How do living rubber skirt lures do in comparison to the more modern silicon skirts, with regard to pressured fish? So, lets say all the fish at my lake have seen a bunch of jigs, spinnerbaits, and chatterbaits. Would it be worth trying living rubber skirts?

Typically they flare better. They are not as easy to rig.

Here’s a video for you.

Living rubber has more action but less color selection. Also if you don’t keep living rubber jigs stored at a room type temperature the strands will melt together and get gummy

Separating the skirt strands is such a pain I don't use them often. Colder water they are supposed to work better. I don't even carry any when it's warmer out because they melt together.

Allen

I like them, but they do come in very limited color selection, they're difficult to tie/seperate, and fussy with what kind of weather you can take them out in. The best day I've ever had in the kayak was mostly thanks to a living rubber/silicone skirted jig though.

I appreciate the insight everyone. I am thinking, it might give me an edge for pressured fish. Might be worth the trouble.

How does living rubber do in heat, but not direct sunlight? Like in my bag, in the car?

3 hours ago, Bazoo said:

I appreciate the insight everyone. I am thinking, it might give me an edge for pressured fish. Might be worth the trouble.

How does living rubber do in heat, but not direct sunlight? Like in my bag, in the car?

Mine survive the extreme heat in my kayak box, in the heat but not direct sunlight. I don't know if they'd make it if they were left in a car for repeatedly though.

Thanks. That’s helpful. I’ll probably start bringing my tackle bag in for the sake of all my soft plastics.

Personally I’ve never thought the benefits of living rubber outweighs the negatives of it. Especially the skirts gumming together and ruining the whole jig

I’m not sure that it really makes me get any more or less bites than a silicon skirt - but bass will bite a living rubber skirted jig.

I think rate of fall and profile are much sneakier things to toy around with in pressured situations.

Faster/slower fall rates and smaller/larger profiles tend to help a lot if the pressure is very high.

Living rubber might get an extra bite or two maybe - but to me it just looks a lot like a silicon skirted jig but a little different. I don’t think I’ve ever had a day where a switch to living rubber turned them on.

One cool thing about living rubber is it DOES dramatically slow down the rate of fall - like way more than flappy trailers and heavier line - so that’s something to keep in mind because I DO think rate of fall + profile is important and rubber can get you a slower rate of fall with a smaller profile and a heavier jig head - which has its benefits on a windy day where they want it falling slow but they want a smaller bait etc.

I found this video that I thought was pretty helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f8FfnobRtw

Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences.