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I don't know man I'd choose a bag of GYCB Kreatures, or Zoom Baby Brush Hogs, or Yum Wooly Hawgtails over these anyday. But I never fished it so I can't truly say how good/bad theyll work. As for how to fish it I'd use it as a flipping bait, and peg it with a bullet weight and flip right into the heavy cover, kinda hop it around a bit like any ol plastic. The other way I'd try fishing it is casting it onto the thick muck and slowly twitching it along the top of that muck. I had amazing results doing that with a Yum Wooly Hawgtail. Good Luck

I'll probably be throwing Hard/Soft Jerkbaits, Lipless Crankbaits, and Jigs.

Hey, just got back from a good day of fishing at the local pond, went out for about an hour and caught 8-10 black crappie and a nice 18 inch grass carp. All were caught using a yellow Trout Magnet. I have two questions though. First is what are some good artificial baits this time of the year for black crappie. Take into consideration the crappie im catching are pretty small, and there are very few good size crappie in this pond, so small baits are prefered. My second question is, is it normal to catch a carp on a bait like a Trout Magnet? Or did I get lucky because it was yellow and he thought it was a peice of corn or something? By the way, man you shoulda seen that fight the carp gave, I was using a 5foot 6inch ultralight setup with 4lb mono. Absolutely beautiful fight, he kept making long runs and everytime I got him close he would power up again and the fight would start all over. It was great, thats why I ask if this is normal for a carp to take a Trout Magnet, cause if it is I'll target them with these baits.

Alright thanks.

For my flipping/heavier Jigs (anything from 3/16-3/8ounce) I like to have a decent amount of strands and be fairly bulky. Although with my finesse Jigs (1/16ounce-1/8ounce) I like to be less bulky and a little less strands.

I went out the past two days because I just couldn't take it any longer, and I threw Trout Magnets and small crappie jigs. The pond isn't frozen yet and I caught 8-10 crappie and a 18 1/2inch carp on saturday, today was slow though, me and my friend went out and got about 4 crappie all together and one small bass about 4inches tops. The crappie are fun though and im going to keep trying for them until it freezes over. By the way im fishing off the bank at a small pond, so try your luck with small crappie jigs, or trout magnets and see what you get, its better then sitting at home unpatiently waiting for spring. It just feels great to finally hook up with something again, especially that carp! ;D

Yeah I usually use straight worms for bedding bass, don't know they just like the straight worms for me when there on the nest. Best being GYCB Kut-Tail 5inch, Roboworm, and Gulp 6inch Nightcrawler (you have to examine the pack to see if they are fairly soft, and seem good, alot come too hard, or even too soft, gotta find a good pack). But I also recently bought a Mattlures Ultimate Bluegill so I plan to give that a shot.

Hey, just got back from a good day of fishing at the local pond, went out for about an hour and caught 8-10 black crappie and a nice 18 inch grass carp. All were caught using a yellow Trout Magnet. I have two questions though. First is what are some good artificial baits this time of the year for black crappie. Take into consideration the crappie im catching are pretty small, and there are very few good size crappie in this pond, so small baits are prefered. My second question is, is it normal to catch a carp on a bait like a Trout Magnet? Or did I get lucky because it was yellow and he thought it was a peice of corn or something? By the way, man you shoulda seen that fight the carp gave, I was using a 5foot 6inch ultralight setup with 4lb mono. Absolutely beautiful fight, he kept making long runs and everytime I got him close he would power up again and the fight would start all over. It was great, thats why I ask if this is normal for a carp to take a Trout Magnet, cause if it is I'll target them with these baits.

Hey, I fish this long river that holds alot of small bass 80% of these bass are 1lbers or smaller and they go crazy for small Jigs. But I love to have fun and catch them because you can usually catch 12-16 a trip. Anyways the bottom of this river is all big/small rocks with an occasional sunken stickpile. Ive been fishing it with flipping jigs but they seem to get caught up in the rocks alot and I lose a decent amount of Jigs. Ive heard Football Head Jigs don't get caught up in the rocks as easily but Im looking for small ones, particularly light also. The only problem is every Football Jig I look at is 1/4ounce+, do you guys know where I can find Football Jigs lighter then this? Anything from 1/16ounce - 5/16 ounce would be good. Any websites you know of, or any products you know of that are this light and are Football Jigs?

Can't go wrong with the Stanley Ribbits. Best soft plastic frog I have fished so far and Ive tryed Zoom Horny Toads, Gambler Cane Toads, Sizmic Toads, and the Yum Buzzfrogs. Stanley Ribbit has the best action and gets me the most strikes out of all of them.

Hmm I'll list 10 baits worth getting that aren't too expensive. 1. GYCB Fat Ika (softbait) 2. Zoom Baby Brush Hog (softbait) 3. Yum Wooly Hawgtail (softbait) 4. Booyah Spinnerbaits 5. Booyah Baby Boo Jigs 6. Strikeking Bitsty Bug Jigs 7. Storm Chug Bug (Hardbait topwater) 8. Rapala Suspending Husky Jerk (Hard jerkbait) 9. Booyah Buzzbait 10. Stanley Ribbit (Soft plastic frog) These are all fairly unexpensive and work great... atleast for me.

Can't go wrong with a chug bug or a spook. IMO you don't need that real expensive stuff when it comes to topwater, as the cheaper lures seem to produce just as well for me. For buzzbaits try Booyah Buzzbaits, Cavitrons don't kick up enough water and are too slow for my liking. Also you probably have a few already, but if you don't buy a few Jitterbugs, solid black for night, and bluegill pattern or frog pattern for day.

Man that would be the best Xmas gift I could ever receive..... well a boat would be nice.... but the fish is cheaper ;D.

Soft Plastics *Everything is listed no particular order* 1. GYCB 5inch Kut-Tail (Greenpumpkin, Cinnamon Brown) 2. 4-5inch Senkos/Yum Dingers/Waveworms (Greenpumpkin, Cinnamon Brown, Black/blue, Watermelonred, Watermelon Gold w/blk flk, Watermelon, Black, White, Red Shad, and 2 colors that are strictly Waveworms: Sweet Potatoe Pie, and Pumpkin Orange I think its called) 3. GYCB Kreature (Black/blue flk, Greenpumpkin, Watermelonred) 4. Zoom Baby Brush Hog (Greenpumpkin, Watermelonred, Black/blue) 5. Sweet Beavers (California 420, Hematoma "which is basiclly black/blue") 6. GYCB Fat Ika (Greepumpkin, Black/blue flk, Watermelon seed) 7. Zoom Super Flukes (Baby Bass, Pearl White, Albino) 8. Zoom U-Tail Worm ( Junebug, Pumpkinseed, Pumpkinseed Chart) 9. Berkley Powerworm 4-7 1/2inch ( Watermelon seed, Greenpumpkin, Camo, Red Shad, Pumpkinseed, Motor Oil, Black, Tequila Sunrise) 10. Yum Wooly Hawgtail (Greenpumpkin, Watermelonred) Jigs 1. Booyah Baby boo 3/16-5/16 ounce (Black/Blue, Watermelonred, Peanut Butter Jelly, Greenpumpkin) 2. Terminator Finesse Jig (Black/blue, Greenpumpkin) 3. Strikeking Bitsy Bug 1/16 ounce - 1/4 ounce (Black/blue, Greenpumpkin, Black) 4. Terminator Pro's Top Secret Jig 1/4 ounce (Black/blue, Greenpumpkin) Jig Trailers 1. Yum Chunk 2.75 - 3.5 inch (Black/blue flk, Greenpumpkin, Watermelonred, Bluefleck) 2. Zoom Super Chunk (Black/blue, Greenpumpkin) 3. Netbait Paca Chunk (Black/blue, Watermelonred, Greenpumpkin) 4. Strike King Rage Tail Chunk (Black/blue flk, Greenpumpkin) 5. GYCB Hulagrub (Black/blue flk, Greenpumpkin) 6. Powerbait Chigger Craw cut in half (Black/blue flk, Greenpumpkin) 7. Powerbait 4inch Single Tail Grub works well on white jigs for swimming/fishing a jig a little faster as a baitfish imitation (White, Pearl/blue flk) There is ALWAYS something to buy when it comes to new baits ;D.

I currently use Booyah Spinnerbaits and they work pretty well for me but they do bend after a decent fish, you just bend em back into shape and there good to go again. Although I haven't tryed Terminator Spinnerbaits yet and Ive heard tons of good things about them, so Im probably going to buy one of them next time I see them. But yeah, for the mean time I use Booyahs.

Hmm what frog are you using? With Yum Buzzfrogs and Zoom Horny Toads it happened to me fairly often. Although I now use Stanley Ribbits rigged with a 4/0 EWG Gamakatsu hook, and 95% of the time the hook will ride right side up for me. Yes occasionally the hook rides on the bottom, but like I said about 95% of the time it runs true. Also I don't really think it makes a difference or atleast with the ribbit. It looks pretty much the same on each side, so when the hook is riding on the bottom, I don't know if it really makes a difference on whether the fish is going to strike or not, I don't know if it effects the hook up ratio though. I hear everyone talk so great about the Zoom Horny Toad but I can't get that frog to work well for the life of me. Im rigging it with a 4/0 - 5/0 EWG Gamakatsu but it will ride with the hook down about 50% of the time. And the feet just don't seem to give off any action for me, I have to reel them pretty darn quickly to get them to start kicking right. I don't know maybe I got a bad bag of them or something, though there not bent or anything like that, they look normal. This frog just never works correctly for me so I rarely fish Horny Toads if ever.

I use their small Mister Twister Single Tail Grubs on a jighead for fluke with a killie or spearing on there too. There not the best of quality but they have good action and get the job done, and fluke often bite the tail or rip it up after a few fish so you want the cheap stuff. Basic point there great for saltwater purposes but I definetly wouldn't use em for bassin. Also if you buy the real tiny ones they work pretty well on sunnies.

I fish different soft plastics in different situations. Senkos are IMO the easiest soft plastic you can fish, cause like the commercial says "you don't work them, they work for you" which is pretty much a 100% true. A senko I'll choose if im fishing rivers, or open waters/docks, now you can throw any bait in cover with success but ill choose the senko if im fishing open water or rivers. The Fat Ika I pretty much fish in the same areas as I would the senko. You fish the senko by casting it out and letting it slowly fall on slack line, and watch for any line twitches, when it hits the bottom I'll let it sit for anywhere from 2-6 secs and then I'll bring it up off the bottom and then let it slowly fall and repeat, I'll fish them weightless with a EWG Gamakatsu 2/0 hook for 4inch senkos, and 3/0 hook for 5inch. I fish all stick bait type worms the same way. I also fish the Fat ika the same way but I rig it backwards on a 4/0 hook (skirt up). Fat ikas also make great flipping baits for the thick cover. Good colors for these imo are black, watermelonred, watermelon, greenpumpkin, browns, black/blue. (and sometimes a white senko will work well) Creature baits I fish in heavier cover, I often peg them with a small bullet weight and flip them into the thick cover, or flip them into the toughest of stickpiles. I'll let them fall to the bottom when they initially hit the water and I'll let them sit for 2-6 secs, then I'll start walking them on the bottom with slight twitches and crawling them over sunken timber, if that doesn't work I'll try fishing them same way as a senko but I'll keep varying the speed to see what the fish wants. Another thing you can do with Creature baits is rig them weightless and fish them this way in the back of rivers or in open water, although I find they work best around cover. You can also rig them weightless and crawl them over the top of thick weed mats twitching them all the way in to shore like you would a hollow frog, but the advantage to them is you can let them fall into the small open pockets in the weed mats (that always gets em). I'll also fish these with EWG Gamakatsu hooks size 2/0 for 4inch creature baits, 3/0 to 4/0 for anything 5inch+ or depending on the thickness, I'll use 4/0's on a GYCB Kreature. Good colors for these are greenpumpkin, watermelonred, junebug, black/blue, and shades of purple mixed in with green such as greenpumpkin candy, watermelon candy etc. For Curly tail worms, well these pretty much work in every situation. I'll t-rig them unpegged with the smallest bullet weight I can get away with if im going to fish small bits of cover or open water, if im flipping them into the thick cover I'll peg them with a slightly heavier bullet weight but still fairly small (as long as its just heavy enough to break through the weeds). I'll do everything from from cast them out and crawl them on the bottom with constant pauses, to bounce them with a slight swimming type retreive, to fishing them like a senko. Crawling a bait through the sticks is always good. I'll use EWG Gamakatsu 2/0 hooks for the 4-5 inch curly tail worms, and 3/0 for the 6-7 1/2inch curly tail worms, I use these smaller type hooks with these worms cause there often very skinny and easy for the bass to suck up. Good colors for these are Greenpumpkin, Watermelonred, Watermelon, Natural Browns, Blacks, Junebug, Red Shad, Motor Oil, (can't go wrong with greenpumpkin or natural browns, but I'll often use black in dark water). Softjerk baits (plastic minnow immitators), I'll fish in waters with aggressive fish, these work best for me around spring/fall. I'll fish them with quick jerks, and pauses every so often letting the bait slowly fall like a injured minnow. If nothing grabs it on the fall I'll just repeat the process. Also if the fish seem to be hitting on the top, I'll jerk it pretty quick, so it darts on top, this is often deadly and works pretty darn good for me. Dart these through lillypads, or around/through stick piles the fish just can't resist them, especially pickerel, but they work great for bass too. You can also put them on a spinnerbait or a buzzbait as a trailer. I'll fish these with Gamakatsu offset round bend hooks, size 2/0 for 4inch 3/0-4/0 for 5-6inch. Colors that work well with these are natural whites, chartrueses, white/black, white on green, golds, or different shades of green. There are many other softbaits but these are the ones im most experienced in so im not going to talk about the others. Hope these tips help ya some, softbaits work great, so im sure you'll be catchin fish with them in no time. Good luck .

Ive fished the Zoom Horny Toad the Gambler Cane Toad the Yum Buzzfrog and the Uncle Josh Sizmic Toad, and the Stanley Ribbit has the best action IMO, and catches the most fish for me. I rig it with a 4/0 EWG Gamakatsu Hook. And I'll fish it around small patches of weeds/stick piles/lillypads or any cover for that matter. The only time I don't use it is over thick weed mats as the thick weed mats screw up the action and sometimes get stuck on the frog. If theres thick weed mats I'll use hollow body frogs. For colors you can't go wrong with Watermelon or Watermelonred, or greenpumpkin, but if you have a real dark overcast day or if its starting to get dark I'll often use a solid black. I use the standard size ribbit, I have a pack of the bigger ones but haven't given them a shot yet. When the fish hits though just like you wait a few secs with the hollow frog, wait a few secs with the strike on the ribbit. I'll reel up the slack wait a good 2 seconds and set the hook. Like many others said, braid is a good choice in line for fishing any frogs may it be hollow or soft plastic. The braid cuts through the weeds better and gives you a better solid hook set. I fish this frog with a steady very slow retreive, just fast enough to keep it on the top and keep its legs moving but I'll go as slow as I can possibly get away with going. I'll usually take a few casts with a faster retreive because sometimes the fish like to chase the bait, but 80% of the time im fishing it pretty slow. Also it is a good idea to bring a second pole rigged with a creature bait (thats what I usually use, GYCB Kreature, Zoom Brush Hog, YUM Wooly Hawgtail), or a t-rigged worm. And when you miss a strike immediately cast to the same spot with the creature bait or t-rigged worm. Ive also heard if you let the frog sink after a missed strike the bass will eat it thinking they injured it, but I haven't tryed this technique yet so can't tell you much about it.

That is another thing, Brokejew is exactly right, they lack strands, even on mine, the whole left side of the jig has strands and the right side is strandless. I tryed repositioning the strands to "balance it out" but to no avail, it is still always lacking on one side or the other. The Jigs that worked best for me so far are Booyahs, as they seem to have beautiful skirts and sharp hooks, 2nd being Terminator jigs as the skirts are also beautiful and again the hooks are sharp (I especially love their finesse jig). And Ive also done fairly well with Strikeking Bitsy Bugs, they aren't the best of quality, but the skirts are equal pretty much on all sides, and the weed guard isn't too thick its just right, they might not be top notch jigs, but they catch me fish, good to throw with no fear since they are so cheap. I just bought some Tru-Tungsten jigs though which look beautiful, skirt is nice, hook is extremely sharp and the weedguard is nice too, maybe a little thick for my liking but nothing a trim can't handle. The only thing Ive noticed about them is there isn't a holder on the hook to hold the trailers in place, such as majority of jigs have, so I don't know how well there going to hold the trailers, just will have to wait and find out, but thats about the only flaw to them.

Hmm don't really fish big baits and by big I mean anything over 5-7inches for Largemouth so I couldn't tell ya there. But for Fluke this saying definetly is true, big bait = big Fluke.

Nice, thanks alot guys, good to know my little bass can eat em ;D.

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Don't like em, I bought a pack and one of the jigs didnt stand up right, the other one was fine, but for the money I expect 100% performance.

So no one knows if 2-3lbers can take this lure?