What trailers do you recommend for a 1/4oz or 3/8oz Sixth Sense Swim Jig?
What trailers do you recommend for a 1/4oz or 3/8oz Sixth Sense Swim Jig?
3.8” BPS Speed Shad, Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper, Yum Pulse, Gary Yamamoto 4” Zako, BPS 4.5” Sassy Sally are my normal trailers for swimming in open water over vegetation, or throwing in/through pads and grass. If I’m going to yo-yo the lure much I use a 3.5-4” twin tail grub style trailer.
2006 Triton SP-185, 2006 Evinrude Etec 90, PowerTech NRS3, Garmin Echomap Plus 73CV & 93SV
Grub or Z-Craw Jr for me. I like a BBB 5" "Finesse Grub" or Zoom Fat Albert, which is the same size as the BBB despite being listed as only 3" .
I've stuck a Keitech or Little Dipper on them before and caught fish, but never felt like it was any better than the grub or craw trailer. For the cost it's an easy choice for me.
2011 Skeeter ZX225
225 Yamaha HPDI Series 2
Minn Kota Ultrex 112 52"
Console: HDS 16 Carbon
Bow: HDS 12 Carbon, Solix 12 G2, Mega 360, Garmin 106 SV, LVS 34
Z Craw Jr. in a color that matches the jig.
"The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it…He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chessboard.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
RI little dipper or Z craw Jr.
I always have swimjigs rigged with a 3.8" Keitech, a Little Dipper and a Baby Rage Craw close at hand.
2013 Ranger Z520c, 2013 Yamaha 250 SHO
2018 Ranger RT198p, 2013 Mercury 150 Optimax
I like a strike King menace myself.
Keitech 3.8" Fat Impact or a Damiki anchovy minnow.
Allen
Zoom Fat Albert grub, Zoom Z Craw Jr (used to use a speed craw but like the Zcraw better) 3.8” speed shad or fat impact
Which way on z craw jr, vertical or horizontal?
swim bait
Zoom UV Speed Craw
Bruiser Baits Evil Twin
I rig mine horizontal.Originally Posted by scotty34
"The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it…He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chessboard.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Grass Pig
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This is my choice also
Can't wait to try the RI Spicy Beaver on a swim jig. Looks like it will have a killer action.
Yes.
I've experimented with both and caught a lot of fish with it both ways. I like to think with it vertical it looks more like a bluegill and with it horizontal maybe a fleeing crawfish, but that's giving the fish too much credit. Realistically, the biggest consequence is altering how deep it runs. Horizontal you get a lot more lift and so it runs shallower and/or you can work it slower. Vertical it sinks quicker. Try different things to see what's working on a given day!
On a similar note, something I've mentioned before but that's maybe worth mentioning again: You can dramatically alter how deep a swim jig (and to a lesser degree, a spinnerbait) runs by changing the orientation of the trailer, particularly with grubs and boot-tail swimbaits. If you put it on with the tip facing down, the swimming action pushes the jig up in the water column. If you rig it with the tip facing up, the swimming action pushes the bait deeper. You can alter how deep the same exact swim jig will run for given retrieve speed by as much as a couple feet just by putting the trailer on one way or the other. It sounds crazy until you try it! It can be extremely useful when fishing different times of the year or different lakes/conditions so as not to have to have as many "in between" jig sizes if that makes sense.
2011 Skeeter ZX225
225 Yamaha HPDI Series 2
Minn Kota Ultrex 112 52"
Console: HDS 16 Carbon
Bow: HDS 12 Carbon, Solix 12 G2, Mega 360, Garmin 106 SV, LVS 34
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