Soft plastics for northerns

[mrcrowley138]

What is everyone's choice when it comes to jigging soft plastics for northerns (curly tail grubs, swim shads, paddle tails, etc.)? I'm looking to add this to my arsenal this year and was wondering if anyone had some suggestions as to what has worked for them. Also, when using soft plastics for pike how would you work them (weightless, on a jig, Texas rigged)? What types of jigs and what sizes are good for this application as well? Any advice at all would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[badfish]

Not really a jig or fished jigging but I personally love the sluggo for fishing northerns in summer. Mostly texas rigged and weightless up in the shallows along the reeds and lily pads. As far as jigs I have had luck on just a regular bass jig with a curly tail trailer...I like the color blue with darker blue flakes. And as far as size goes its pretty much all depending on the situation like how much cover do I have to punch through or how deep or if I want a nice slow fall...etc...

[delmuts]

i like to use jigs designed for muskies; just cause they come with bigger hooks than most bass jigs, in weights of 1/2 to 1 1/4 oz. i tip these with a grub or a shad body.

[Random guy]

Super Size all of these

Sluggos

Salt Shakers

Sizmic Toads

Tiger Tubes

Mr Twister Super Shad

Manns Paddle tails

Reaper Tails

Slowy Tails

Basically I use Jmac jigs or Stick-Um Jigs from Thorne Bros to work these plastics.

[Steve Foss]

I rig my plastics on jigs, too. Only exception is sometimes casting sluggos plain rigged for early shallow fish.

I'll be experimenting with some of the Gulp stuff this summer, but I haven't been very particular with which brand of plastic used. I just basically buy whichever is least expensive in the color/size twister tail I want for the jig.

Most often when jigging the deeper breaks and structure for big summer pike I'm tipping the jig (generally a larger bucktail jig with stinger) wit a 6-inch sucker anyway.

[prov1900]

5" Kalins Grubs, either Texas rigged (weeds) or jig head. They can be cast/retrieved or vertical jigged. Lot of action in their tails.

[Neighbor_guy]

I tip a good sized bass jig like a Nland Jungle jig with a 6" kallins grub alot. I like this set up. Swim it fast, jig it deep, it can be used in a lot of different set ups.

I also like slug-go's and fin-s-fish rigged weightless and workded in and around weeds.