Posted By: SenkoSam
Skirted jig & trailer used like a spinnerbait - 02/11/20 10:50 AM
First, do you add a trailer to a spinnerbait ?
Second, if you do, what?
Years ago when Uncle Josh pork frogs were sold, I added a #1 or #11 to my black skirted, 3/8 oz, weedless Arkie jigs. I found out that I caught more bass with a jig than using Texas rigged plastic worms but not for reasons you would thing. One day as I was retrieving a jig back to the boat, I noticed the pork trailer's tail action. If you've never used a pork frog as a trailer, the action part are the two triangular shaped tails that flutter like a flag when retrieved horizontal to the bottom or that flap slightly when jigged on bottom. Here's the rig:
It should have been a clue that you can catch bass by swimming a jig which is like retrieving a spinnerbait seeing as how skirt and trailer action get fish to bite (other than the blade on a spinnerbait). First time it happened was when I was leaving a spot and forgot to retrieve a jig lying on bottom. As soon as the boat started moving, a bass hooked itself on the jig. After that, I found three jig trailer designs I preferred to use that did as well if not better than the pork frog.
Note the plaster molds I made to make duplicates just in case they were discontinued as in the case of Uncle Josh going out of business. Also note the wire rig used to keep the plastic frog trailer from getting dislocated on the hook or coming off. Action is the same.
It amazing that for so long I bought into the idea that a jig and trailer is seen as a crawfish or frog by bass. Neither are skirted nor do any trailers look nor move like anything in nature. Skirt bulk & flutter and trailer action combined account for all strikes. I'm sure there are other trailers, but the one's pictured do well on a horizontal retrieve in shallow water.
Second, if you do, what?
Years ago when Uncle Josh pork frogs were sold, I added a #1 or #11 to my black skirted, 3/8 oz, weedless Arkie jigs. I found out that I caught more bass with a jig than using Texas rigged plastic worms but not for reasons you would thing. One day as I was retrieving a jig back to the boat, I noticed the pork trailer's tail action. If you've never used a pork frog as a trailer, the action part are the two triangular shaped tails that flutter like a flag when retrieved horizontal to the bottom or that flap slightly when jigged on bottom. Here's the rig:
It should have been a clue that you can catch bass by swimming a jig which is like retrieving a spinnerbait seeing as how skirt and trailer action get fish to bite (other than the blade on a spinnerbait). First time it happened was when I was leaving a spot and forgot to retrieve a jig lying on bottom. As soon as the boat started moving, a bass hooked itself on the jig. After that, I found three jig trailer designs I preferred to use that did as well if not better than the pork frog.
Note the plaster molds I made to make duplicates just in case they were discontinued as in the case of Uncle Josh going out of business. Also note the wire rig used to keep the plastic frog trailer from getting dislocated on the hook or coming off. Action is the same.
It amazing that for so long I bought into the idea that a jig and trailer is seen as a crawfish or frog by bass. Neither are skirted nor do any trailers look nor move like anything in nature. Skirt bulk & flutter and trailer action combined account for all strikes. I'm sure there are other trailers, but the one's pictured do well on a horizontal retrieve in shallow water.