Pork Trailer?

[sparky241]

I was reading and some where talking about pork trailers, what is that?And when should you fish it?

[Catt]

Google Uncle Josh!

[Raul]

Pork trailers are true pork skin cut in various sizes and shapes.

[Shane J]

Google WRB and 1972. Also check out outdatedjigtrailers.com

[sparky241]

Shane. Its sent me to twitter, I don't have aN account for twitter

[gulfcaptain]

Pork trailer is a piece of pork fat, which has been brined/salted, normally with some skin on one side and colored.  Some people love them during the winter when fishing jigs slow, some of the better pieces have some buoyancy to them and will slow the jig fall.  Uncle Josh is probably the most famous of the pork trailer baits.  Depending on what you want though you could use them year round for different trailers depending on which model/shape you select.  Would work on spinnerbaits and chatterbaits as well as a regular jig.  Just move of a natural trailer instead of a piece of plastic.

[WRB]

Pork trailers were the first bass jig trailers. Salt cured pork skin about 1/8" thick, stored in salt brine water.

A good pork rind trailer floats, is soft and very flexible so it swims like a natural critter. Soft plastic jig trailers rely on curly shaped tails or appendages to move as they go through the water to imitate the action of a pork trailer.

Colors are limited, shapes are limited and suppliers are limited to Uncle Josh today, unless you make your own.

Popular shapes are frogs, crawdads and eels.

Today's anglers like the colors of soft plastic and don't like pork trailers because the require to be kept wet while fishing or it dries and become stiff.

Tom

[bigbill]

Uncle Josh pork chunks we use them on jigs and spinnerbaits.

[sparky241]

Oh OK thanks for filling me in

[frogflogger]

Don't be afraid to try them - many days they will out perform plastic as a jig trailer - you can trim/slim or do other modifications to them as you become more familiar with them.

[Deleted account]

I was reading and some where talking about pork trailers, what is that?And when should you fish it?

 

I feel so old...

[sparky241]

Don't feel old, I'm just a noob:)

[Jolly Green]

Google WRB and 1972. Also check out outdatedjigtrailers.com

 

That was cold, lol.

[Raul]

Like everything in this sport, nothing is perfect, pork trailers aren´t the exception:

 

Pros:

 

1.- They are by far much more durable than plastics

2.- They have scent and taste if you consider both attributes important

3.- Livelier than plastics

 

Cons:

 

1.- They have to be "doctored" out of the jar, if it´s wrinkled or bent it will remain like that unless you doctor it.

2.- Color selection is quite poor

3.- They come in that brine when, if colored, by accident spills on your boat´s carpet or your clothes will leave a stain that´s going to be there like forever.

4.- Thay have to be babysitted as long as you have it tied, it must be kept moist or it will turn into a mass that´s going to be rigged to your bait like forever, and obviously, as son as you unhook it you have to return it to the jar. In my neck of the woods where temps are always over 50° it becomes a PITA, all day long you have to babysit the darn thing. 

5.- I haven´t purchased in a very long time but back then when I began bass fishing and dinousaurs roamed the Earth the jars where sealed with a metal cap with a ring of plastic as liner, well being brine and all the cap eneded up rusting and the jar became sealed like forever.

[HeavyFisher]

mmmmmm salted pork fat. 

[Todd2]

I still use them. Here's a tip to keep them from drying out. Attach to jig....pitch or cast into 2 to 20 feet of water and then drag or hop back to boat....repeat. It will never dry out.

[fish365]

I still use them in colder water. Like the smaller ones on a hair jig

[bigbill]

I use the pork chunk trailer on jigs and spinnerbaits but I use the saltwater 4" pork strip in white on a bobber and a 24" leader as it gets dark. I did this from being a kid too. As it gets dark you can see the pork strip being pulled every which way in the water. It's just a thinner sliced piece of pig skin.