Football vs Standard Flipping/Pitching Jigs

[RuddyDuck]

What jigs do you guys prefer for fishing deeper water??

I have tried using Skirted Football jigs with zero success and have a little better success with Standard jigs. What benefits does one have over the other for deep water? Any trailers that work better than others with either jig? I fish mostly stained water(1-4ft vis) and seem to have more confidence in a standard jig because it has a rattle. Then again I actually seem to have better luck using a standard texas rigged worm over jigs and that has no rattle. Right now I have zero confidence in a football jig.

Thanks for the help.

[bemidjibasser]

Try a football jig with no skirt...use a skirted twin tail grub like a chompers in 4 or 5 inch. Don't be afraid to really snap it off the bottom and watch your line as it falls back to the bottom, lots of strikes will happen on the fall or it will be heavy when you first pick it up to snap it.

[smalliehunter]

football jigs are more for dragging on the bottom. whenever i am trying to pin point rocks or trying to get a feel for the bottom i use football jigs. "Standard" or a swim jig i use more for "swimming" back to the boat through weeds and such, i use it more for situations where you would chuck a spinnerbait. in my opinion a football jig isnt for popping off the bottom its made to keep contact with the bottom.

[RumRiverRat]

Footballs are for dragging, not much else.

A bare football head with a hula grub, Rage Craw,Ugly Otter, or 4 to 5" tube drug slowly on the bottom is what I would do.

I also tend to cut the weed guard off most of my skirted football heads, usually no need for it. Unless I am fishing shallow rock/rip rap on Pool 2,4 and 5, usually there is wood or brush in the water.

[luckycrank]

the most common method is dragging a rock jig slowly accross the bottom , that being said there are times thats not enough , and popping the jig off the bottom draws strikes like bemidjinbasser suggested , I have evan seen where dragging at a fast rate (just slow enough to maintain contact with bottom) makes the differance between getting bit and not and often requires a heavier jig like a 3/4 - 10z football in 9-10' fow there are really no in correct way to fish it bottom contact is alway the key however