Fishing A jig and pig, as most of you know, is a lead headed jig with a rubber skirt and a pork frog trailer. It is a super bait for big bass and is especially good during the colder months.
Most folks now use plastic trailers but the old pork is hard to beat.
To a bass a jig and pig must look like a crawfish, and many of the plastic trailers are made to look exactly like them. This bait has withstood the test of time, being popular for many years. Lots of baits get popular and then get forgotten since they either don't catch many fish or the fish get used to them. That hasn't happened with the jig and pig. Back in the early 1980's this bait got very popular when bass tournaments dropped their limit to 7 and then 5 fish, making competitors concentrate on catching quality fish rather than just large numbers of fish.