The
Million Dollar Bass Bait
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By "The Bass Coach"
Roger Lee Brown
rlbrown@capital.net
There are several patterns you can use with the Jig & Pig combo such as
Flippin’, Pitchin’, and Castin’, and many different techniques you can apply in the presentation when fishing this bait. There are also many different ways to rig a Jig & Pig combo before actually fishing with it.One of the best ways I found when rigging a Jig & Pig combo is to use a 3/8 or 1/2oz. "Flippin’" jig (which is the football type head) that is manufactured with a skirt and weedguard, then I will usually attach a trailer and a rattle (if the rattle don’t already come attached to the jig) to it. This is now my Largemouth bass secret weapon. Now, if you are fishing for Smallmouth or Spotted Bass I just downsize to a 1/4 oz. jig and a smaller version of the same trailer.
The best trailers I found to use with my "Flippin’ Jig" would either be a Gary Yamamoto 4" "Twin Tail" Hula Grub (a fantastic bait just used by itself Texas rigged) or a big plastic "Salt Chunk" (which is just a plastic chunk implanted with salt and two little tails on one end of it.)
Now, before fishing this bait there is another matter of importance you really need to understand, and that is to have the proper equipment and knowing how to use it when fishing this bait. Not only will this bait catch more "quality" bass than smaller ones, but mostly because of the areas that you would fish the bait around and through. In fact, one of my students last season while being taught how use this bait caught nothing smaller than 3 and 4 pound bass the whole time he fished with it! Once in a while you may catch a smaller bass with this bait, but on the average it will catch the bigger ones if you know where to look for them.
Getting back to proper equipment, I use a seven and a half foot telescopic flippin’ stick (rod) with a heavy action, never anything less than 25lb. test (clear or transparent) mono line, and a baitcaster reel with a medium to a fast retrieve speed for fishing a Jig & Pig combo.
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