What is your favorite football jig + trailer combo ? Also colors and weights you throw ... Thanks in advance !

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Rage Craw (blue craw color)

I don’t use football jigs much due to grass, but I do fish with jigs a lot. My favorite trailer is UV Speed Craw.

3/4oz that I make myself and either a chigger craw or double tail grub.

 

Allen

Net Bait Paca Chunks are my all-around goto jig trailers, but sometimes I'll throw on a rage bug or a rage tail craw to upside.

This year, it's been a Strike King Tour Grade Football 3/4 oz. jig in black and blue with a 6" Zoom Lizard (with the head ripped off) in Junebug as the trailer. 

I use two different football jigs, both of which I assemble from pre made components.

 

For deep weed edge summer time fishing, where I'm pitching to pinpoint rock piles, and hard bottom areas just outside the grass, I prefer the Boss heavy hook football head in 3/4 oz. I make my own skirts. I like this heavy hook football head for this, as I'm often pitching into bare spots in grass beds where I know there's rock. So I use these heads on a flipping stick, just as if I were fishing in the thick grass with a Texas rig, or flipping jig. I prefer the football head for this because I can drag it around a little too, and a bullet shaped flipping jig wedges a lot in the rocks. My #1 trailer for this is a 4" Berkley chigger craw trimmed down two "ribs"

 

The second one is the same boss head, with a light wire hook. This is my casting, or "drift and drag" jig. I'll bomb this out over vast rocky areas and just drag it around. 1/2 oz is my go to size for this, and depending on water clarity, I'll fish it either on a M power spinning rod with light FC leaders, thinning the weed guard out to just a few strands...or in a little bit more stained water, I'll use a MH power casting rod, 12-15lb FC leaders, and leave the weed guard alone. I like the 4" Yamamoto twin tail grub for a trailer in this application.

I like a 1/2 oz dirty jigs football jig with a strike king rage craw. Usually some variation of green pumpkin, but my favorite it blue craw.

Suggest GYCB (Yamamoto) weedless 1/2 oz w/Gamakatsu or Owner 4/0 hook. Trailer GYCB Hula grub double tail 4” or 5”

#221& #330

Tom

I throw the Dobyns Extreme and Extreme Spotted Bass versions. I like the SK Structure Bog and or Yamamoto twin tails although I have a couple of other trailers i'll switch up with.

11 hours ago, WRB said:

Suggest GYCB (Yamamoto) weedless 1/2 oz w/Gamakatsu or Owner 4/0 hook. Trailer GYCB Hula grub double tail 4” or 5”

#221& #330

Tom

*Tom - I read a good many FB jig fishermen who swear by the GY twin tail grubs . I don't see them locally and even though they are a bit expensive I'll order from TW next sale to try out (GP/BLK).

Jigs are like lays potato chips in the sense that you can’t have just one.

 

A definite favorite is the Dirty Jigs finesse football head jig paired with a Zoom ultra vibe speed craw 3.5” colors vary but my most used combo is black and blue on the jig and watermelon seed as the trailer.

 

 

Any jig is only as good as the hook used to make. The reason I suggest GYCB football head is the option to choose the hook used. Football is a casing jig usually dragged and hopped along the bottom after making a longer cast, the hook need to be longer then a vertices flipping or pitching type jig to increase strike detection and hook up ratio. Choose wisely.

I believe GYCB wheedless 1/2  FB is 4 for $3.70 add 8 pkg  of Hula grubs for $7.90= bass catching jig with premium hook and trailer under $2.

Yamamoto colors 301 is GP /green-purple, 330 is GP/ purple-small copper, both are good baby and blue colors.

Tom

My own with a standup head in a color I call grasshopper with a YUM craw papi or Christie craw on the back.