when to use trailers on jigs and spinners?

[Dumbbassanglr]

Do people always use trailers on jigs, spinners, buzz, etc? Or will fish eat them without a trailer. It seems like everyone always adds trailers.

[keagbassr]

For me always on jigs and chatterbait and never on spinnerbaits and buzzbaits.

[WRB]

The trailer adds live like movements and profile to most jigs but not mandatory.

Same with spinnerbaits, Chatterbaits  and buzzbaits. 

Tom

 

[The Short Fisherman]

I always use a trailer on a jig, usually use a trailer for a chatter bait, and use trailer hooks for spinnerbaits and buzzbaits

[Glaucus]

Always on jigs/swim jigs/bladed jigs, sometimes on spinnerbaits, never on buzzbaits but I don't fish them much anymore. 

[Koz]

Always on jigs and chatterbaits. Put a Havoc Pit Boss on a chatterbait and it has more action than a $20 hooker on a Friday night. In the spring I put a white paddle tail on a white spinnerbait and that performs better than a plain old spinnerbait that time of year.

[MassYak85]

Jigs and chatterbait I always add one. Spinnerbaits I occasionally will if I want to bulk up the profile or get them to stop just slapping the blades and commit to the hook. 

[JediAmoeba]

I tried to throw a chatterbait yesterday without a trailer because the pickerel kept biting off the tails of the Zako's but it just didn't feel right and the action seemed off - I then realized I had never thrown them without trailers.  

 

For jigs, 100% of the time.

 

Spinnerbaits it's about 50/50.

[scaleface]

Always on a jig , seldom on a spinnerbait . Buzzbaits I have been removing the skirt and gluing on swim baits .