Your favorite lures?

Between April 25, 2006 and August 31, 2006 my three sons, 9 years old 15 years old and 17 years old, caught 2271 specks. These crappie came from 5 different bodies of water at various depth and locations. The one thing they all had in common was that every last one of them came on a micro shad and a jig. We varied jig weights,colors, and sizes but used strictly 1 1/8 inch micro shad in pink, white, or a black w/silver fleck. It is an incredible combination, and not just for specks. We boated over 800 gills, 30 smallies up to 21 inches, 3 northern pike, and one large carp, all on the jig and micro shad combo. You should be able to find them at any large sporting good store. If you are in the Northern Michigan area stop by Jays Sporting Goods in Clare and look me up in the gun department.
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We have been wadeing alot creeks around my house over the last two years, and we been killin;' em on Joe's Flies. You can get them in several different colors with either a gold or chrome blade, and they have two sizes, one really small one(which we use in the creeks) and bigger one can't rememeber the weigh of it. I got em at Wal-Mart, but come to find out not all Wal-Marts have them! They are basically like a roostertail, but have a smaller hook and also has a really small trebel hook tried on it too. You HAVE GOT to watch out for the those little hooks though!! I have embedded a few of them in my fingers, and they are not fun to dig back out (when you are way down in a creek). Everytime we go in the creeks with these little Joe's Flies, we catch anywhere from 50 to 60 Bass and the same amount of bream, and have caught a few Pike! Now, when we are wading the creeks, we stay in front of the murky water that we stir up as we walk, so we are fishing kind-a-fast paced, and we are still catching all of these fish at the faster pace. It's fun as all get out, and if you've never waded any creeks, you gotta try it at least once. We will go about 1 or 2 miles oneway, and turn around, depending on the creek were in. I bought a 4'6" Wally Marshall Dock Rod, and a Phluger spinning reel, it's perfect for casting under trees, not too long, and it's light. This is also my Crappie rod. It works great for pitching boat houses and such.

I'll see if I can find a picture of the Joe's Flies and post it.

Here is picture of one of the many Joe's Flies. Do a search on the net for Joe's Flies, they have a website with alot of them listed.

Good luck!!

Troling crank baits

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Originally Posted by bonsaiboy123

What are some of your favorite lure(s), and how do you personally fish them? I have been using only live bait lately and want to go to artificial, so tell me some of your favorite lures. It would be a big help. Thanx!!

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One of the most productive methods of catching panfish, is using a jig tipped with a wax worm, under a small float. The most productive times for this, is when they're nesting on the deep cliff ledges of one of our local lakes. Most people use a small, locally made jig called a "Popeye Special" No. 2 size (which is a 1/32oz head with a #6 hook). Or, a similar (and also locally produced) jig, made/sold by another company ... called a "Pop-Eye" jig. Either of them are basically just a hair/feather jig with small hooks/head weight. Either of them are pretty good baits for panfish ... even without the live bait added.
Another good bait for panfish, that works as well on Crappie, too .... is the 1/32oz & 1/16oz Blakemore Roadrunner (marabou version). I usually trim the marabou down to 1/2 of the length between the hook bend and tip of the marabou feathers (as it comes from the package). Then, even the "nippers" take the chance of getting the hook, when they "peck" at it :D

Some of the biggest Bluegill and Warmouth, that I have caught ... came when casting 1/4oz crankbaits for Bass. So, don't rule out hard baits over plastics or tiny jigs & flies.

In-line spinner & safety pin type spinner baits are also productive ... the "Rooster Tail" and "Beetlespin" brands come to mind.

...... luck2ya ... cp :cool:

Hair Jig - You can't beat a Yellow and White Popeye. Yellow is effective in sun and shade. I like to float and fly them with a tipped minnow.

Soft Bait - Road Runner, and any hot pink tube.

Hard Bait - Strike King Bitsy Minnow, Chartreuse and Blue

My Favorite - "The Minnow"

Its all good...;)

Im with birddog, but i would add waxwoms either under a float by themselves
or on a black jig with a chartruse head, 1/80 size.

john b.

I've had pretty good luck with the tiny gitzit jigs. I have to second that small inline spinners are good. You will catch bluegill that nip at the bait since the they'll be nipping at the hooks.

My luck goes up exponentially when I tip the jig with some bait. I'll use shrimp sometimes. The berkley honey worms work well too.

i like to use a variety of small grubs - especially a white curl tail- but one lure that I can really fill the live well with, in respect to bluegill is a very small crank bait. This mainly works in the summer time.

Rebel makes some pretty small crank that bluegills will hit with a passion. Also Yo-zuri makes some dandy little cranks called snap-beans.

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they come two per package in two sizes and are 1 inch and 3/4 inch lengths. Fantastic.

Hey Yall, My all favorite lure: It looks like real bait,it smells like real bait,it acts and swims like real bait, but best of all it produce's better than any jig
ever made because it is real bait [ minners ].
Why spend money on a jigs that is suppose to look like a real...:rolleyes:
This is my most humble 35 year fishing experience opion...but everybody's got one of course. :D


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