Peanut Butter and Jelly?

[Flying Fish]

I've never even seen this color bait with my own eyes so I'm not sure where to start. Any ideas?

[tater]

all of my cranks this color have a dark purple back, dark brown sides, faded down to a sand color belly. i will usually add a dash of orange on the throat just to give it a little eye catcher. my skirts have a purple/black barbwire strands on the back, a brown almost dark crawdad color section in the middle and smoke colored strands at the bottom. i usually match that with smooth nickel willows epoxied with purple glitter or transparent purple coating to give it a shimmer. play with it a little, im sure you can find a combo you like

[BassSniperLures]

I know the soft plastics I have seen this color have one side almost a junebug purple and the other a pumpkinseed color.

[Senkosam]

I call it my Skippy & Smuckers color.

[Flying Fish]

Thanks for all the input, guys.

Great looking jig trailer, Senkosam! Thanks for posting that.

[dampeoples]

The easy way out would be LC 's peanut Butter color and some purple flake

[David Reid]

I agree, you do some very good and interesting work SS. Is that some blue glitters in the bait?

Do you guys use these on anything other than bass and one or two other freshwater fish? Also how are you fishing these? as topwater baits or what? When I first saw these and chunks initially my gut reaction was almost Heck these bass must be stupid fish if they can be sucked into thinking these are frogs, bait, or swimming food but I know thats not the case and often the reason defies human logic or reason and often it is the skill and technique of the fisherman as much as anything else. Hell for the same reasons people even eat McDonalds. I find these sort of things quite fascinating and am very curious as to how successful they really are and how and why they work?

Sorry to hijack your thread a little bit FF but it seems colours are also to some degree interconnected as well.

[dampeoples]

They're jig trailers

[David Reid]

Thanks Dampeoples. What distance separates them and is there a video/ wmv one can download to see how they are fished. I am out of my depth with them as regards any knowledge of them but curious.

[dampeoples]

Don't have a video, but here is one rigged!

[David Reid]

Thanks thats a good picture. Am a lot wiser but still ignorant as I know nothing much about jig trailers either. Will read up on them. Is the skirt normally premade or do you make these individually? Thanks for your help.

[BassSniperLures]

well i've made a few jigs, they are my absolute favorite bait! The ones I have made I bought the skirt separate. They're kinda cheap to make. I bout it by the foot but i can't remember how much it was, alot cheaper than going to wal-mart and buying a jig though . As much as I fish with em I like to experiment alot with different colors. You'd be amazed at the colors of jigs you catch fish on!

[dampeoples]

Well, the trailer does a few things for a jig, first, it adds bulk, making it appear larger, and slowing the fall, second, it's for looks, the claws sticking out the back resemble a crawfish. Third (and not lastly), it provides action, via the claws flapping about.

I made that jig and trailer, the skirt was in pad form, I combined them in the 'arm' part that acts as a rattle holster. What the pads are basically is a 5.5" piece of silicone that has slits, but is bonded on each end for ease of assembly. On that particaular type of skirt band, I slip it on the nose of a pair of needle nose pliers, then fold the bonded ends of the pad together to place in the band, then pull them through. Once I have the band positioned where I want it, you simply cut the bonded ends, freeing the slit rubber, most have around 20 strands. Skirts also come pre-made, with the band already on them, but if you went as far as making the jig, why limit yourself!

[David Reid]

Do you use them on other fish apart from bass? I note that picture of one has rattles added as well. What about any saltwater fish? I am probably showing my ignorance here but I really need to read up on the subject.

[dampeoples]

I do not use them for anything but Bass fishing, and am unfamiliar with anything saltwater, although I've never seen a huge one, if there was, someone, somewhere, would try it and catch a big one

The rattles are to further enhance the crawfish look/feel. Supposed to imitate a craw scampering about on the rocks, or maybe even it's claws closing. It's also used as an aid in dark/murky water for the fish to find the bait.

[bassn1]

Here's a quick recipe: peanut butter and jelly color

Purple with red flake over MF transparent brown (lots) with gold flake

[Senkosam]

I agree, you do some very good and interesting work SS. Is that some blue glitters in the bait?

Thanks and yes there's blue and purple glitter in MF's brown/grape plastic.

Do you guys use these on anything other than bass and one or two other freshwater fish?

Smallmouth, largemouth and pickerel bite skirted jigs with trailers as well as jigs with blades ---spinnerbaits.

Also how are you fishing these? as topwater baits or what?

Jigs can be worked on bottom or swam past stumps or rocks like a spinnerbait. Pork use to be the only trailer around, but soft plastic has taken over because lurecrafters can tailor make them. The flapper tails do just that - flap when moved, wave when stationary.

When I first saw these and chunks initially my gut reaction was almost Heck these bass must be stupid fish if they can be sucked into thinking these are frogs, bait, or swimming food but I know thats not the case and often the reason defies human logic

Bass are dumber than clams and react the same way when you push their buttons. As far as bass knowing that a jig is any particular prey species, anglers speculate and believe what they will. My thought is that if the lure resembles a fish or a buggy creature, fish are apt to strike it for many reasons that only they experience. The trailer adds a meaty target to a skirted jig on bottom once the skirt flairs out and down.

often it is the skill and technique of the fisherman as much as anything else.

So true. Some anglers are talented jiggers, others get casting practice and don't know much about the many ways to use and work a jig.

am very curious as to how successful they really are and how and why they work?

Like any good and proven lure, jigs/trailers are classic bass lures that work most of the year in many types of water. A must have bait in anyone's boat!

Sorry to hijack your thread a little bit FF but it seems colours are also to some degree interconnected as well.

As to lure colors, this may be of interest and interesting:

http://myfishjournal.com/vbforum/showthread.php?p=565#post565

[David Reid]

SS,Thankyou, you answered quite a few of my questions.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~postcard...in%20water.jpg Must work, this one caught a vase.

http://myfishjournal.com/vbforum/sho...?p=565#post565 Will look at this properly later and digest what you are saying as Fish Vision is something that interests and intrigues me. Am aware that fish like us not only see the 3 primary colours but also like birds see into the IR as well and it is this ability that enables them to see movement and colour from a distance and home in on a bait or source of food. When we understand the wavelength/s different fish see at and at what age/s we will be able to target them better. I remember being absolutely staggered by the distance and height vultures could zero in on a small target on the ground in their ever increasing circles as they ascended up into the sky many years ago out in the desert in Rajasthan. I am sure this ability varies with fish especially pelagic fish.

[Flying Fish]

Sorry to hijack your thread a little bit FF but it seems colours are also to some degree interconnected as well.

No worries, mate.