Vibrating jigs have been around a few years. The Thunder Cricket has taken the world by storm, and it’s been Denny Brauer’s hottest bait the last six months. Why? It catches big fish. There’s something about this bait—the frequency, the vibration, whatever you want to call it. It attracts a lot of fish
Vibrating jigs have been around a few years. The Thunder Cricket has taken the world by storm, and it’s been Denny Brauer’s hottest bait the last six months. Why? It catches big fish. There’s something about this bait—the frequency, the vibration, whatever you want to call it. It attracts a lot of fish
The Thunder Cricket is available in 4 different sizes- 3/8, ½, 5/8 and 3/4 ounces. My favorite size is the ½ ounce. If you’re in an area where you’re fishing super shallow water, maybe the 3/8 ounce will become your favorite. There are some days the fish love the ½ ounce, and other days they like the 5/8 ounce. What’s different about the 5/8 ounce is that it hits a little harder and vibrates more strongly. When the fish are more aggressive, they want that louder vibration.
Day-to-day, the ½ ounce is perfect for me. Especially fishing over hydrilla. The neat thing about this bait is it comes through the grass pretty well. You can feather it through that grass and a lot of times when I get it through a clump of grass, I’ll just let it stop and flutter a little bit and that’s when the fish absolutely load up on it.
There are several different ways to rig it. My favorite way is to take the Rage Menace and put it on behind it as a trailer. I rig it so it’s flat, which helps it plane a little bit. You can turn it another way to make it look like a fish tail behind the blade. That Menace is a tremendous trailer to have behind. If you’re in doubt about a trailer that works perfect, try the Menace. It doesn’t overload the bait. You don’t want to do that with a vibrating jig. You don’t want a trailer that’s too big that could cut down on the vibration. You want it to sit there and vibrate freely.
There are other trailers you can use. The Rage Bug works fine as a trailer behind it, too.
