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Saturday Trout Magnet victims - 8 lb drum, 1 lb bass, 4 cats, 9 gills and green sunfish, 1 lb drum, lotsa dinky green sunfish - 8 lb drum a 10 minute battle with 9' Sam Heaton rod Shimano Catana 1000 with 4 lb mono.Attachment 374837Attachment 374838Attachment 374839Attachment 374840Attachment 374841Attachment 374842
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9 Gills is the perfect size mess for eating. Catch a pile, keep a few, release the rest and all non targeted species for sure. Danged old Drum and Whisker fish can stay off my TM!
Nice catch on such small jigheads ! Just goes to show ya - many species hit the same lure types much of the time.
Thanks much for showing your catch in picture form. It's instructive in many ways and gives some anglers something to think about and questions to ask when it comes to lures.
Keep at it.
Those trout magnets will get it done some days
This will be my first season using TM's. Looks very promising!
Now THAT’S a variety on one bait. The TM is sure versatile. Thanks for the photos
Bob
This will be year #2 for me using trout magnets, my main bluegill areas are rocky dams and rip rap and I use small floats weighted if necessary. Tipped with a tiny worm chunk or a crappie nibble. Wanting 8" and bigger gills but I end up catching multiple sometimes BIG species. Fish love big rocks - full of tiny green sunfish, crawdads, etc. After this cool spell and the water gets around 70 and warmer and if it dont flood the big gill ketchn should be excellent.Attachment 374870Attachment 374871
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Agreed, congrats!
nice mess..Is that the trout magnet jig or the crappie magnet jig you are using..We use the trout magnet in small ponds and lakes and do really well with them tipped with a crappie nibble..
Trout magnet body with 1/32 sickle jig.Attachment 374882
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Those drum seem to be getting bigger. When I was a kid back in the 50's we caught a lot of small ones on Kentucky Lake. Now I catch them frequently and a 10 lber is not unusual.
Any reason for this?
Alan
looks like all the fish ate it to me …..except for the crappie ?
KABOOM is the word
Gotta love the TM!
I been ketchn drum for years mostly small and sometimes a 2 or 3 pounder, this 8 lb was my biggest ever and I wish it had been a walleye!Quote:
Originally Posted by funfishers
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Crappie were not liking the fluctuating weather temps, caught one a week earlier at the same small lake at 4 PM, it was a male near shore in brush, water temp was 63.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
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Are you sure those aren’t crappie magnets? They look bigger than my trout magnets. Good catch.
They are trout magnet bodies on 1/32 sickle jigs.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
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Nice catch. I've had quite a few 20 pound drum hit the Trout Magnet over the years.
Regards
Had 3 fall victim to Trout Magnets today
That 8 pounder had some endurance, I thought it was a big carp! I cant imagine a 20 lb drum on a light rod/reel! I'm loading up Shimano 500's with S0S 2 lb test - hoping for gills and crappie only!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alphahawk
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Like trying to reel in a freight train.
Yes! I want scrappy panfish on ultralite rigs not Moby Dick!Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
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Drum can get really big . Caught several really big ones over the years ., Biggest I weighed was 23 lbs . A tussle on a jig pole .