What is your go to color pattern and trailer?  I always find myself going with a sexy shad color with a twin tail grub trailer in either white or blue.

This is red hot for me right now:

 

NorthStar Original Swim Jig (bluegill)/ Rage Tail Shellcracker (green pumpkin sapphire)

This is red hot for me right now:

NorthStar Original Swim Jig (bluegill)/ Rage Tail Shellcracker (green pumpkin sapphire)

How do you rig the shellcracker on the swimming?

Either a North Star 5/16oz white original swim jig with a Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper in White Trash color or a 5/16oz Okeechobee original swim jig with a Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper in magic craw swirl.

1/4 oz Brovarney's Blue Crab (Looks just like blue gill) /w rage craw in amber/green flake

1/4 oz Brobarney's white/gold /w subwoofer trailer in white

3/8oz strike king bluegill swimjig with either a berkley havoc beat shad as a trailer, or a ripple shad

I make my own but the best pattern by a mile so far this season has been what I call "green gill" , the head is made using steel blue with watermelon on the top and the skirt colors are molting craw living image and a simple watermelon with blue flake.

This is red hot for me right now:

 

NorthStar Original Swim Jig (bluegill)/ Rage Tail Shellcracker (green pumpkin sapphire)

Same jig only with a Cane Thumper trailer in various colors.(depends what I have on deck)

What is your go to color pattern and trailer?  I always find myself going with a sexy shad color with a twin tail grub trailer in either white or blue.

North Star Custom Baits Flip n Swim Salsa with a Watermelon red Berkley Havoc Subwoofer.

How do you rig the shellcracker on the swimming?

How do you rig the shellcracker on the swimming?

Vertical and Horizontally. I'm on my phone or I would search, but Big O has posted some pictures of it.

How do you rig the shellcracker on the swimming?

 

 Verticale hook, just like the Rage Rig.

Check out gamblers southern swim jig and their twin grub trailer. Bluegrass camo/blue grass

3/8 oz. Dirty Jigs swimjig in Alabama bream with a watermelon candy Zoom super speed craw.

Roadwarrior,

That has me intrigued.  Can youe explain how you are rigging the shellcracker on the jig?  I'm not familiar with what you described.  Do you have it where the shellcracker is swimming vertically or laying flat?

 

Thanks

I use the Dirty Jig  in shad colors, Ala Bream, and Ayu colors.  For trailers I use the Optimun Double Diamond, Roboworm Shad, Keitech or Big hammer.

 

I use the 1/2oz or 3/4oz size jigs.

What is your go to color pattern and trailer?  I always find myself going with a sexy shad color with a twin tail grub trailer in either white or blue.

Blue Gill colors for me as most waters I fish don't have a strong shad population. Even at that though, shad colors always produce.  NorthStar flip n swim jig is nice in new Gill and Salsa.  I'm awaiting my first Siebert Outdoors swim jigs in a blue gill pattern (unsure of the actual name). They look really good though.

Roadwarrior,

That has me intrigued.  Can youe explain how you are rigging the shellcracker on the jig?  I'm not familiar with what you described.  Do you have it where the shellcracker is swimming vertically or laying flat?

 

Thanks

 

Holding the Shellcracker vertically, pierce the nose and run the jig point through about 1/4" down.

Scrunch the nose up the jig as far as you can. Turn the hook to come up through the bottom and

out the spine. If you have judged the distance properly the hook will lay flat and parallel to the bait.

 

There is a picture of the rig in this thread: http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/118549-favorite-swim-jig-trailer/

How do you guys work your swim jigs? I'm very new to jigs in general.

Do you guys just retrieve like a crankbait?

Also, what does the bite feel like?

steady retrieve for me, and trust me when they hit it it's like a freight train you cant miss it

How do you guys work your swim jigs? I'm very new to jigs in general.

Do you guys just retrieve like a crankbait?

Also, what does the bite feel like?

I haven't found a way that doesn't work yet. Slow roll with a bob here and there of the tip, dragging the bottom the whole way in, burning it just under the surface, jumping it off the bottom or just like a shaky head.

The bite is a vicious one. That's why I love jigs so much.

with Northstar flip and swim, is the jighead too wide to rip through heavy cover such as milfoil?  Even with a streamlined head on my revenge jig, i will ocassionally snag milfoil (but can rip through it).

with Northstar flip and swim, is the jighead too wide to rip through heavy cover such as milfoil? Even with a streamlined head on my revenge jig, i will ocassionally snag milfoil (but can rip through it).

It will come thru it, just not as easy as the original swim jig though. I prefer the original.

Thanks guys for giving me some more confidence with the bait. Looking forward to my first bass on it!

with Northstar flip and swim, is the jighead too wide to rip through heavy cover such as milfoil?  Even with a streamlined head on my revenge jig, i will ocassionally snag milfoil (but can rip through it).

I haven't used the originals to compare it too, but I really don't have any trouble ripping it threw any grass. It's rounded pretty good.