Okay, so I always going to ask, you know, and you always hear it, "Caught my fish on a jig; caught my fish on the jig." Maybe jigging a pig, jigging something else; but there's, that's such a vague and and wide range term 'cause there's so many variations of a jig and you can use it so many different ways. So what we're going to through; we'll go through, you know, five or six year presentations; different jigs, different types of base to be use with the jigs. But your standard one; when you hear a guy saying as, as using a jig is you're going to get something like this. So your standard jig, when you hear people talking a jig is they're using a skirted jig. This is a silicone skirted jig. This one right here is a football head and about a three quarter ounce and it's, it's really good use for open water, sandy bottoms; some place where you're dragging the bait and you're doing a lot more dragging. You're not really casting into brush or anything. And what a football jig will do is when you're, you're moving the bait and you pull it on a line tie, it actually makes the bait roll up as it goes up and so if you're trying to imitate a crawdad, it will roll up and, and go up and come down. And the other good thing about football head jig is it doesn't roll and, and lie down on his side. So when you put your trailer on here, it'll generally always stay in that position especially as your football gets a little bit bigger. But you can see that it's shape just like a football; it keeps it from rolling on its side and keeps it, keeps the hook pointed up. What we're going to here real quick with this football jig is we're going to put a trailer and you'll hear, hear the term that says, "I was using a, a pig and jig", or, or some kind of trailer which a pig would be a, approach on. What we're using today, and you generally always want to put a trailer on this; this is, this type of bait; this is what they're use for. What we're using today, this is a Yamamoto flappin hog; looks very similar to a crawdad, it's very compact, it's made to go on a jig, those small size bait; it's got a lot of appendages out here; it's very heavy and a lot of action on this bait when it's swimming through the water; you know, like to crawls, flipping up and, and, and like on a crawdad. So what you want to do when you put a trailer on a jig; most of your jigs are going to have a little barb on the keeper, something like that, it help pull that bait. So you want to kind of look and see about how far back you're going to run the hook. So this one we're going to come back about half way in the body; we'll run it down the center. Most of the baits are; if you have some two-tone color baits, I generally always put the lighter side of the bait down. So this would be the down side; the hook side will be the up side. So, if say this is a black and white type trailer or brown and creme; you put the brown side up and the white side down. So we've got it about half way through the body; you run it up; cross it up against tight onto that keeper and next to the silicone, on the skirt, pull it out and when you're, you're fishing it you're going to get a very compact, a bigger bulkier bait and when you cast this bait; even though it's heavy and it's big and it's bulky, it has a very slow presentation. It floats really good with the bait when it, when it hop's down; a lot of action. The skirt moving all over the, the appendages on the, on the flap and hog going all over the place; very big bait to be used with big fish and in the spring especially when the fish around a, a pre-spam bite and they're, they're trying to eat just about anything that moves.
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