Where is your tail?

[worminken]

On a grub. Do you turn your tail with the bend of the hook? Or opposite the bend of the hook?

[DRFISHDUCK]

I go opposite of the bend. I think it looks better and I catch crappie etc.

[worminken]

Thank you

[hugastump]

I usually have the curve with the hook , no reason behind it .

[worminken]

I usually have the curve with the hook , no reason behind it .

Okay. Now I have 2 choices. Thank you

[doggone]

Pull the lure beside the boat and also just drop it on a slack line and watch it while it drops. Hopefully you have enough visibility to see the lure 2 to three ft deep. Which ever way it swims best is the way you want to rig it. If it works the same either way then it does not matter. Also some tails will have a tendency to wrap back on the hook or even get impaled on the hook some...if one way or the other keeps that from happening then you might consider that. You want your tail to swim good on the fall.If your really on the fish and they are active if your jig looks good you are gonna git bit on the fall half the time or more some days.

You never want a "dead" tail on a curly in the water....fish don't like that.

[worminken]

Thanks for the info

[CrappiePappy]

Hook pointing up --- curly tail pointing down -- tends to keep the tail from getting stuck by the hook (especially when casting).

[huntinslabs]

^^^this

[glasseyes]

As someone already said , hooking tail on jig opposite keeps tail from getting stuck on hook, I do this because I sometime use different size hook in my jigs that I make and depending on way fish are hitting sometimes use a larger size . I've always hooked tail opposite and never even considered hooking it same side.
Also consider this, if you like using crappie nibbles or minnow tipped on after putting on the tail, you would HAVE to hook tail on opposite in order to add bait.