Have you ever owned a pair of comfortable shoes? A pair you could wear all day and feel assured they would get you through the day with ease. Uncle Josh has taken the old pork jig and turned into a comfortable pair of shoes.

I am by no means a super pork jig fisherman. I always had trouble getting the pork trailer on and off the hook. Often I would impale the hook into my finger struggling to thread the pork trailer onto the jig. The end of the day would find me rolling around the boat deck trying to separate the trailer from the pork jig. After a few attempts, I would give up and cut the pork off the hook.

Uncle Josh has changed that with their new pork jig with the FASTCLIP system. A wire clip holds the pork in place, makes the adding and removing of the trailer very easy, and keeps the pork from interfering with the hook set. With a ‘why didn’t I think of that’ design, the new pork jig will put pork trailers back into your tackle box.

The FASTCLIP works great on plastic trailers, too. A large hook can wear a hole or tear a plastic trailer easily. The plastic trailer stayed in place through heavy cover. However, I prefer using a pork trailer on the new pork jig because it stays on the bait all day. This saves time and money by eliminating the need to constantly adding a plastic trailer. Uncle Josh produces many different colors and styles of pork that you are sure to find a favorite.          

Although the pork jigs come with many choices of skirts, the skirt can by changed to your favorite skirt with no difficulty. Like most anglers, I have become accustomed to a favorite color skirt. At first glance, I thought I would not be able to remove the skirt. However, the skirt snaked on and off the pork jig quickly.

Pork jig comes in three styles to match most fishing situation. A round head is on the finesse pork jig made by Uncle Josh. The hook is a light wire model made for light line and finesse situations. A flipping head uses a stronger hook and an eye positions to slide over cover. The weed head is a narrow head matched with a strong hook. The design of the weed head slips through patches of weed and grass as it searches for bass. With weights ranging from 1/8 to 1/2, the many styles of pork jigs by Uncle Josh will fish any water from coast to coast.

The pork jigs performed well from Venice, Louisiana to my local waters near Madisonville, Louisiana. Every pork trailer went back into the jar at the end of the day. No sore fingers, cut pork trailers, or missed fish due to a fouled hook point. Uncle Josh has added new pork colors. Green pumpkin, watermelon/red flake, June bug, root beer, and peacock pork increase the number of possible combinations. The new pork jig by Uncle Josh is a great as a comfortable pair of shoes but not as hard to find.

Visit Uncle Josh at www.unclejosh.com to see the wide selections of new skirt and pork colors along with the past performers. The site has photos of the weed and flipping heads, too.

Uncle Josh Bait Company
525 Jefferson Street
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-1824
Toll Free 1-866-BIG-BASS

Jeff Bruhl is a member of the Louisiana Outdoors Writer Association, pro angler, and a pharmacist. His website, www.marshbass.com, covers freshwater fishing across Louisiana and the gulf coast. Each Saturday morning between 5-7 am CST, a bass fishing report can be heard on the Outdoors with Don Dubuc Radio Show (www.dontheoutdoorsguy.com) on 870 AM from the New Orleans station. Jeff has made numerous television and radio appearances on shows like Paradise Louisiana, The Big Fish, and ABC26.com. From tips on youtube.com to weekly reports on his website, his articles and reports provide tips and tactics for bass anglers in the sportsman paradise. Jeff’s sponsors include Abu Garcia, Xpoint hooks, Bud Light, Louisiana Fish Fry Products, Power Pole, Stanley Jigs and Spinnerbaits, Skeeter, Dockside Marine, Rat-L-Trap, and Berkley. For more information about fishing in Louisiana, drop Jeff an email at jeff@marshbass.com.