I was thinking about lures that have produced more than their share of big bass for me. 3/4 oz Red Eye shad, Bomber Prop A, Rogers Big Jim, Arbogast mudbug, Blakemore CC spinner and others, then there was the jig n pig. Jig with a pork frog trailer , not plastic. I dont know what it is but the pork trailer caught a lot more big bass than plastic.

 

   My question is for you veteran anglers, did pork produce more big bass than plastic for you?

Pork was far superior, especially flipping the shallows. I think the subtle, natural action is the key. 
 

Though the new ones aren’t quite the quality of old, I’ve just about reached the end of my hoard and had to switch. Still better than plastic by a long shot. 

In the early 90s I started fishing jigs with a pork trailer.  One of my mentors who was dominating the bass club I was in was using Zoom Chunks and recommended them to me.  I switched and have never looked back.  It seemed like I  caught more with plastic but without doing a side by side comparison it's impossible to say with any certainty.

Used them a lot in 70's and 80's,

They were kind of the standard.

 

Remember my jigs rusting in those pig savers. 😄

Great trailers on hair jigs as well.

My biggest jig bass were all taken with paddle tail trailers across the years followed by flappy craws.  I’ve done decent with chunks/ pork but don’t know if they average bigger bass or not!

I used to have a couple of jars of pork rinds with me all the time. I liked the #11 pork frog, and the U2 and U3 twin tail trailers. I do think the pork rinds trailers caught better size bass overall.                                                                             It seemed like it took me a long time to catch my first bass on a jig and pig. My first one came on a Arkie jig with #11 pork frog. I usually used a black jig, with black, brown, or blue pork frog.

I’ll chose plastic over pork any day. I used both and plastic was more user friendly and worked fine for me then and does now also. 

Jig n pig ( hair jig w/ pork rind trailers) have caught all 5 of my giant bass 17 lbs to 19 lbs! Caught several DD bass on various other lures hand poured soft plastic worms being # 2, big 7”-9” swim baits #3 and deep diving crank baits #4 and spinnerbaits #5.

Tom

 

I caught fish with it but it never really out produced anything else. On the other hand, I was young, maybe 30 years ago, when i used it. I was still figuring things out back then.

 

Jigs were kind of hard to fish at my lakes at that time. We fished deep strip pits with very little structure and the shallow areas were full of thick grass year round.  The bank was filled with whatever leftover chunk rocks the strip pits produced.  

I used the number 11 pork frog  most  of  the time but would occasionally fish the spring lizard. Black jig brown pork or vise versa.  I think I learned that color combo from Roland Martin. That little bit of contrating color    worked well so I stuck with it.