Favorite Football Jig + Trailer Combo ?

[ChrisD46]

What is your favorite football jig + trailer combo ? Also colors and weights you throw ... Thanks in advance !

[roadwarrior]

https://siebertoutdoors.com/products/ols/products/grid-iron-g2-jig/v/GRD-RN-G2-JIG1-3-4

 

Rage Craw (blue craw color)

[kdubracing]

I don’t use football jigs much due to grass, but I do fish with jigs a lot. My favorite trailer is UV Speed Craw.

[Munkin]

3/4oz that I make myself and either a chigger craw or double tail grub.

 

Allen

[Boomstick]

Net Bait Paca Chunks are my all-around goto jig trailers, but sometimes I'll throw on a rage bug or a rage tail craw to upside.

[Bankc]

This year, it's been a Strike King Tour Grade Football 3/4 oz. jig in black and blue with a 6" Zoom Lizard (with the head ripped off) in Junebug as the trailer. 

[ww2farmer]

I use two different football jigs, both of which I assemble from pre made components.

 

For deep weed edge summer time fishing, where I'm pitching to pinpoint rock piles, and hard bottom areas just outside the grass, I prefer the Boss heavy hook football head in 3/4 oz. I make my own skirts. I like this heavy hook football head for this, as I'm often pitching into bare spots in grass beds where I know there's rock. So I use these heads on a flipping stick, just as if I were fishing in the thick grass with a Texas rig, or flipping jig. I prefer the football head for this because I can drag it around a little too, and a bullet shaped flipping jig wedges a lot in the rocks. My #1 trailer for this is a 4" Berkley chigger craw trimmed down two "ribs"

 

The second one is the same boss head, with a light wire hook. This is my casting, or "drift and drag" jig. I'll bomb this out over vast rocky areas and just drag it around. 1/2 oz is my go to size for this, and depending on water clarity, I'll fish it either on a M power spinning rod with light FC leaders, thinning the weed guard out to just a few strands...or in a little bit more stained water, I'll use a MH power casting rod, 12-15lb FC leaders, and leave the weed guard alone. I like the 4" Yamamoto twin tail grub for a trailer in this application.

[5by3]

I like a 1/2 oz dirty jigs football jig with a strike king rage craw. Usually some variation of green pumpkin, but my favorite it blue craw.

[WRB]

Suggest GYCB (Yamamoto) weedless 1/2 oz w/Gamakatsu or Owner 4/0 hook. Trailer GYCB Hula grub double tail 4” or 5”

#221& #330

Tom

[Columbia Craw]

I throw the Dobyns Extreme and Extreme Spotted Bass versions. I like the SK Structure Bog and or Yamamoto twin tails although I have a couple of other trailers i'll switch up with.

[ChrisD46]

11 hours ago, WRB said:

Suggest GYCB (Yamamoto) weedless 1/2 oz w/Gamakatsu or Owner 4/0 hook. Trailer GYCB Hula grub double tail 4” or 5”

#221& #330

Tom

*Tom - I read a good many FB jig fishermen who swear by the GY twin tail grubs . I don't see them locally and even though they are a bit expensive I'll order from TW next sale to try out (GP/BLK).

[Nitrofreak]

Jigs are like lays potato chips in the sense that you can’t have just one.

 

A definite favorite is the Dirty Jigs finesse football head jig paired with a Zoom ultra vibe speed craw 3.5” colors vary but my most used combo is black and blue on the jig and watermelon seed as the trailer.

 

 

[WRB]

Any jig is only as good as the hook used to make. The reason I suggest GYCB football head is the option to choose the hook used. Football is a casing jig usually dragged and hopped along the bottom after making a longer cast, the hook need to be longer then a vertices flipping or pitching type jig to increase strike detection and hook up ratio. Choose wisely.

I believe GYCB wheedless 1/2  FB is 4 for $3.70 add 8 pkg  of Hula grubs for $7.90= bass catching jig with premium hook and trailer under $2.

Yamamoto colors 301 is GP /green-purple, 330 is GP/ purple-small copper, both are good baby and blue colors.

Tom

[Bluebasser86]

My own with a standup head in a color I call grasshopper with a YUM craw papi or Christie craw on the back.