fishing with Laner) and giving ole Matt a real hard time about catching trash fish (non-Crappie). I noticed Laner looking at Matt (kinda feeling sorry for him, I suppose). Just then, Laner looked at his graph, did a double take and started backing the boat up to make it easy for Matt to hit a brushpile. I instantly hooked up on a good fish (2 lb). Suddenly, Matt hooked up a big fish, in fact it is the current lake record black crappie on Cedar Creek. Needless to say, Matt got the last laugh (which he did not take). That very night Jiggum met us for dinner and officially named the jig The Greasebath.

As Paul Harvey used to say...and now you know the rest of the story!

As stated above I�d really hate to have to choose just one........but if I absolutely had to choose just one it would most certainly be bright white body with a chartreuse tail and a black 1/16 oz head.

....wait a dang minute? What happened to �I want mine with an ORANGE head�...???

Ha!!! I actually typed orange and then deleted and put black......there�s no doubt bright orange is a favorite of mine in my backyard but the question was a hypothetical one bait question so I had to tone it down a bit......at the end of the day it�s not what we like but what the fish want

Yeeeeee, I thought so...say, when are those fish in your back yard gonna get to biting?

For me it would be this one.

There are a lot of good jig makers, but nobody came close to Matt aka Jigum Jigs. He was in a league of his own. Glad to see you're tying Matt's original jigs. May have to order a few from you.

Same for me

Chartreuse and anything seems to be the leader.

Mine would be "Neapolitan". A little olive/brown, white and pink. I'm basing my 2019 choice on the results from 2018 when I first had this jig tied and started fishing it. Have one in the boat right now that has close to 300 fish to it's credit. A little bent and beat up but still producing like the day it was first tied on.




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A little history lesson on Jigum Greasebath...Jiggum and Matt (Greasebath) kinda �borrowed� a color combo from Laner (white hot). When the first order dropped to Matt, the new color had not been named. Matt showed up to fish with myself and a couple of my buddies on Cedar Creek. Before we left to fish, Matt insisted we go over to Jiggum�s house so he could pick up his order of Jigs...essentially a full range of weight and hook sizes of these Jigs. Of course, I bummed a dozen or so of them, as the color combo excited me.

The next day we were fishing with Laner (he guided with Big Crappie at the time). Throughout the day, Matt was using those baits (double poles) exclusively, and catching every type of fish in the lake, just not very many crappie, relative to the rest of us. My buddies and I were slinging crappie in the boat like they were going out of style (kinda usual for Big Crappie customers fishing with Laner) and giving ole Matt a real hard time about catching trash fish (non-Crappie). I noticed Laner looking at Matt (kinda feeling sorry for him, I suppose). Just then, Laner looked at his graph, did a double take and started backing the boat up to make it easy for Matt to hit a brushpile. I instantly hooked up on a good fish (2 lb). Suddenly, Matt hooked up a big fish, in fact it is the current lake record black crappie on Cedar Creek. Needless to say, Matt got the last laugh (which he did not take). That very night Jiggum met us for dinner and officially named the jig The Greasebath.

As Paul Harvey used to say...and now you know the rest of the story!


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Thank you for sharing Crapicat! I knew MOST of the back story having fished with Lane for awhile now, but glad you could fill in the blanks!

[quote=Tommy2268]There are a lot of good jig makers, but nobody came close to Matt aka Jigum Jigs. He was in a league of his own. Glad to see you're tying Matt's original jigs. May have to order a few from

You got that right Tommy....Jigum was one of a kind.

Chris

No problem, Slabbedsilly. Lane is kinda the strong, silent, intense type person, not to mention a fellow horned frog. I have a high opinion of him, which he has earned honestly. I have always been proud of his growth and accomplishments. He taught me how to fish his baits effectively, showed me how he makes his baits, and spent a good amount of time discussing his business/guiding philosophy, back when he was just starting out. I have seen him help others that were just starting out, at my request. With all that said, sometimes Laner doesn�t get the credit he so richly deserves. So, I decided to tell this little story, because emulation is the sincerest form of flattery. Jiggum had some very good color combos and tied some very good Jigs...and the Greasebath was based off of Laner�s White Hot, which is one of my all time favorite colors that Lane produces....And I remember very well the long conversations that we had concerning that particular jig, both me and Jiggum, but especially Lane and I.

Thanks for sharing this website. Looked at their baits. They look terrific.