Skirted jigs
Big fish per cast, better than almost anything else you can tie on.
What it is
A weighted head, a weed guard, a silicone or living rubber skirt, and a trailer. Head style is the fork in the road. Flipping jigs have a pointed head and a heavy guard for cover. Football jigs stay upright on rock. Swim jigs have a thin head for coming through grass. Finesse jigs downsize the whole package.
When to throw one
Any time you want a bigger than average fish. The jig gets fewer bites than a soft plastic and a better class of bite. Cold water, dirty water, heavy cover, and pretty much any month of the year.
How to fish it
Pitch to a target, let it fall on a controlled line, then hop it once or twice. Or swim it steadily through grass on a swim head. The trailer choice changes the fall rate, so a bulky craw slows it and a thin chunk speeds it up.
Gear that matters
Heavy line, a stout rod, and a good hookset. The weed guard that lets you fish cover is the same weed guard you have to drive a hook past.
Buying jigs without buying trailers. A jig without a trailer is half a lure.
Skirted jigs by the numbers
- Families in the catalog
- 160
- Individual variants
- 1,501
- Brands represented
- 62
- Weight range
- 0.016 oz to 24 oz
- Length range
- 0.2 in to 5 in
- Most stocked color families
- Red Craw, Green Pumpkin, Black and Blue
A family is a product line. A variant is one color and size of it, which is the level the app actually reasons about.
What the shelves carry
Shelf availability, not a recommendation. Which color is right depends on the day, and that is the part the app works out.
Skirted jigs with the deepest color runs
The families carrying the most individual variants in the catalog. Breadth of stock, not a ranking of which one catches more fish.
What a web page cannot know
Everything above is true of skirted jigs everywhere, in every month, for every angler. That is exactly the problem with it. Cobia answers the narrower question.
Those four lines need a location, a clock and your actual tackle box. No website has any of them.
Skirted jigs questions people actually ask
A weighted head, a weed guard, a silicone or living rubber skirt, and a trailer. Head style is the fork in the road. Flipping jigs have a pointed head and a heavy guard for cover. Football jigs stay upright on rock. Swim jigs have a thin head for coming through grass. Finesse jigs downsize the whole package.
Any time you want a bigger than average fish. The jig gets fewer bites than a soft plastic and a better class of bite. Cold water, dirty water, heavy cover, and pretty much any month of the year.
Pitch to a target, let it fall on a controlled line, then hop it once or twice. Or swim it steadily through grass on a swim head. The trailer choice changes the fall rate, so a bulky craw slows it and a thin chunk speeds it up.
Buying jigs without buying trailers. A jig without a trailer is half a lure.
Know which skirted jig to tie on
Scan your receipts, build your box once, and Cobia ranks what you already own against the water in front of you.
Android coming soon
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Setup takes about a minute.