I've caught desent fish on both baits. But I would have to say that my more
quality fish have been on the "jig 'n pig".
When you feel the tap with a jig,you know 9 outa 10 times it's a Bass. With
plastic,well,ya just never know!!

"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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I'm with ya there Chris, I actually started fishing Jig seriously two
years ago as a result of some un serious fun. Me and fellow ROFB had a bet
that the loser would shave his head. Well needless to say Dave lost that
bet
the first year and I lost last year, for fun I started tying jigs with his
hair and vice versa. We started fishing them and were amazed at the size
of
some of the fish that we were catching. I went back through my box looking
for some jigs and came across some old ones that I bought but never really
used. BINGO!! started getting more fish. I now keep a dozen or two jigs in
my tackle. All different types, Jig and craws seems to work great as a
swimming jig while smaller minnow heads with plastic tails work great in
stump fields. One of my favorite is the BPS minnow heads matched with the
tail of a zoom ultravibe speed worm. I don't know If I neccesarily catch
bigger fish with jigs compared to soft plastics, but either way they will
remain packed and ready to fish.


I have the same feeling for crankbaits and carolina rigs, never really
caught much on them, but rest assured they are ready to go this year,
being
able to adapt to conditions when fishing will probably catch you more
fish.
It's the learning to adapt thing I gotta get down, and from what I
understand it takes some people a lifetime to do





"gwilber" wrote in message
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Chris:
I have had the same experience except my situation is a little
different. About 4 years ago I met the guy that makes "the worm" which
is one of those pre-rigged swimming worms. He gave me a bunch and said
it would help my wife and son to get on fish easier. They sat in my
boat for a year before I tried one. I had a tournament mentality that
the bait wasn't for real fishermen. I started to catch a lot of fish on
them although not a great size in general. Then last year I tried
swimming a jig the same way I was doing with that worm. I didn't get
as many bites but the fish were larger in general. The first day of
the Northwoods Classic all my keeper fish in Boom came from swimming a
jig. This year I plan on doing it even more. So I think both have
there place. You can go through an area with a worm and then go back
through with a jig and catch a few more and probably larger fish. On
slow days I think a worm will give you more bites but normally I let
the fish tell me what they want on any given day. I'm glad you got
your boat and the water is finally open here in Wisconsin. The ice is
just coming off of Shawano and I hope to get out this weekend.