hey everyone welcome back to the channel thanks
for tuning in for another episode I recently did a video talking about finesse jig trailers and
what some of my favorite finesse jig trailers were something along the lines of this little
three-inch Pit Boss on the back of this kitec casting jig and I got a lot of questions from
viewers asking me specifically with regular sized jigs what types of trailers I like to
use so not what jig trailer so not the actual trailer but what type of trailer
I like to use
under certain circumstances so I want to break this down to you because I truly believe that the
jig trailer itself is every bit as important as The Jig I I Feel Like The Jig does a good job at
kind of creating the disturbance but the trailer itself is what gets the fish to commit to eating
your bait so the two of them put together work great uh the two of them separately are not that
great by themselves in a jig without a trailer in my opinion is not even worth throwing I kno
w
you can catch fish doing it but I would rather at that point throw just the trailer versus The
Jig because I think there's more fish attracting qualities in the trailer itself but when you put
them together there's no denying that they catch big fish but having said all of that I feel
like the trailer itself is often overlooked by the angler I think a lot of Anglers out there
choose one trailer and they put it on all the jigs for all year long no matter what type of cover
they're fishing
and I feel like that's a mistake I think you want to look at three things you want
to look at your water temperature so time of year that you're fishing your water clarity as well
as the type of cover those three things to me dictate what jig trailer I'm going to use and I've
got five completely different jig trailers that I like to use so I'm going to break those down
for you I'm going to tell you when and where I like to throw each one and before I get into
that though I do want to remin
d you guys that I do a bunch of Lake breakdowns through fish
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I'll put that as well as the lake breakdown uh links in the video description all right so
let's get into this uh like I said I've got five different trailers that I like to use five
different styles so we're just going to go through them in no particular order the first one we're
goi
ng to go with is a standard chunk style trailer this is a Berkeley power bait chunk this is just
a do nothing trailer it's a traditional trailer that is kind of geared after the old Uncle Josh
pork frog look it's just got a A Wider body to allow you to thread it on or clip it through the
hook if you want but the legs themselves are more kind of Massy but they don't provide much actual
vibration they don't do much this to me is one of the best cold water trailers and I think it has
to do wit
h the fact that they don't do much other than kind of just float the trailers up there
uh but they're not putting out so much vibration that they're almost a detrimental to you but I
do really like these trailers for uh a couple of things cold water fishing but I like them if
I'm stroking a jig so I'm looking for something that's got a little bit of flare but we'll let
the bait fall fast back to the bottom which is one of the keys to stroking a jig in my opinion
but they're also a jig trail
er that I'm going to look to use in Ultra clear water in Ultra Clear
Water I generally want something that looks more realistic than provides action or vibration to
allow the fish to find it because in very very clear water the fish have a good look at your bait
and they don't really need to feel the bait so in this case I would rather have a bait that produces
nothing in Clear Water in terms of that vibration and when you look at the profile they do have very
good crayfish imitating profil
e legs so that's when I would throw a chunk now having said all
that I generally don't throw a junk trailer all that much one a jig isn't necessarily going to be
one of my first choices in Ultra Clear Water I do like a jig in cold water conditions so I do throw
it for that and I do like the stroke of jig but a stroking a jig is kind of one of those things
that you got to have the right situation for it it's not something you can just pick it up go do
it all over the lake and catch fish the
next style uh trailer that I want to talk about is what I
would consider your cross style trailer so this is a Berkeley [ __ ] craw on the back uh it's a great
trailer in terms of creating vibration in motion it really gets those legs flapping and to me this
is the type of trailer that I like to use in dirty water conditions so if I'm fishing dirty water
I want my bait to fall right down say a stump or I want to bring it down the rocks and I want to
create vibration and movement to help tho
se fish key in on the bait that's where a big flapper
style craw bait really comes in handy so for me if I'm fishing dirty water that's one time where
I like to do it I also really like to do it on a football head jig so if I'm dragging something on
the bottom I want to create some movement because I'm not going to be able to get much out of some
of my other trailers so if I'm fishing a standard football jig style which is usually going to be
in deeper water I want something that's going to
draw some motion I'm generally dragging it nice
and slow so the legs aren't going to be going crazy but I'm still going to get some motion out
of it to me it's a killer football jig trailer so those are the kind of the times when I like to
throw something that really has a lot of motion the opposite end of that spectrum is more of
your beaver style bait so this is a Berkeley Max scent creature hog now I really really like to
fish these in clearer water and when I'm fishing around lay downs
now here's the reason for that
a beaver style bait is wide and narrow if you can see that so what that allows your jig to do
is get some more gliding motion out of it with a beaver style trailer it's not necessarily going to
fall vertical you're going to get a little bit of gliding motion out of it to me that is a very
good way to trigger reaction strikes in Clear Water so it's not producing any movement with the
flappers but you're getting a little bit of more of a horizontal fall versus
a vertical fall which
means the bass that are tracking it think the bait is trying to move away from them therefore they'll
react and eat the bait so I really like it in Clear Water the reason I really like it when I'm
fishing around lay downs is for that same reason so if I throw this into a lay down bait falls down
I pull the jig up I usually pull it up to the lay down let it fall back down so every time I pull it
up or drop it back down my jig will have a little bit more side to side Mot
ion versus just straight
up and down and that's because of the trailer so in some instances what you'll actually have the
bait do is Glide under the lay down logs under the branches and kind of get into a wider area versus
just straight up and down in that same place that it is so when I'm fishing lay downs I really like
to have that wider profiled creature hog or beaver style uh appearance because it helps me kind
of fish that log and get around throughout that lug so that's something that
I really like to do
like I said it's also really good in Clear Water now the difference between these lots of
vibration out of this trailer no kicking motion out of this trailer I do probably throw
the majority of the time something between that and that's where I've talked a lot about it on the
channel just your simple Pit Boss style trailer it has flapping motion but it's not a huge amount of
flappy motion where it really uh prevents the bait from moving around so if I'm fishing generall
y
what I would consider standard water Clarity anything from two to four foot of water Clarity
I'm probably throwing a Pit Boss on the trailer just because I want a little bit of kicking
motion I want a little wider body that still allows my bait to to move around a little bit so
that's the standard one that I go with because I feel like it's the best of both of those worlds
again this is like an all season kind of fish it anywhere type trailer the last one we're going to
talk about is kin
d of the trend that's been going on the last year two years and that's to throw a
stick bait on the back I've talked about it on the channel before uh for me the stick bait has got a
couple of times when I really like it so this is more of a warm water trailer I don't necessarily
like to do this in cooler water periods I like to do it when the bluegill are active when the
bluegill are spawning and then throughout the warmest part of the summer months and for me it's
all about really fishing
this more around the bluegills or it's about fishing it around grass
so I like to pitch this in the grass holes and part of that is because the trailer is not going
to hold up on the grass it's going to shoot right down into the holes in the grass you'll be able to
work it well when I let one of the ways I like to fish a jig when I'm flipping holes in the grass
is let it hit the bottom and then I like to let it sit there and when you get your stick worm like
this General sitting off of it
just sitting at the bottom it's an enticing thing that a lot of fish
will come and eat the other thing I like to do with this is to stroke this through grass so if
I'm fishing deep weed lines like I love to do in the summer months here in the northern part of the
country I like to throw this up and stroke it down the Deep weed line and it just again this trailer
is a really good way to uh come through the grass but at the same time a lot of your Bites come when
you let the bait fall back do
wn so I like to have a fast fall and there's nothing here that's
holding my my jig up higher up in the water column it shoots up shoots right back down it's
a really good presentation for stroking a jig as well but those are the five main jig trailers that
I'm using right now uh all variations they're not they're not huge differences but they all make
a little bit of a difference so when you choose the right one based on the conditions based on
the cover you're fishing I think you're going
to get more bites if you make the right decision if
you choose wrongly you're probably going to limit the number of bites so let me know what you guys
think do you agree do you disagree do you have some trailers you'd love to share with the rest
of us uh I love fish and jigs guys it's a great way to catch a big fish hopefully you enjoyed
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