Anyone ever fish a swimjig without a trailer?

no, that sounds pointless

Not on purpose I haven't. 

I caught fish with trailerless bitsy bugs as a kid. Nowadays I'd definitely put a trailer on. You can put almost anything behind a swim jig. Personally, I like a 5" grub or a small swimbait.

A trailer adds profile and sensory attraction to a swimjig.

Always use a trailer, at the very least, a twin tail.

No.

 

My favorite is a Rage Tail Shellcracker

 

Twin tail fat albert grub or a Rage Menace grub are my favorite swim jig trailers. 

Menace or the Havoc Subwoofer.

 

I've used...

Small swim bait

Twin tailed grubs

Fluke

But my favorite is a ribbon tail worm

 

 

 

Mike

20 hours ago, bigturtle said:

no, that sounds pointless

Do you always use a trailer on a spinnerbait ? cuz to me a swimjig is a spinnerbait without blades.

3 hours ago, dan94 said:

Do you always use a trailer on a spinnerbait ? cuz to me a swimjig is a spinnerbait without blades.

Ya but a spinnerbait has the blades for attraction.

4 hours ago, dan94 said:

Do you always use a trailer on a spinnerbait ? cuz to me a swimjig is a spinnerbait without blades.

I always use a trailer on a spinnerbait as well. 4"-5" swimbait. 

14 hours ago, CroakHunter said:

I always use a trailer on a spinnerbait as well. 4"-5" swimbait. 

I might have to try this when the weather turns.

It seems and feels "oh so wrong" throwing a jig without a trailer, but if the profile is right, bass will definitely eat a swim jig without one. I've spent several days doing this to prove it to myself after a rather unorthodox fishing friend of mine matched me fish for fish one day, trailer vs. trailerless, just to prove the point. Was eye opening for me.

57 minutes ago, Frenchman83 said:

I might have to try this when the weather turns.

It's great shortly after ice out as well. Slow rolling a 1/2 or 3/4 ounce shad patterned spinner bait with a white or pearl 5 inch swimbait bouncing off the bottom.  

Have  you guys tried one of those swim jigs with a blade attached the hook, kind a like a trailer-hook would be on a spinnerbait?  I threw some of the blades I keep rigged up for  MJ rigs on a swimjig one day and got a bunch of followers and a hit or two.  But I didn't have a good way of keeping the blades on the hook, so after I lost my fourth or fifth one I gave it up.

 

I keep meaning to pick up some of the premade way trailer-blade jigs, or at least rig up a better way to retain the blades, but I have yet to get around to either. 

6 hours ago, Team9nine said:

I've spent several days doing this to prove it to myself after a rather unorthodox fishing friend of mine matched me fish for fish one day, trailer vs. trailerless, just to prove the point. 

If it's the angler I think you're talking about, this guy would fish a buzzbait on the bottom like a jig, just to prove you wrong if you said it wouldn't work.  And he would probably catch fish doing it.

On 2017-08-09 at 11:32 PM, bigturtle said:

Ya but a spinnerbait has the blades for attraction.

Ya but if im gonna fish a swimjig like a spinnerbait its cuz i dont want all that flash i want a more subtle bait or else i would just use a spinnerbait

6 minutes ago, dan94 said:

Ya but if im gonna fish a swimjig like a spinnerbait its cuz i dont want all that flash i want a more subtle bait or else i would just use a spinnerbait

ok, you go do that.

2 minutes ago, bigturtle said:

ok, you go do that.

ok, im sure you can find something on here that explains ways to fish a swimjig incase you dont know

28 minutes ago, dan94 said:

ok, im sure you can find something on here that explains ways to fish a swimjig incase you dont know

I know to put a trailer on mine if that's what you are saying 

Swim jigs are my number one confidence bait in still water, bluegill color with a pit boss/devil spear in gp rigged sideways

I have thrown Swim Jigs without trailers many times, usually because it falls off, or I am walking a shoreline and do not want to walk back to my truck to get more.

 

You will catch plenty of fish naked if they want a moving bait. The Point of the trailer is to change the profile/Action, I still use a trailer because that is what looks best to me plus it's industry standard." Hook up percentage is much better when you don't have a trailer imo. A good skirt helps, sometimes a trailer gets in the way, if conditions are right, you will be surprised if you throw it a few times.

 

If they are feeding on shad and you tie on a white jig, not sure you need a trailer, but good luck finding any tackle company, magazine suggest trying a jig without a trailer. 

 

Most people do not use a trailers on Hair Jig/Bucktails which are fished like a swim jig or any jig for that matter. I know you Why would silicone be different? I never used trailers on Spinnerbaits until a few years ago. Caught just as many fish as I do with a trailer, maybe not the same size, but different profiles/Thump can be important. Experiment, Throw it with a grub, craw, then take it off and I bet you will have different results every time, I wouldn't put money on any of the 3 to work better. Just my take. 

 

I am guilty of buying every new soft bait and doing what everyone does, but sometimes you find new tricks by accident, bass see swim jigs all summer long, that is why I think it works well some days. Offshore fishing is tough, I still am learning, but vibration/Profile/Speed all seems to be important, same with exact depth. I swim/Jig hair jigs and have never thought about a trailer.

Almost never but I can see it working. 

 

Allen 

Nope. Always have a paddle tail or craw trailer on mine.