While fishing today, I noticed a swim jig snagged in a tree. When I was able to get it out it looked in pretty good shape. Had some various craw as a trailer. Now some questions?

You think it be better of throwing a chigger crawl or a jerk bait as a trailer. Particularly a sluggo. I'm gettin a little low on my plastics, so I'd like to conserve my chigger crawl but will use if they are hitting in. I was just thinking the sluggo my be better throwing through grass, weeds, etc...

Any thoughts or experience with this? Also when fishing a swim jig can I let it snk and maybe work it like a arkie for a couple minutes?

You guys like to yo yo, retrieve, or drag the bottom. Also any time a day that they seem to get the most strikes. I know my jig fishing works from dusk til dawn for me, but most of the time ill swim it on my retrieve.

Hope this makes sense and sorry for not searching. I'm dead tired and need to get to bed

Thanks guys

Das

you can let the swim jig sink, yes. i like retrieving mine over lily pads, through grass, over rip rap. fishing it over pads yields some intense bites by dragging it over a pad and letting it fall in a hole and quickly "popping" it.  you can swim them down in the grass as well with a heavier jig but i prefer to keep a swim jig up in the water column. casting at certain targets like fallen trees and weed edges will get you lots more bites as it will come through the portion of the cover that most baits won't.

 

as far as the trailer goes i pick something with more action rather than less.

Seriously you can't fish a swim jig wrong.

 

You can slow it down you can rip it you can hop it and let it sink.

As to the trailer you can use any soft plastic.

I fish swim jigs with a steady retrieve at various depths, but never on the bottom.

Siebert Outdoors makes a good one and I especially like the NorthStar Original

Swim Jig. My best trailer right now is the Rage Tail Shellcracker. Others I use are

the Rage Tail Menace, GYCB Swimming Senko and MegaStrike Fat Shad.

 

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