Silicone Vs. Rubber Skirt

[RedShad]

I've recently bought three different brands of jigs that I haven't tried them before. Those are made out of rubber skirts and hand-tied.

What is the difference between silicone and rubber?

The rubber skirt jig(specially round rubber skirted jig) seems to fall down a little slower than silicone jig to me. ??

[Rich]

Well howdy RayWill! Haven't seen you around in quite a while. Good to see you!

I haven't seen any real difference between the two, but then I really haven't paid that mich attention to it.

[mblk181]

Silicone, to me, works well for spinnerbaits, but after tying many micro jigs, the jig action is much better with the rubber. On small jigs, the silicone seems a tad less active and therefore isn't as supple as the rubber concerning subtle movements. The rubber, in short, is much livlier and personally preferred.

Hope this helps, Mac

[RedShad]

Reb, thanks for the warm welcome. I have been here all the time. There are better anglers who give good replies here than I do. As you know I am a weekend warrior fisherman, and it is still my the most favorite site.

Mac, how have you been?

I thought something had to be different because many tournament bass fishermen in CA use rubber skirt jigs. They must have some reasons for using these jigs that I don't know yet. Thanks again, Mac.

[purscheallstars]

Ray,

Hi. Good to "hear" from you. Like Mac said

jig action is much better with the rubber

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I prefer the original medium sized living rubber that was standard on jigs/spinnerbaits about 10 years ago. I still have some silicone skirts on spinnerbaits but the majority have living rubber. All my jigs have rubber...it "flairs" more. Silicone skirts have a very weak action. just my .02

[Rob Mak]

i am with mac on this silicone blade skirts and rubber jig skirts are favored-mind ya i still anit caught diddly on a pnj.

zooker

[RedShad]

Welcome back, playhooky. It's good to hear from you, too. Where have you been?

Thank you, zooker.

I will be fishing with these jigs for a while to see any difference for catching.

[Rob Mak]

well anit he just all polite like tonight..


zooker