Pork trailers

[pauliten02]

I recently ordered "pork" trailers from tacklewarehouse. My friend swears by them. Apparently the pork is attached to the jig just as you would attach a trailer. Has anyone had luck trying these trailers? I don't see why they wouldn't work. . . . Paul

[Bob La Londe]

I have heard some anglers will thread them onto the hook like a grub or other thin body trailer, but most I have seen put the hook through the pork trailers. This causes the legs to kick up and spread more as it falls... like a craw. You may find that even with quality sharp hooks they can be pretty hard to poke through. Some guys I know pre-punch their pork trailers with an awl and a hammer before heading out on the water.

[pauliten02]

I'll deninately give it a try and report back. Thanks for the awl tip.

[gary]

the few times that i have used them (with success) fishing for basss, i had to poke holes through them first. it seemed to dull the hook and i missed the hook up. but i'm a catfisherman, what do i know about bass fishing.
gary

[RocketShip]

I use pork trailers almost exclusively most of the time. Especially in colder water because the plastic ones tend get stiff in colder water whereas pork remains limp and the action doesn't diminsh nearly as much. Pork trailers are also much more durable. The benefit of plastic trailers is there are a ton more color choices. It is relatively difficult to color a piece of pork rind to detail level that plastic can be. Jig fishing is one of my most relied upon techniques and I have good success with pork trailers. I also think that bass will hold onto them a bit longer because they have a natural "food" taste to them as opposed to plastic. Pork holds scent really well too, especially if it is the oil based kind. The downfalls are they relatively hard to work with. You have to find the pre-punched hole on it to get it on your hook and you have turn it about 90 degrees to either side in order for the barb to slide back through that hole. They will also dry up if you don't keep them wet so if you decide to change tactics and set your jig down for a while you have to take that pork trailer off and put it back in the jar. If not you will have a tough dried on mess that takes a good, sharp pair of wire cutters to get off.

[Greg G]

Everything that Rocketship said. I haven't been using jigs as much lately but I like pork trailers enough that I have about 20 jars of them on hand.

Greg

[Preferred Bass]

Does anyone use plastic pork trailers?

Kevin

[RocketShip]

I'm gonna take the stance that weren't joking here and are serious with your question. That means one of two things. 1.) They have come out with some kind of pork/plastic hybrid material for trailers that I am not aware of, or 2.) you did not read the prior posts completely.

There are plastic trailers and there are pork trailers. Both have similar shapes and multiple sizes. They have different applications as outlined in a previous post of mine. If there is a plastic/pork hybrid trailer out there, I have yet to see it.

[Bob La Londe]

Kevin is a plastics manufacturer, and I think he was curious from a professional side about whther or not it would be worth adding a line of pork chunk style plastic trailers to his line. (Sorry if I over stepped my bounds there Kevin.)

[canoeman]

With as much flipping and jigging as people do around these parts, I'm suprised everyone isn't putting some pig on their jig. As for me, a jig just looks naked without a little Uncle Josh's on the back.

[Bob La Londe]

When I flip a jig I usually prefer a plastic grub or craw trailer myself.