Ok Im having a thought...

 

 

Ive been thinking about the presentation of slowly crawling a jig/craw across the bottom.   And Im wondering...how it would go, if I put together a similar presentation on either a carolina rig, or a weighted swimbait hook - with the use of a punch skirt. 

 

Hmmm....

 

It may need some tweaking, but I think Im gonna try that this year. 

Water current would probably roll it over to much. 

Idk, I've considered the same thing.

I've entertained the idea of making my own "jigs" with a t-rig, skirt, and pegged sinker. Like a punch rig but lighter. I love fishing a jig, but I lose alot, and I wonder if sometimes I could use this set up in situations that are hanging a jig too much. I also KNOW it would perform better in grass.

Back in olden times - late 90's, early 2000's, BPS marketed a jig called the "Missouri rig"  It consisted of a 3/8 or 1/2 oz football jig with a short wire leader coming out of the back of the head.   The idea was that you put a choppers or similar hula-type grub on the football head, tie a short leader to the short wire coming out the back bottom of the jig head and tie on some sort of weightless tx rigged soft plastic.  Trick worms and lizards were most commonly used.  This rig was semi-popular on Table Rock for a couple of seasons, but hasn't made any headlines for the past decade or so.

 

This rig gave the illusion of a craw slowly moving along the bottom with a different bait stalking it slightly above and behind it.  I tried it one tournament with little success, but I think that the lack of success had to do with my boater who all day consistently fished shallow.  That day in the spring the top 5 winning stringers came from mid-lake points 25 to 35 feet deep.   We fished way up the King river and seldom any deeper than10 feet in water with a foot or less visibility.

Slightly related, I like to use a finesse jig/trailer as my drop shot weight.