Favorite Jig Trailer In Cold Water?

[iceintheveins]

I was wondering, what is your favorite jig trailer in cold water? Should I use something more subtle than a rage chunk, say a plain crawdad type trailer or perhaps even pork?

[Bluebasser86]

I usually stick with the same trailers I use during the warmer months. I think it's more about how the jig is moved versus how the trailer is moving. If you fish a jig slowly even an active trailer won't don't much.

[iceintheveins]

When I'm saying cold, I mean water 52 - 60 degrees, so not bone chilling, more like early pre spawn, so late March and into mid April around here in Colorado.

[rockchalk06]

I usually stick with what I have used all year. I may switch up to a lighter jig to move it quicker, but same color etc

[Hooligan]

The best cold water jig trailer is a Lucky Craft Pointer 100. :-)

But really, I'll change up from a Rage Craw or Lobster to a Baby in cold water a lot. It depends on the jig I'm fishing, though, too. On a lot of the hair jigs I fish in late fall and later winter/early spring, I use pork. It's increasingly rare for me to do that, though. Plastics are so much more productive.

[Jigfishn10]

It's the only time I use uncle josh pork. I think that bass will bite down on a pork trailer and will hold onto it longer giving you a little edge in cold water.

[Bluebasser86]

The best cold water jig trailer is a Lucky Craft Pointer 100. :-)

But really, I'll change up from a Rage Craw or Lobster to a Baby in cold water a lot. It depends on the jig I'm fishing, though, too. On a lot of the hair jigs I fish in late fall and later winter/early spring, I use pork. It's increasingly rare for me to do that, though. Plastics are so much more productive.

I'll second that. 50-60 degree water is prime time jerkbaiting temps. The snot moss is bad around here in the spring, then it's leaves in the fall. Makes it to where a jig isn't even an option at times but a jerkbait over the tops of the moss is great.

As for the jig trailer I'd just stick with what you're using normally in those water temps.

[Vinny Chase]

KISS craw or Zoom Chunk

[Siebert Outdoors]

PBJ or a dark brown on a pbj jig if the water is clear. Otherwise black/blue

[MrSwimJig]

I will usually go to a little smaller trailer with a little less action.

[KDW96]

I like to use uncle josh pork craw. They made a tiny craw that was great. Most people dont like to use them because plastic is easier.Id put my pork tipped jig up against anything. Worked for me for 25 years.

[EastTexasBassin]

Rage Tail Lobster - it's my #1 trailer in cold water. It gives a slow fall and the action gets bit, especially in cold water.

[iceintheveins]

Hmm a big trailer makes sense to slow the fall. I also really utilize jerkbaits this time of year as well. The only other hardbaits I throw are a lipless crank and a shad rap type crank this time of year.

[Mike L]

PBJ or a dark brown on a pbj jig if the water is clear. Otherwise black/blue

Yep!

Mike

[Dwight Hottle]

The best cold water jig trailer is a Lucky Craft Pointer 100. :-)

But really, I'll change up from a Rage Craw or Lobster to a Baby in cold water a lot. It depends on the jig I'm fishing, though, too. On a lot of the hair jigs I fish in late fall and later winter/early spring, I use pork. It's increasingly rare for me to do that, though. Plastics are so much more productive.

I love it!

[Jake P]

For something a bit more subtle I REEEEALLLYY like the SK 3X Craw. Claws stand up very well.

[Big Al23]

Chompers, they don't let go.

[WRB]

When I'm saying cold, I mean water 52 - 60 degrees, so not bone chilling, more like early pre spawn, so late March and into mid April around here in Colorado.

You are talking about pre spawn, late winter warming to early spring when big bass are moving up through the water column in deep structured reservoirs. There isn't a soft plastic trailer made that appeals more to big bass feeding on Crawdads than a pork trailer.

Tom

PS; read the Horizontal jigging post.

[merc1997]

pork trailers will year in, year out catch more big bass than plastic. i am basing my opinion on fishing experience most of my 59 years. here are my favorites for my area of the country. i fish table rock lake most of the time, and surrounding lakes such as bull shoals, lake of the ozarks, grand lake to name a few. these combinations will work in any of them. from 50 to 58 degrees, a hair jig with a number 800 uncle josh spring lizard pup. 58 degree water seems to be where a rubber skirted jig begins to outperform hair. i use a 25 uncle josh crawfrog on the rubber skirted jig. i have actually used these same combinations in other areas of the country, including lake falcon, with great success. i know that many people are not familiar with an 800 uncle josh. combined with the hair jig it presents a very slender shilloette, and is a great match for the smaller sized crawdads the bass seems to like from 50 to 58. the 25 crawfrog is like a chunk but with long swimming tails. combined with the rubber skirt on the jig, it makes a much bigger target which bass here seem to prefer from 58 up in the spring and fall. by the way, in the fall when fishing at night, i revert back to the same banks that i fish in the spring. i fish the same combinations at the same temps that i do in the spring.

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