there is a local lake that is teaming with them. I usually use nightcrawlers on the bottom with a float (I know it's not very fancy LOL), but I need some lure recommendations.
thanks for the help!
flymoron
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there is a local lake that is teaming with them. I usually use nightcrawlers on the bottom with a float (I know it's not very fancy LOL), but I need some lure recommendations.
thanks for the help!
flymoron
If you’re a real “fly moron”, I know a guy who used to kill the big ‘crackers with small scud imitations.
I use dark green and brown to black tiny jigs and slow crawl them on the bottom. Bobby garlands Itty Bitty slab slayer in iced tea with lemon has also done good. If the bottom is snaggy I would try them as deep as possible under a float. I throw a 1/32 or less and work it as slow as I can stand.
I just tie a 1/48oz. Small jig in dark colors, mainly browns, tan, put a little orange on it, and put it under a float, but mostly if a worm won’t catch ‘em you in bad shape, good luck.
Mr Twister Micro Craw with a nibble, or a small hair jig tipped with a red wiggled account for 90% of the big crackers I catch. Trout magnet is strong third place.
I use a Ken's bluegill bug sometimes tipped with a piece of worm. Slow crawled under a bobber or on a dropshot. Makes them mad or they seem mad anyway.
Bison colored Trout Magnet.
Regards
I used a black jighead with a section of nightcrawler, big enough to cover the #4 hook, either drifting over an area, or under a float when fishing from the bank.
Here's a video showing what Guide Jim Doom uses down on Barkley Lake ... (check the jig at about 1min 20secs into the video) :
Redear and Bluegill on Lake Barkley - YouTube
These look a lot like the bug I use.Quote:
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1/32 ROAD RUNNER (BLACK PREFERED) WITH ONE INCH BLACK SLIDER GRUB .
Where do u get one of those black jigs with rubber legs?Quote:
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Thanks
Not sure.Quote:
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But you could look at the small Beetle Spin grubs or the Southern Pro Bream Bug for a close representative. Maybe even a "cut down" of the Bobby Garland Mayfly, or possibly Panfish Plastics Chigger Fry :dono
I did some "modifying" of my own, back several years ago, on some cheap plastics I had accumulated .... just to see if I could do it. Their original intent was for use on Crappie, but never got around to using them.
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Legs are made from rubber bands and the tinsel tail of some off brand tube jig.
:hesaidI was using a few of these today, things were slow at the creek and figured something small might work. Caught a few using them. Have had success on gills in the past also. I did same as crappiepappy, can also use skirt material for legs.Attachment 434674Quote:
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Small lures catch everything and especially many soft plastics rigged on light ballhead jigs. The casting distance may not be as far as when using a float, but the jig+plastic weight still casts out to 30-40'. Covering water is most important but making sure the slowest retrieve possible keeps the lure in the zone long enough to work those fish senses. The lures in the posts above are all capable of getting strikes due to their subtle actions that fish attack with gusto! The lure actions I refer to are many and ones you might want to make note of when choosing lures. Here are a few:
Waddle
A piece of a plastic worm attached to a 1/24 or 1/32 oz jig, when twitched with the rod tip has a waddle & dart action. This one was made by attaching a part of one lure to a small grub body:
https://i.imgur.com/HEXNsvW.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Rs1huct.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NLYmvpQ.jpg?1
Quiver tails quiver and flutter even on the slowest retrieves. These wacky rigged lures have tails that quiver like crazy when your rod tip imparts the action:
https://i.imgur.com/2a7Jv1Z.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dKvK1TH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aITzxnQ.jpg?2 https://i.imgur.com/AZSg6ru.jpg?1
Many lures sold have those very thin tails certain to provoke strikes. As suggested in the previous post, a small bit of silicone skirt pull through the body has the same quiver.
The Crappie Magnet and Trout Magnet double tails are classic fish catchers. The action is unique and in a class of its own:
https://i.imgur.com/lIG6QGO.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/cTw88El.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/3Yl3eP7.jpg?1
A curl tail flapping like a flag in the wind is felt by the lateral line and equates to a slap-in-the-face to a panfish:
https://i.imgur.com/ACVXC4C.jpg https://i.imgur.com/78oblkg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BDE9EvU.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/fowoFCO.jpg?1
Thin straight tails also have a nice subtle quiver:
https://i.imgur.com/hZLjw43.png https://i.imgur.com/sg9O4Ii.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/vEAUILT.jpg?1
The Joker tri-tail also has a unique quiver:
https://i.imgur.com/ZAse2JO.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/Vq5mAJc.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/4zT9DjK.jpg
The point I'm trying to make is not that you should look for any of the specific lures above, but note the large number of lure actions in everyone's plus my post that catch fish all year round and most species of fish at that! Color is a personal choice based on fish caught. No one can say one color is superior to another whereas color brightness may enhance a lure's action visually thereby adding to the unnatural contrast underwater that fish respond to when using lures.
These are my "Go To" Red Ear Lures. I spray Slab Sauce on them and go catch my supper.Quote:
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Mike
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don't fish for them often , but when I do , its with a jig that has some orange in it and is small .
I get mine at Ken's in Lake City, KY. But Wally world has some similar in the fishing section. The legs on the Walmart ones are a little to long for my liking so I cut them down.Quote:
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