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| I was wondering if anyone out there has ever, or still does, troll the old X-4 (X-40?) deep diving flatfish with a nightcrawler on the back hook for walleyes?
I remember doing that with my dad and grandpa as a child and pounding the fish with it. I never see those lures or see it being done anymore and was wondering if any of you have any in-sight or experience with them. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Yup,
Still use them. I have had success on LBDN in spring using them w/ a piece of crawler and an in-line weight. I like the smaller sizes. They sure do give that crawler a seductive wobble. |
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Location: La Crescent, MN | Can you say "Escanaba River?" Yeah I agree those Flatfish work great sometimes.
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| Originally written by Sunshine on 2003-12-05 9:18 AM
Yup,
Still use them. I have had success on LBDN in spring using them w/ a piece of crawler and an in-line weight. I like the smaller sizes. They sure do give that crawler a seductive wobble.
Dennis,
Could you point me to a place I might be able to get a few. I haven't seen the deep divers around here (Twin Cities) for some time, and want to give them a go this spring.
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Sure thought that I bought my last supply at Gander Mountain and/or at bait shop in LBDN but here's a couple of thread:s
http://www.buyfishingstuff.com/flatfish.html
http://fish307.com/fish/WordensFlatFishColorChart.htm |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | my dad was a friend of charlie helin, used to do fly in trips with him. i grew up handlining using flatfish and still do. i took my biggest fish in the detroit river this year on a #7 blue/chrome.
Edited by JAKE 12/5/2003 12:08 PM
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| Jack,
Sportsmen's Warehouse and Fleet Farm have been carrying them in the Twin Cities area.
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | excellent crank. i love useing the very small ones tipped with a crawler. |
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My Grandpa took me trolling out on Lake Winnebago, and he had a tackle box full of them. Along with Flatfish, we also used Ok Dokes and Lazy Ikes.
My favorite was a Lazy Ike colored orange, yellow and chrome. My Grandmother always ran red with black dotted Ok Dokes, and Grandpa used those Flatfish, and he liked black. And those flatfish vibrated so hard the whole boat shook with the pounding the rod took!
One of my favorite Rainbow Trout baits here on Lake Michigan, is the super-sized pearl Flatfish. It is a killer on the trout when the fish are inactive.
Excellent question JLDII. |
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Location: Rhinelander | I use the Flatfish alot in Canada over heavy weeds, crawling it along. Great muti-purpose bait! Pike eat the thing ALOT. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Jack.
One of the very first cranks to be successfully used and take the place of the crawler harness for waleyes back in the late 60's on Manuscong Bay, was the Silver/Blue Tad Polly. As you know they are very similar in both shape and action as the Flatfish.
Then back in 1984 when the very first returning walleyes came back up into the Tittabawassee River, me and my bud both pioneered the techniques and let the river walleye action out of the bag on this river. We caught walleye like crazy trolling slowly up river with the Red Horse colored Tadpolly.
I guess neither were actually Flatfish, but close enough in my book. |
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