Sizmic Toad as a jig trailers...questions about Jig trailers and thick cover

[RandyFish]

As my pig and jig learning curve continues, I have a question about thick cover and jig trailers.

The main reason I wanted to learn jigging was to break through foil..but I am noticing that the "craw style" plastic trailers do hang up on weeds.

Do you mid-summer jig fans switch to a less bulky trailer...like a twister tail grub or something ... to help a jig bust through a canopy?

For the person who asked about sizmic toads a while back...I had very good luck with them skipping them weightless in the shallows like a fluke....quite a cool bait, no weeding up and they drop quickly when you stop reeling. I would think they would work like a charm for docks, particularly when frogs become common and the fish start coveting them as lunch.

I am also beginning to use them a jig trailer...those tails at the end of the toads give off a tight vibration when swimming a jig back to the boat.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Randy-

This is just my opinion. However, when I am fishing the thick stuff, I switch from a Jig and Pig to a flipping tube. I usually use the Exude Salatube, but any 5" tube would probably work. I use a Tungsten sinker(1/2 oz or even bigger depending on how thick the weeds are) and I am sure to peg the sinker. So that it gets threw the cover better.

Jigs are not always the best for punching threw cover.

[buzzin for bass]

Deitz-

When you use the large tubes to punch through cover do you peg the weight up tight to the tube? Also, I assume that when fishing this way you are casting to high potential spots and then maybe shaking the bait a bit, not trying to drag the tube through the weeds (vertical vs. horizontal)?

[Deitz Dittrich]

Buzz- you are 100% correct. Peg the sinker tight tot he lure for sure... and cast to spots you feel will hold a fish. Shake it in place and then flip/pitch to the next spot.