How-To Select a Jig Trailer: Size, Action, Color

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WB Staff
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How-To Select a Jig Trailer: Size, Action, Color

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The size of the plastic you select as your jig trailer not only determines the profile of the presentation you are putting in front of a bass, but more importantly it determines that rate of fall of your jig.


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Oldschool
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Re: How-To Select a Jig Trailer: Size, Action, Color

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The size or length of a jig trailer is only one factor that affects the rate of fall, the jig weight far exceeds the trailers water resistance when considering ROF. Plastic trailers today differ from yesterday's trailers, the new designs offer far more water resistant features to slow down ROF, Rage tails with the added ridges increases both resistance and appendage flapping speed, both slow the ROF if the jig weight is the same, ie a 1/2 oz jig falls slightly slower with a Rage tail craw than a GYCB twin tail grub the same size.
It always amazes me to hear that pork rind is good only for cold water presentations, the bass doesn't know what a trailer is made of, it only reacts to life like movement....year around.
Pork is messy , dull colors and dries out making it more difficult to use, it still catches bass year around. A 3" or 4" twin tail pork trailer slows the ROF with less fast flapping movement than plastic and appeals to larger size bass. Today's bass anglers are more interested in fishing fast then catching big bass, plastic appeals to those anglers.
Tom
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