What do you guys prefer to throw? a jig or t-rigged plastic craw, and why? I like to throw the jig a lot, or t-rig baby brush hog, or paca craw, but not both, just to many rods on the deck then!

I would have to go with the plastic craw. Only because I lack the confidence with the jig.

I always have a jig AND a brush hog tied on.  On tournament days I'll throw the brush hog first.  If and when I get a limit I'll go to the jig n pig and put the brush hog away.

I throw a jig more than anything else. It has been good to me and I have a lot of confidence in it. I do throw a gene larew salty craw some in late summer though.

I'd go with a jig rigged with a craw trailer. Because I have zero confidence in a T-rigged craw.

Clinically speaking,

whichever you chose (Jig or T-rigged trailer) there are still 4 parts: Weight - Hook - Trailer - Weedless System

With a jig, the weight and hook are attached, but with a T-rigged trailer they are separate.

With a jig, the weedless system is provided by a fiber weedguard, but with T-rigged trailer,

the hook-point is embedded in plastic.

Though I use spinning gear, I use braided line, therefore hook-sets with T-rigged trailers are never a problem.

The T-rigged trailer is significantly more weedless than the fiber weedguard, which is only as good

as the tension on the fibers (not too good). In addition, with T-rigged trailers, it's much easier to fine-tune

the exact weight needed, by carrying bullet sinkers from 1/32 oz to 1/2 oz (that would be a lot of jigs).

Roger

Jig. I can't seem to get a bite w/ a t-rigged crawdady. Besides a jig and trailer look like a crawdad anyways.

Craw for me. T-rigged, it is much less prone to hang up then a jig. RoLo's point about fine tuning the weighting is right on the money. For years my first choice was the Berkley Power Craw. I still use them, but now use the NetBait Paca Craw most. I also use Berkley's Power Hawg. Not really a craw, but serves the same purpose. I tend to use the craw more in the spring, switching to the hawg when the water warms.

I have almost no confidence in a jig.

Cheers,

GK

Depends on how deep I am fishing.

If I am flipping it will be a jig.

If I am fishing deep, it would be a t-rig craw.

I would use a Jig, I've never had much luck with a t-rigged craw.

Use a skirted bullet when you T-rig the craw.  It's a nifty option.  Thunder Bullets makes some rattling brass bullets that have a skirt pod on them that work real nice.

I throw a jig most of the time though.  I may not be the best jig fisherman in the world but I can hold my own to the point that if I can't score on the jig, I'm not going to score at all on that spot.

It all depends on what kind of water I'm fishing.  Usually it is rocks and I like the jig best.  We have a lot of man made brush piles in our lakes and nothing comes through a bunch of cedar trees like a trigged craw.  You can crawl it over a limb and let it drop, then crawl it over another one till big mamma grabs hold.  The jigs tend to do the grabbing in the brush.

i tend to use both i like the berkleys gulp crawbug in this lure theres a lil pocket i can add a jig in it to give the lure the hardness in the soft bait and more realistic movement as a crawdad. ive found this to be quite effective for bass off the bottom. another thing i do is use this crawbug as a topwater lure. i know this sounds strange but it does work ive had many big bass hit the lure as it sinks when its near cover.

I will use a t-rigged craw in shallower weedier areas or brush piles.  A jig in deeper waters with rock.

My prime baits when fishing any structure are a Texas Rigged Worm, a Texas Rigged Craw Worm, & a Jig-N-Craw. I will not leave that piece of structure until I have toughly fished it with all three.