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MFF US Northeast => Maine => Topic started by: Smallmouth Squarepants on Aug 10, 2020, 07:38 AM
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That you bought and either slept on or couldn't figure out, until the one moment it just clicked for you?
For me, it was the Spybait. Glad that I finally went back to it, because it saved my butt this weekend and was basically the only thing I could buy a smallie bite on this weekend.
One that still hasn't dropped for me yet (at least as far as striper fishing) is a standard popper. A pencil or a spook style bait, I can get them, but I can never convince them to hit a true popper in the salt. Slow, fast, erratic, rhythmic, nothing. In fact I get more use with my striper poppers as night lures for largemouth.
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Blade baits for me. Used properly they are highly effective, and I had a few sit for years with no idea how to use them.
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Blade baits for me. Used properly they are highly effective, and I had a few sit for years with no idea how to use them.
I always forget about blade baits until I'm out on the water. They somehow have ended up in my Trout Crank/inline spinner/Small spoon box that I never bring out with me until the fall.
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Honestly, I’ve never caught a fish on a spinner bait, only on the in-line type.
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Bucktails, bucktails, bucktails all sizes did I mention bucktails haha
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Honestly, I’ve never caught a fish on a spinner bait, only on the in-line type.
I have a love-hate relationship with spinnerbaits. I caught my PB largemouth on one when I first really got back into bass fishing (and fishing in general), but never really liked fishing them. I took a couple years off from ever throwing one and just this year started using them again (bought a ton of them from the Dicks B5G5 clearance sales after Christmas), although in two very specific circumstances: 1. Big single Colorado bladed ones at night (slowwwww roll em) and 2. Double willow or Large willow w/ small colorado in a weedy environment with reactive fish (basically when I would use a chatterbait but they are keying in on bigger presentations or the flash is pulling them over the vibration). I haven't tried suspended or ledge fishing with a spinnerbait yet, probably going to pick up some really heavy ones for that if this heat keeps up.
And this is all bass specific, for Pike I never really stopped using them. Just run the weedlines from about every approach angle you can and vary your retreive. Also, I hate throwing any spinnerbait on spinning gear, no matter how beefy. Casting with a faster retrieve reel that still has some torque is the way to go for me at least.
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Bucktails, bucktails, bucktails all sizes did I mention bucktails haha
I just use them like a jerkbait or glide (for striper at least). Jigging them or bottom bouncing has never worked for me!
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Freshwater: swimbaits and drop-shot
Saltwater: tube 'n worm
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I swim them too
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Whopper Plopper
I've thrown one for musky until my arms have just about fallen off. Caught smallmouth on it but have never even had a follow from the intended species that I know of.
The other is Northeast Troller spoons. I can't buy a bump most of the time on them.
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Freshwater: swimbaits and drop-shot
Saltwater: tube 'n worm
Love me some swimbaits of all varieties (paddletail, hollowbody, hard, big). BPS and Cabelas not carrying Keitechs anymore (and KTP never carrying them) is one of the most frustrating things; The BPS paddletails they carry instead are like Dollar Tree version of the Strike King Rage Swimmer, but without saving as much money!
Drop Shot, for me at least, has a time and a place and that is October-April when I'm not using a Jerkbait or crawling a swimbait.
Never done any salty trolling, so I can't say much on TnW.
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Whopper Plopper
I've thrown one for musky until my arms have just about fallen off. Caught smallmouth on it but have never even had a follow from the intended species that I know of.
The other is Northeast Troller spoons. I can't buy a bump most of the time on them.
X2 but for pike. Largemouth destroy them readily.
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Countdown rapalas, had a few rattling around in my box that I used from time to time. But when I started trolling them with my neighbor, started catching lots of trout and walleye, what a great lure.
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X2 but for pike. Largemouth destroy them readily.
Agreed for pike too (and the few times I've gone to target muskie). The only topwater I am ever successful with for pike is a Spook of some kind (and that's usually by-catch of targeting bass).
Speaking of Spook/walking baits, I bought the Molix 110 Baitfish Super Sound from KTP a while back due to it saying it had better drawing power. I have not had a single bite on it yet. This further cements my opinion that walking baits should be silent or have (at least) a Knocker, and that rattles and beads are far inferior (case in point, the KVD Sexy Dawg walks better and has better body roll than a Super Spook, but it gets out caught by the Spook 2 to 1. Switch it to the Sexy Dawg Hard Knock and it beats the Super Spook 3 to 2)
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probably bought a dozen worm harnesses when i was younger, dont ever remember taking one out of the package
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Lipless crankbaits I throw all day. Deep diving crank baits elude me.
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Lipless crankbaits I throw all day. Deep diving crank baits elude me.
Agreed on both counts. As for the DDs, I keep trying them but haven't gone out of my way to pick any more up or to bang my head against the gunwale by throwing it all day when I can't buy a bite with em. I have a XD6 in perch, XD8 in olive shad, and a Hot Lips 25 foot I bought last year at Mardens in some weird blue shad/bow color.
I have no issue with shallow cranks or squarebills either, just the deep divers.
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You need some Pearl DB smelts
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You need some Pearl DB smelts
I rarely ever fish for trout or salmon if I'm not wading/fly fishing, and I troll even less than that, but I'm always down to try something new! Thanks for the rec!
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Agreed on both counts. As for the DDs, I keep trying them but haven't gone out of my way to pick any more up or to bang my head against the gunwale by throwing it all day when I can't buy a bite with em. I have a XD6 in perch, XD8 in olive shad, and a Hot Lips 25 foot I bought last year at Mardens in some weird blue shad/bow color.
I have no issue with shallow cranks or squarebills either, just the deep divers.
Update: Did find a 3XD that I had stuffed in a non-crankbait box. Threw in in a 7-23 ft section of the Kennebec on Saturday. Lotta shorts, one that was 3lb 8oz. I don't know if I would consider it a true deep diver (since it usually only runs 10-12ft), but results are results and might start me reconsidering my feelings towards DDs.
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D B Smelt
The one i had had two holes drilled in an 1/8' on each side just behind gill plate , and when trolling it along it would send out a row of bubbles on each side. it was hot.
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I have quite the collection of DB's. Love them. Like the hole idea.
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The lure had a clear plastic cover. it was where the hole were drilled in the plastic
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Got a pic woodchip?
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Got a pic woodchip?
would like to see that as well, not sure i know what the plastic cover is. was it modified
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I had a clear coating it looked to be thicker than the holes on each side just behind gills the color was under on the metal , also it looked like each scale was notched into the metal it was a hot lure for trout and Salmon for a few years until i lost it and was never able to find another.
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Hmm wonder if you could duplicate it using uv resin.
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.http://www.vintagefishingtackle-uk.com/abulures.htm Not sure if this link is still around.
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Hmm wonder if you could duplicate it using uv resin.
That might be worth trying. Not sure if it would be easier to do a mold and suspend it in partially set resin before covering the top and sealing it (which might lead to week points where it was joined) or just keep adding coats of it and curing it after each one (which might lead to visible layers/distortion, as well as take a LOT longer)?
Tackle craft is so interesting to me and something that I've wanted to get deeper into. Maybe if I actually buy a house/garage at some point, my apartment's second bedroom is already running triple duty as my office, fishing gear storage, and musical instrument/gear storage.
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Just got this in my newest Tackle Warehouse order: https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Keitech_Tungsten_Guard_Spin_Jig/descpage-KGSJ.html
I wish I had read the reviews for it as I figured it would be a little smaller than a Bitsy Bug, not half its size (or smaller). It may come in handy for the annoying habit of Trout picking up my finesse bass jigs and the hook being too stout to fully penetrate (it's a very light wire hook, but seems like strong for its gauge).