The Match Game

[JohnFromLisbon]

Last year I got into jig fishing and this led me down the path of matching certain jigs with the right trailers. Now, before you @ me, I know that it matters a lot more to me than to the fish, and that you can pretty much get bit on any jig and trailer combination. This is about the aesthetic, as the Instagram crowd would say.

 

Here are some I've found that go great together.

 

PB&J Dirty Jigs Finesse Jig and a Cinnamon Black and Purple Flake (221) Yamamoto 4" Double Tail Grub

 

 

Watermelon Pumpkin Craw Bass Patrol Silicone Football Jig and a Hard Candy Strike King Rage Chunk

 

 

And my absolute favorite, the Green Pumpkin Craw Bass Patrol and a Falcon Lake Craw Range Chunk. Green on top, red bottom.

 

 

On these last two the light from my desk lamp does not do them justice. In direct sunlight they look a lot better. And compressing the file down to a sub 350kb JPEG didn't do wonders for that first one either.

 

So, what do you got? What combinations have you found that just... Click?

 

[roadwarrior]

Watermelon Pumpkin/ Hard Candy rocks!

 

 

                                           

[JohnFromLisbon]

@roadwarrior it's a great summer-ish color for our clear water reservoirs. It doesn't really show in the photo, but the skirt has some purple flash to it

[scaleface]

My all time favorite was a black jig with brown pork frog or vice versa . Had my best jig day on a black jig with black /chartreuse pincer Larew Salt Craw . Black and chartreuse is a killer color in early spring time dirty water .

[softwateronly]

big fan of...

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Siebert’s California Craw with a pit boss in California color is pretty sweet looking

[Derek1]

58 minutes ago, JohnFromLisbon said:

Last year I got into jig fishing and this led me down the path of matching certain jigs with the right trailers. Now, before you @ me, I know that it matters a lot more to me than to the fish, and that you can pretty much get bit on any jig and trailer combination. This is about the aesthetic, as the Instagram crowd would say.

 

Here are some I've found that go great together.

 

PB&J Dirty Jigs Finesse Jig and a Cinnamon Black and Purple Flake (221) Yamamoto 4" Double Tail Grub

 

 

Watermelon Pumpkin Craw Bass Patrol Silicone Football Jig and a Hard Candy Strike King Rage Chunk

 

 

And my absolute favorite, the Green Pumpkin Craw Bass Patrol and a Falcon Lake Craw Range Chunk. Green on top, red bottom.

 

 

On these last two the light from my desk lamp does not do them justice. In direct sunlight they look a lot better. And compressing the file down to a sub 350kb JPEG didn't do wonders for that first one either.

 

So, what do you got? What combinations have you found that just... Click?

 

Those look great. #2  would be a killer here. You have me pretty close to pulling out the new jigs and trailers to play this game. 

[Catt]

I'd eat that! ?

 

 

[Bankbeater]

Black with a sapphire blue craw is one of my go to combinations. 

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, Bankbeater said:

Black with a sapphire blue craw is one of my go to combinations. 

^THIS^ and a plain ol green punkin jig with a green punkin trailer. 

[JohnFromLisbon]

9 hours ago, Catt said:

I'd eat that! ?

 

I can see why, this thing is all the rage with the fish around here.

 

[Deleted account]

Matching trailer to jig is important to me, not so much in color (although in really clear water, sometimes) but rather in size, profile, and action, make or break. Of course I'll be fishing nothing but a War Eagle jig and a YUM craw trailer from now on,.......until next year.....

[ajschn06]

Ooooh those are nice…. No photo but my favorite unique combination I threw together that had success was Dirty Jogs Super Matt Brown with a roadkill rage craw.

[Catt]

1 hour ago, JohnFromLisbon said:

 

I can see why, this thing is all the rage with the fish around here.

 

 

We had a thread a while back where someone asked what kind of bass would you be. Largemouth, Smallmouth, or Spotted Bass. 

 

My answer; caught! ?

[MN Fisher]

Best producer for me in the summer

3/8oz SK Tour Grade Swim Jig                     4" Berkley Pit Boss

Candy Craw                                                 Green Haze

      

[Jigfishn10]

I actually go the other way and don't match trailer to jig. White jig, pink trailer, black jig red trailer, whit jig chartreuse trailer, black jig  pink trailer. These are more baitfish imitations rather than craw.

[JohnFromLisbon]

4 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Best producer for me in the summer

3/8oz SK Tour Grade Swim Jig                     4" Berkley Pit Boss

Candy Craw                                                 Green Haze

      

 

@MN Fisher the first time you mentioned the Pit Boss as a jig trailer I bought a pack and tried it out - I was not expecting the action to be that good!

[JohnFromLisbon]

Here's another one that's worked for me:

 

Brown/Orange Special Dobyns Extreme Football Jig and a 3.75" Watermelon Copper Orange Red Laminate (956) Yamamoto Flappin' Hog

 

 

This a variation of Greg Blanchard's cheater jig (that's the Craw Daddy jig color with a 954 Flappin' Hog) that has worked for me, as you can see from the trophy sized fish on the photo below

 

[Derek1]

6 hours ago, JohnFromLisbon said:

Here's another one that's worked for me:

 

Brown/Orange Special Dobyns Extreme Football Jig and a 3.75" Watermelon Copper Orange Red Laminate (956) Yamamoto Flappin' Hog

 

 

This a variation of Greg Blanchard's cheater jig (that's the Craw Daddy jig color with a 954 Flappin' Hog) that has worked for me, as you can see from the trophy sized fish on the photo below

 

You’re clearly gonna get me in trouble for having jigs and craws all over the table tomorrow 

[Catt]

28 minutes ago, Derek1 said:

You’re clearly gonna get me in trouble for having jigs and craws all over the table tomorrow 

 

What you need an alibi? ?

[RDB]

On 3/12/2022 at 2:16 PM, JohnFromLisbon said:

Now, before you @ me, I know that it matters a lot more to me than to the fish, and that you can pretty much get bit on any jig and trailer combination.

Don’t apologize for your beliefs on the aesthetics of your lures…haters gonna hate.  If it makes you more confident in what you are throwing, I can pretty much guarantee it is positively impacting your success.  I never fish a spy bait and recently decided to tie one on and the whole time I was throwing it, I was thinking about what I should replace it with.

[Bluebasser86]

You're missing out if you've never tried mismatching your jig and trailer ?‍♂️

 

Sometimes, they really like that hard contrast. 

[Bankbeater]

For me the trailer and skirt need to have some contrast, but not too much.  I like a green pumpkin trailer with a watermelon skirt, or a dark brown trailer with a black jig.

[Derek1]

Yup I did it

lightning craw with moon juice 

black blue with blue sapphire 

different black blue with blue swamp water 

Black red with black neon

Green pumpkin black with green pumpkin black

Green pumpkin orange with water melon red

Green pumpkin purple with tequila sunrise 

[Derek1]

Black chartreuse with chartreuse pepper

Sorry about the doubles, that was allot going on.