Whatever Happened To… Jig 'N' Pig
NO ONE EVER called it a jig-and-pig. For anyone in the know, clearly enunciating that middle word just wasn’t done.
Instead, the term was jig ‘n’ pig, a comfortable, casual contraction that rolled off the tongue of every bass fisherman no matter where they called home. It was a perfect, slangy fit to flippin’, pitchin’ and every other technique in an era when the apostrophe was king.
In the last decades of the 20th century, heady days of growth and discovery for bass fishing, it would have been difficult to overstate the cultural impact of the jig ‘n’ pig. Everyone used them. Every single one of us. It was a lure woven into the very fabric of bass fishing just as surely as
