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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | After the onslaught of many different brands of plastics in many shapes, impregnated and not, colors, tails, fuzz and so on and so on..... I bet everyone here has tried many different kinds. I know that I myself have given them the royal shake down this past summer. Soooooooo, here is what I am asking. Tell us a brand and style of plastics you used, and how you rigged it, and why you enjoyed success on it. I don't care what you caught, it can be walleyes, or anything else you have had success with.
White Bass, in the wolf, light jig head and berkley gulp in the small tub of fluid. Cast up stream and let it slowly drop as it drifts down stream. Man, they eat it and you get 10-12 off each one. Saves on minnows and when they are really biting, well, you will catch all you want as fast as you can. These will outfish live bait, day in and out.
Walleyes, I still have not found a wolf river combo that I can say that will out fish anything else. The best has been a sassy shad, or a coiled up berkley leech. Both rigged on a fairly heavy jig to control the action being imparted by the rod. When you spring him, it uncoils like a snake and wiggles around. I think thats why both work on walleyes, the movement that it does all by itself.
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| Boy dont tell that to the walleyes on Pool 4. I guess ringworms, K Grubs,paddletails and Gulp are all really good for me, that and a 3/16th oz jig from either Everts or Hutch's tackle are a awsome tool. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Gulp and hutchie 5/16 oz jig (gold or silver glitter). Bass pro shops hand pored drop shot worm in dark colors on a northland gold live eye jig. Either one has been a good one for me.
I spent the months of october and november on the river meat free using the two rigs above (and an occassional ring worm). Big Jims Bait shop is plenty pissed. |
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Location: LaCrosse, WI | I don't have a lot of confidence in plastics as a search tool, but I love using them when I find fish. A lot of guys on pools 3-7 absolutely smack the eyes year round with plastics, but that's kind of their thing. We all have our favorites, mine just happens to be casting cranks on wing dams.
That being said, I've had pretty good success with the Yum twister tails. They always seemed to out perform the regular unscented twisters. I have had some success on ring worms, but not nearly to the level of the folks up north. |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | IMHO, each body of water is different. That said, I have generally had more successful using plastic on bodies of water with a lot current or when I can impart a lot of action into the plastic.
I have not found plastic to be of much use on the wolf for walleye, but then again, I haven't really tried it very often because of the amount of boat traffic most days. |
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Location: Chicago IL. | WOW This can open a whole can of (rubber) worms. For me alot depends on the time of year for what I use. 19 plano boxes of plastics is in my arsonal. Its a worst addiction than cranks!!!!!! I hate buying live bait, but somedays it is all that works. Usally ringworms,k grubs are a bait of choice, but this year swimbaits have had there moments. |
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| I'm all done with the gulp alive buckets.. just too messy... I'll get the leechs in the bag...
Caught alot of walleyes this fall in a river on a pumpkin/chart Smallie beaver, 1/8 jig head... just bounced down the current... summer walleyes were caught on the St lawrence on a red drop shot worm real deep...
Oneida lake... catch more on a watermelon spidergrub...
My #1 year round lure is a Zoom Smoke fat albert grub... doesn't have all the bells and whistles like other walleye tackle, but fills the pan... |
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Location: Appleton wi | Plastics have a long history on the winnabgo chain going back 35years or more and the no#1 plastic over the years have been mr twisters. There were being used before any other plastic were around! Pink or pinkish/orange jig head with either white or cheese yellow twister in single or double tails. They were never scented and worked great back then and still do to this day but from everyone post they have been long forgotten or overlooked by the younger crowds. In the summer green or black grub bodies with hairs work awsome in the weeds.I have tried the newer stuff but its messy and if they leak they destroy anything they touch with a terrible body odor smell! and they catch percentage is lower for me with the new stuff. JMHO |
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| good point jayman, long live the minnow, half crawler, and crankbait, oh and the crawler harness! |
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| Eyelunker, A mister what? Do they even have a TV commercial?
Seriously, anyone that knows me, knows I have an arsenal of plastic. I love pitching plastic. The whole key to it, is having confidence in what you're using. And I agree, the simple Mr. Twister is still a killer bait on many waters.
What the hell is a wooley bugger? |
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Location: LaCrosse, WI | Wooly Buggers are what comes out of your nose when you've been working in dust all day. |
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| Oh, a wooley booger! |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | C'mon guys! Everyone knows the Banjo Minnow is the cream of the crop! |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | honestly, it does not surprise me Rich, it never ceases to amaze me what come out of you. |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Wooley booger is from drywall dust......nasty. It wasnt a banjo minno rich, it was a crank....HA! |
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Location: Chicago IL. | HAHAHAHAHA I`m suprised you guys dont know what a wooley bugger is. Heck we use them all the time. Awsome on a trotline!!! Rich ,did it come out head first???? |
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| Gulp! It really does outfish live bait. Not everytime, but enough to make me a beleiver. |
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| iceman35 - 12/17/2008 7:55 AM
I'm all done with the gulp alive buckets.. just too messy... I'll get the leechs in the bag...
Go to WallyWorld and get some containers made by "Snapware".
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| For Me, Northlands Mimmic Minnow - Perch color is the top producer. A close second would be a Lindy Max Gap jig, with a fuzzy Grub body - tipped with a GULP! 5" Green Pumpkin Leech. C-man |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | really a fuzzy grub body with the leech. Nice. Big article on the ringworm in the FLW magazine this month.
Pretty good content this month. Hutch Tackle Ring Worm.....mmmmm.......mmmmm......mmmm |
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| I've found that the Gulp nightcrawlers work as well as the real thing on harnesses on Lake Erie. Much more durable, easier to rig, no pesky bite-offs from perch or sheephead. |
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| I did pretty good on the Wolf this spring with a 5/16 green jig and a watermelon color tube bait. I started using 1/2 a night crawler on this and then just used the tube on a jig by its self and caught all the walleyes I wanted. Worked all spring long and into the summer months. |
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