to all you jiggers
 

which is it? bucktail jig and porkrind or jig and rubber. since i pour my own, i find it much easier and faster to pour a jig and add rubber than to tie on bucktail and use rind. i learned jiggin' with the bucktail set-up but since then i've switched over to rubber use only that. it could be that i've gotten better and smarter in the process but i'll think nonetheless i'll stick to it. do you guys use solely one or the other or do you use both, depending on situation, etc? or have you used both and for you, one is decisively better? here's a tip for those who use rubber. i grind, file the lip on the collar down so that it's flush and then i drill press a hole in the top of the sluggo, etc. then i add some thread and glue around the collar then push the rubber onto the collar up to the base of the jig. seems to have more to hold onto that way.

I use both but I find the rubber option to be cheaper... especially when you are going to be fishing the ditch. I tie my own bucktails so it also sucks to see hours of work go down the drain in one night.

Depends on the size of the bait.also in some places like the canal A sparsely tied bucktail an a pork trailor will spend more time on the bottom than a jighead wit a sluggo. the smaller Bait has less resistence in the water.

Rappin the shank of the hook is a trick i learned a while ago an does well to hold rubber baits on.I use a thick thread like size E rod rappin thread an make a diamond pattern make is set up with zap a gap..I do it on the hair jigs also for when i want to use a rubber tail.

It depends....

I like ball jigs and curltails in the canal. The ball jigs get hung up less than bullets , smilin bills or shad heads. The ball and curltail will get down at about 1 OZ less weight than a %$%$%$%$y smillin bill.

However , if I'm drifting them instead of backbouncing balls I like to drift Smilin Bills.

Certain times shad bodies are the ticket. I hate them from a casting and working point of view but sometimes thats what the fish want so that's what they get.

Eel skin jigs is a whole nother thing , a science unto itself.

What's with the Clammer style characters. I corrected it 3 times??? I guess it won't allow me to type %$%$%$%$??

How a bout that Can't type B...u...s...h...

Too political???

I ran into the B...u...s...h... thing a while back myself.I thought u where callin em %$%$%$%$ty bills .:D

thanks for the tip about the ball jigs. i'll just grind the front off the smilin bills, make 'em round. i wrap around the collar and not the shank though. i push the rubber right up to the base of the jig. holds real well that way. you're right , spending all that time and then in a flash, another jig steadfast to the bottom. still fun though, ain't it.

I find myself using jigs more and more every passing year. Here are a few more options to think about when fishing jigs: smelly jelly, rattles, super glue. I just purchased a few hundred dollars worth of jig molds and accessories so I can pour my own. I already tie my own bucktails. I will finally have jigheads with x-strong hooks without paying alot for them.

you must lose as many up there in the rocks as we do in the canal. good luck to you.