Best Jig For My Purpose?

[Matthew Veillion]

I have a clear pond that i flip baby brush hogs on these underwater calvert pipe things and catch fish. I think a jig would work best for this but what kind? A swim jig? Flipping? Football? I dont have weeds or anything to get caught on either

[deep]

I'm sure there's a more correct answer; but I use grass/ alien head jigs for everything, be it brush, grass, wood, or rocks (casting or pitching, I don't flip). I don't lose too many jigs either, and catch my share of bass. Takes the guesswork out of which style of jig to tie on anyway.

Swim jigs I strictly use for swimming, but I have swam my regular jigs (craw trailer), and jigged my swim jigs (paddletail trailer) when I felt too lazy to tie the other one on.

[A-Rob]

If there isn't any grass/tree limbs/brush...just a pipe and clear water, I'd tie on a finesse jig like a Eakins finesse jig (I think made by Jewel?)

The lighter weight will let you have a quieter presentation, and an enticing fall thru clear open water.

But if I were fishing these without hearing what you said, I may put a small creature bait on a real light weight..like a tiny brush hog (like you are doing!) or a 6" Lizard.

If the bite is real tough I'd even try a wacky rigged senko and let it flutter down into the pipe....hope that helps!

[BassinMD]

I would use a green pumpkin or brown jig with a very full skirt like the northstar premier series and trim it to just below the hook then trim the edges a bit, pair it with a trailer that has morerealistic look to it and subtle action like a yama fat baby craw, or even a chigger craw, with the extra short skirt it will puff more on the fall and appear more as an injured crawdad also trim your trailer a bit so that when the skirt is down only th head and claws are exposed. Also use te lightest weight you can get away with 1/4 - 3/8 would be ideal. Hope this helps, tight lines

[Siebert Outdoors]

I would throw a Football head or a Brush head jig in a brown, green, or mix of the two color.

[backwater4]

A 1/8 oz. football jig (all black) with a small craw trailer. I've been catching them all year on this setup in small ponds.

[smalljaw67]

I really like the eakins jig, I make my own finesse jigs and they are modeled after the eakins jig. Use one of those in you favorite color and then Strike King make a Bitsy Craw designed for the Bitsy jig, it is 3" and has the perfect bulk for the Eakins jig, I have no doubt you'll will be catching a ton of fish on that setup, for some reason, maybe the heat, the finesse jig has been killing them this season.

[fishhook]

Matthew, throwing up into those culverts I would use something like a 3/8 or 1/4 ounce Arkie head jig that will help you skip further back into them. In clear water I would keep my colors simple and use natural colors like watermelon in bright conditions and move to something just a tad darker like PB&J in low light conditions. Experiment with your trailers, the baby brush hogs for example work well and so would craws, senkos, worms, grubs and beavers.

Most importantly keep an open mind, observe and let each fish catch tell you something about what the fish want and how they want it. If you do that you will become confident in your technique which will lead to many successful fishing trips!

[Bankbeater]

I have been doing good in clear water using 1/8 oz. bitsy bugs. Blue/black has been working the best.

[clayton86]

Id throw a bitsy bug also with a baby rage craw for a trailer. Another thingI would try its not a jig but I throw into culvert pipes alot behind my house and my best lure for it is a weighted wacky rig hook nose hooked threw a zoom super fluke flick it as far back as you can into the pipe count to 5 give it 2 jerks and pause 5 again if they give you the chance to anyways.

[Sam]

Check out the Northstar jigs.

You will not be disappointed!!!

[JigMe]

Depends on the depth, if it's shallow then I will suggest 1/4 finesse jig with matching trailer. Or a football jig would do it as well, if you want faster fall rates.