Hair Jigs

[Nkybassfisherman]

How many of you all use em? When do you do best with them? Pork trailer or no?

[backwater4]

Early, early spring, until the spawn. No trailer most times, occasionally a piece of straight tail worm cut off. All black 99.9% of the time. Light line (6 lb fouro) Drops adjacent to spawning flats, sometimes on the flats themselves.

[zip pow]

Black short hair jigs with a long blue bunch of hair in the middle I use them all summer pitching docks hairs long enuff looks like a pork chunk so no need for trailer of any kind

[Hooligan]

I use several varieties. I tie a jig with craft fur that works really well for smallies and spots on southern reservoirs early in the year. I fish a couple different silicone hair jigs, and will be using Northstar's a lot more. I sometimes fish them with a trailer like the tiny Paca chunk or a single tail grub, but most often fish them bare.

[Chris W]

I use them year round. In the late fall, early spring and winter I use a pork trailer usually and Uncle Josh U2 split tail. When the water is over about 55 degrees I switch to plastic, either a zoom twin tail or creepy crawler or a swimming chunk. These are one of the best smallmouth baits I have ever used.

[tholmes]

I use bucktail jigs that I tie myself. I use 'em year 'round for both largemouth and smallmouth, from 1/8 oz. to 1/2 oz. in black, brown, olive, and combinations of those colors. If I use a trailer at all, it's usually the tail end of a torn-up worm.

Tom

[J Francho]

1. Yes.

2. Water Temps below 60°.

3. No trailer.

[Al Wolbach]

I fish them year round from 1/4oz to 1.5oz. In winter or cold water I use very small plastic chunks on lighter jigs. In summer I reverse this, normally. Pork may be better at times but is a pita so I don't use it. I tie my jigs with bucktail hair...............Al

[OkobojiEagle]

Al... I sometimes use shaved rabbit pelts cut similarly shaped as a Zoom skinny chunk with my bucktail jigs to be fished on the bottom. More action than plastic; less mess than pork. They hold scent well if that's important to you.

oe

[Jig Man]

I use them instead of grubs all fall and winter.

[Al Wolbach]

Al... I sometimes use shaved rabbit pelts cut similarly shaped as a Zoom skinny chunk with my bucktail jigs to be fished on the bottom. More action than plastic; less mess than pork. They hold scent well if that's important to you.

oe

Thanks oe, I tried a couple of rabbit hair jigs 10 or 15 years ago that I bought somewhere and really liked them but a good source for rabbit fur is not easy to find. At least not ready to use fur. The jigs I used were not shaved. They included the hair but it was dyed.

I'm not a big believer in scents when I'm using soft plastic. Plastic now has enough scent molded in that a fish will swim away with a jig/chunk and hold it long enough for me to wake up and set the hook. It may help but the mess is not worth it to me. Many disagree, whatever floats your boat. Thanks again.

Sorry I did not mean to steal the thread.

[OkobojiEagle]

Al... I do fish rabbit hair jigs I tie, but the shaved pelt is only a trailer I thread onto a bucktail jig in place of a plastic or pork trailer.

oe

[J Francho]

I use bunny strips too, but mainly as a leech imitator for northerns. As a trailer? That has me thinking...

[Al Wolbach]

Al... I do fish rabbit hair jigs I tie, but the shaved pelt is only a trailer I thread onto a bucktail jig in place of a plastic or pork trailer.

oe

OE, thanks for the info. Do you have a local source for the rabbit pelts? I would really like to try them again.............Al

Again Sorry for stealing the thread.....

[OkobojiEagle]

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[Colton Neal]

Use them in cold water. The way the skirt swims and glides seems to trigger the bass and matches their mood.

Scent and subtle action is important in cold water so i'd go with a uncle josh pork trailer.