jigs: trailers

[coldfront]

everyone will have their preferred.  my standard is a zoom super chunk jr threaded on grub style for a more compact profile.

so in addition to everyone's thoughts, here's my question:  twin tail vs single tail grubs as trailers.
when would you use 'either'?

[Smallie_Stalker]

everyone will have their preferred.  my standard is a zoom super chunk jr threaded on grub style for a more compact profile.

so in addition to everyone's thoughts, here's my question:  twin tail vs single tail grubs as trailers.
when would you use 'either'?

Most of the time I use a single tail if I'm swimming the jig and a double tail for pretty much everything else. I don't know why though. 

[D.W. Verts]

Uncle Josh Pork (amongst about a hundred others). I have things I do with trailers that I'll bet ya'll have never seen, or forgot. Hmmm. Sound familiar?

A 3" or 4" DT is a standard go-to trailer for me, especially on football heads fish DEEEP. And a 2" goes well with a hair jig.

[Oldfart9999]

So Dale, did you do things like trim the fat, split the tails and stuff like that? I use a lot of double tail, and double tail grubs on swim jigs. Next season I'm going to try rage products.
Rodney

[D.W. Verts]

So Dale, did you do things like trim the fat, split the tails and stuff like that? I use a lot of double tail, and double tail grubs on swim jigs. Next season I'm going to try rage products.
Rodney

No Rodney. The last few years of the Pork Frog they were pretty lean. And all that trimming, for more action? Gimme a break.

[loomisguy]

On a finesse jig I use a speed craw and pull a segment or 2 off.. Bigger football heads I like the Zoom super chunk or a twin tail Chompers.

[Eric-Maine]

Menace grub

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[SteveTX]

everyone will have their preferred.  my standard is a zoom super chunk jr threaded on grub style for a more compact profile.

so in addition to everyone's thoughts, here's my question:  twin tail vs single tail grubs as trailers.
when would you use 'either'?

I typically use a craw type look. You know the two appendages behind the bait. So of the choices I'd start twin tail. Although I typically use all kinds of plastics for trailers I find grubs of any kind usually are not on my play list. I do once in a while though use one just trying stuff.

[Wizard]

I use a single tail grub on a swim jig. I've never seen a bait fish with two tails. Zoom Super chunk or a pork frog on everything else.

Wizard

[njpaulc]

Used to love a 4 inch Hales craw worm, break off 3/4 of an inch, thread it onto the jig and the little claws would kick on the way down.  Miss those days.

[Mike Cork]

If it's craw imitations then double tail type biats, if I'm looking to imitate shad or bream then it's single tail grubs. If I have a bottom crawling / bouncing or vertical presentation then generally a twin or double tail trailer. If it's a horizontal or swimming presentation then normally a single tail trailer to include.

Most of my jigs have a Poc It Craw or Buzz Bug on them deppending on season and how aggressive the bass are.

Jig trailers can be so useful. Take a Buzz Bug for example. I can put it on a 1/2 jig and because of the buzz bug action it's like having a parachute on, it falls slowly. Take that same half ounce jig and put a Poc It Craw on it and now it falls like a rock and generates a reaction strike. Same jig with a big fat Twister Grub and it's back to a slow fall but a completely different vibe then the Buzz Bug.

Jigs are fun to play with, lots of options and the bass change their mind regularly.

[rb-nc]

Take a look at Bizz Baits Cutter Craw

[SteveTX]

Take a look at Bizz Baits Cutter Craw

Looks like a ever so slightly modded version of what Doc Irv sells as the Cra Z craw.

[merc1997]

i really do not have a favorite, and change things up a lot and let the bass tell me what they want.

bo

[Smallie_Stalker]

I think I misunderstood CF's original question as I thought it was only about single or twin-tail grubs. 

So to set the record straight () I use a variety of different trailers on jigs depending on what I'm trying to achieve with the fall rate, action, vibration etc.

But I do admit that the twin-tail grub is my favorite for some unknown reason and I can still achieve some of the above variances using twin tails just by changing to a thicker body for instance, or longer tails etc.

[coldfront]

smallie,
I really did intend to get to a discussion of single v twin tails for jigs.

first got interested in the question when years back I was getting more bites using a hula-style grub, but with one tail.  the double tailed versions weren't getting bit as much.  fishing them same way  dragging on bottom.

also curious; would smaller, more compact bait with the one tail appeal more to spots, smallies?

[Deadeye]

Well I don't get to fish for smallies down here, so I couldn't say.

I will say that I use a variety of trailers depending on my mood and style of fishing. I've used a Zoom Ultra-Vibe Chunk for Swimming a Jig. I've used a Zoom Fat Albert for the same thing.

If I'm Flipping I'll use something that mimics a Craw, so it will have a Craw Body and Pinchers, Same if I'm crawling along the bottom. 

Lots of times I'll just experiment with Whatever to see if the Bass like it or not. If they do I'll file it away with the rest of my World File of Almost Useless Knowledge that I store in my brain and pull up every so often.

[Kayankee]

Usually twin tail, almost any strike king, and always matching in color to jig

[saltystick]

Other than the usual trailer shapes (pork frog imitation, Rage Tail grub), a cut down, large Brush Hog works well when pitching or swimming a skirted Arkie jig. Got into some smallie action a few years back and the action was fierce!

[tooboocoo]

On traditional jigs.....#11 pork frog or Mister Twister Double Tails.  On Chatterbaits I use single tailed grubs almost exclusively.

[Kayankee]

Anyone have good success with beaver tails, I like the look but have not tried