I fish a jig & trailer A LOT. But i fish it as a casting lure way more than
most fishermen. When the jig & pig first burst into bass fishing
community's collective consciousness, back in 77-78, my first reaction was
that it couldn't really be that much different than just fishing a bulky
plastic bait. But I was soon proved wrong. By 1980, I was probably catching
75 to 80% of my bass on it. I think that creature baits have eclipsed it in
today's world, but I still catch a load of bass on it, and more than half
of them (way more than half, actually) are caught fishing it as a bottom
tracing tool rather than just flipping/pitching it to objects. Its way too
valuable a tool for feeling you way around beyond what you can see to flip
at, to waste it as only a target tool.

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