- 1). Select a jig. The most common jig and pig weight is 3/8 of an ounce, but they range from 1/4 of an ounce to more than 1 ounce. The jig should have a silicone skirt and have fiber strands that extend from the head of the jig to protect the hook.
- 2). Select a pig. In cold weather, many fishermen use a chunk of pork with two trailing appendages that look similar to crayfish claws. Anglers fishing in warm water tend to use plastic trailers. Some choose a plastic trailer that looks similar to a pork trailer. Others choose crayfish-looking plastic trailers, or single or double-tailed grubs.
- 3). Attach a pork pig –– or a piece of plastic designed to look like pork –– to the jig. Insert the hook through the middle of the pork and push it all the way through. The pork should rest in the middle of the bend of the hook.
- 4). Attach a plastic trailer. Thread the point of the hook into the head of the plastic bait and then thread the bait up the shank of the hook. Push the hook point out of the bait once the head of the bait is against the head of the jig, and the bait is straight on the hook.
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