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Anyone use these weights? If so, how'd they perform for you? I've been looking for a bullet weight that will effectively work out for pegging, and this is something I came across. So, are they my answer to pegging? They won't slide? Seems to me like they might appear to be "unstraight" when rigged up... but maybes its all in my head. Please let me know, thanks.

I chose the sammy because I've caught some nice fish on it, but the spook is definetly 2nd. Its good to see one of the cheapest if not the cheapest lure in the bunch to be voted most effective. Just goes to show you, price is not everything.

99% of my bass fishing is done from banks in small local ponds. I have alot more productive baits then just 3, so asking me to name 3, is very difficult, although I'll give it a shot. 1. Jigs (only if theres some sort of cover) (Preferably booyah baby boo 5/16oz, or 5/16 oz eakins jig. 2. Frogs (preferably Original Scumfrog or Bobbys Perfect Frog. And for softplastic frogs; Stanley ribbits) 3. Spinnerbaits (preferably Terminator 1/4 oz or Booyah 1/4 oz)

Hey, I could really use some help here. Thing is I am pretty new to crankbaits, that being said, I don't know the "hot colors" used with these lures, such as black/blue and greens with jigs, and greenpumpkin or junebug with soft plastics. I was told to make an order of the lures I want tonight, and need help with some color choices. The crankbaits I am mainly concerned about are Lucky Craft Fat BDS cranks(http://www.***.com/descpageHDCLUCKY-LCFATBD.html#), I am looking for a good muddy/overcast color, and a good clearwater/sunny/lightly stained color. Please give me some recommendations, I was going to buy a firetiger pattern, but the BDS doesn't seem to have that color. Please give me some suggestions! I also will be buying a few other brand shallow cranks, so if theres any "hot colors" for crankbaits, let me know em. Thanks again guys, really appreciate any help.

x2 I carried my senkos all year, but caught only a hand full on them. Last year they were a hot bait like said before, but I think they became used to seeing them all the time. I think bass have a memory and can distinguish fake from real after they have been caught a few times. It's like sticking a penny in a light socket when we were 5.....you did it once out of curiosity, then probably didn't do it again. I beleive it's the same with bass. I carried my senkos all year, but caught only a hand full on them. Last year they were a hot bait like said before, but I think they became used to seeing them all the time. I think bass have a memory and can distinguish fake from real after they have been caught a few times. It's like sticking a penny in a light socket when we were 5.....you did it once out of curiosity, then probably didn't do it again. I beleive it's the same with bass.

I've done ok with them, I use them when the main forage is minnows and various other baitfish. Although I don't fish them nearly as slow as I do with green, brown, or black/blue jigs. I let them hit the bottom, and sit for about 2-3secs, then hop, then wait 2secs, then hop. I definetly fish them quicker then craws, simply because baitfish move quicker then craws. But yes, they will work. But I only choose them when I feel the fish's primary forage is baitfish.

I like finesse jigs with the 2.75inch yum trailer. Paca chunks kick too much, and so do ragetails, although any other time of the year I love those 2 trailers. But, when its cold, the yum trailers do the trick for me.

Yeah, I use that box too, works beautifully.

Yeah tackle boxes are outdated.. , especially for bass fishing. Get yourself some planos, and a good tackle bag to store them in.

Crappy hooks should be outlawed! There should be a sharpness test the company has to pass for their hooks, if its not as sharp as a gammy, its prohibited. Wouldn't that be great..

Here is the link to the chugbug: http://www.***.com/descpageHDTSTORM-SRCB.html

I don't see why they would be better then any other popper, I wouldn't waste the money. If your going to pay top dollar, your better of buying a high quality crankbait, or jerkbait. A Popper is a popper.

Bobby Perfect Frog is a nice frog, but my all time favorite for best hook up ratio's would be the original scumfrog. All in all, there both great frogs. I would stay away from spro frogs, as I have had a few take in water on me, a few too hard to get a good hookset, and all of them I've bought I couldn't get a good hook-up ratio with.

Yeah great striper baits for fishing the surf, I can sure tell you that. I prefer them over the storm swimshads any day. The tail is alot thicker/stronger, unlike the flimsy storm swimshads, making the tsunami swimshads tail swim alot nicer. I also find the tsunami swimshads to ride a little nicer in a straighter position, while the storm swimshads tend to have a unnatural swim, where the head of the bait kinda swims downwards. I can't tell you how well they work for freshwater bass simply because I've never tryed any of the pre-rigged "swimshad" style baits for freshwater bass. But I can tell you this. I was once fishing at one of my local spots, and seen a guy casting around a pre-rigged swimshad style bait, I forget which brand it was, might of been a storm, and I watched him catch a few bass on it. So, I know they have the ability to catch fish, hope that gives you some confidence, but I personally have never tryed them freshwater.

First off I wasn't 100% sure where this topic would fit, so forgive me if its posted in the wrong area. Now then, I am looking for a fast drying glue that I can use primarily in saltwater. This is what I plan to do. When I fluke fish I like to use gulp swimming mullet, rigged on jigheads. Only problem is they tend to get expensive, and a common problem you have, is after a few fish, and a few good hooksets the bait starts to slide off the jighead "holder" when you cast. Making that cast, pretty much useless. So I want a glue I can use, to glue the gulp to the holder of the jighead. I also have one more question for you. After I glue the bait on, and lets say the bait gets torn in half. Can I manage to rip the bait off the jighead, along with the glue remains, so the jighead is still good to use? Thanks for any help/recommendations.

I have tryed fishing it like a jig but a little quicker, and have yet to have any luck fishing it this way. I still try it when I am fishing this bait because I don't see why it shouldn't work. All of my fish that I have caught off the chatterbait have came on a constant retrieve. I typically prefer a spinnerbait over a chatterbait in the day, but I will always choose a black/blue chatterbait at night over any spinnerbait.

Ok Wisturkeyhunter and SuskyDude, lets pretend they were taking bass. This way you can feel as if your in my shoes. I understand carp are an invasive species, but this lake is packed with them and thats about all thats in there. They are fairly easy to catch in this lake and you can have alot of fun hookin into some monsters in less then 10mins. On to my point, lets pretend they were bass, and these guys were comin to the lake you fish every other day, catching their limit and leaving. Days go by and they tell their friends to come, and now theres a good 10 of em fishing the lake every other day, taking their limit in largemouth. Now that you understand how I am feeling, and are in my shoes, what would you do? :

The ocean around Bradley Beach, so basiclly the whole ocean stretch along ocean avenue, avon jetti, brinley ave jetti, etc.

Well I've been crowding up another forum I use specificly for striper with "how-to" posts on fishing a variety of different baits, and I don't feel like posting another "how-to" question on there atleast for today . So Im counting on my fellow BR guys to help me out. Here is what Im dying to know. I recently bought 2 new lures in which I plan to fish from the surf. The first lure is a 7inch Fin-S. I searched google, and haven't found much on it other then how to fish it for largemouth. I want to know the best ways to fish this bait for striper, as I often hear about it being a commonly effective softbait for this species. Reading the package it tells me to rig it on a jighead, or to rig it "weedless" like you would a senko, just with a bigger hook (obviously). My question though is for the guys who have fished this bait before for striper, and that is; what is the most effective way you fish this bait while in the surf? Im thinking of jigging it about, as it seems like it wouldn't have much of a swimming action due to the forked tail and all. Please give me some info on fishing this bait. The 2nd lure I bought and want to have an idea on how to fish is the berkley pre-rigged eel. Do you just swim this bait with a slow retrieve? Or is there something more to it? Never fished a soft plastic eel so I am pretty clueless in this subject. Thanks for any help, as always Im greatly appreciative. And to all you guys who give reviews on baits on cabelas.com or basspro.com please be more specific!! I foolishly go to that site and read the reviews time and time again and hear the same darn responses; "its a great bait!, caught me alot of fish" or "this bait is amazing!", or "outfished my buddy with this one". Yeah, well thats great to know jack!, but tell me how you work the darn thing, a freshwater bass jig is a great bait too, but if you throw it out there trailerless and bring it in with a fast retrieve your probably not going to do so hot. Be more specific! Darn reviewers..

Oh, how foolish I feel.. :-[. I just read your post a second time RPS, and realized your fishing on a lake for them... Well I can't give you much help there, but atleast now you know how to fish for them if you make any trips to the beach ;D.

After reading my response to your question, I have realized I did not give all the info I wished to give, even though my response does seem like more then enough information..let me explain. I commonly read responses to my questions where guys will recommend certain plugs/softbaits but thats all they'll do, just give a name of a plug. Now thats great and all, but if I go out and purchase this lure how effective can I truly be with it, if I am clueless on how to fish it. So, I will now explain the common and proven effective ways on fishing the plugs I've recommended. The first and 2nd lure I recommended were bombers. This lure is quite easy to fish. All you have to do, is cast it out, and slowly retrieve it. You can add a slight jerk here and there, but I have most luck with a slow constant retrieve, no pauses, no jerks, just a slow constant retrieve. I really recommend you fish this lure about 2-5feet along the side of the jettis, alot of striper tend to hang out right along side the rocks. You can also just cast it all over the place.. obviously. The 3rd lure I recommended was a tsunami swimshad, this lure and all other swimshads are fished pretty much the same way. You can either swim it at a slow-steady pace, or you can also experiment and hop/swim it. The fish should tell you what they want. Most of my luck comes retrieving it very slowly as I would a bomber. The advantage to this lure is the hook is on the top of the lure, which makes it kind of snag"less". This means you can fish this lure even closer to the rocks, or even be dareful enough to fish directly over the rocks. Be warned, if you do get snagged on a rock and manage to get the bait free, check the hook for any bends. Alot of the times after snagging on a rock the hook point will bend. Nothing a hook sharpener can't fix. The fourth lure I discussed was a krocodile, this is another lure that doesn't take much work to fish. Cast it out and bring it in at a slow, medium pace, or fast retrieve. For bluefish I tend to do best with a medium to fast retrieve. For striper I do best with a slow to medium retrieve, but experiment as you will and Im sure you'll find the best retrieve your comfortable with. The 5th lure mentioned was a topwater, now this lure requires a little more work then the others. A pencil popper is pretty much a walk the dog bait. For this plug you want to stick the handle of the rod into your waist and begin to quickly jerk the rod tip up, try not to reel much, you just want to reel to keep the slack out of the line. The main purpose for this plug is to make it walk the dog while not moving far at all. Once you begin to twitch the rod tip you'll see the action this plug has, remember the best way to fish this plug is not to cover water quickly, but to keep the lure going slowly across the surface while still darting side to side. One of the other topwaters I talked about was the Gibbs little neck popper, this popper is a bit different to fish then the pencil popper. With this plug you pretty much fish it the same way you would fish a popper for largemouth. You want to cast it out, jerk the rod top 1-3 times, making the popper dart and spit water, after you give these 1-3 jerks let the popper sit for 2-3secs and begin to jerk the popper 1-3 times again followed by another 2-3sec pause and just keep repeating this process until the popper is back to shore. This is also how you would typically fish any other plastic common poppers, such as tsunami's and yozuri's. Hopefully I gave you a good lesson on the basics of artificial lures and how to work them for stripers while fishing from the surf. Best of luck to you, if you have any more questions feel free to PM me 8-).

Im not one of them fisherman who strictly fish for one species of fish. I'll fish for anything I get the opportunity to fish for, be it weakfish, fluke, winter flounder, blackfish, kingfish, striper, trout, crappie, you name it... Striper are a very fun fish to catch but they're typically a fish that gives you a good challenge on catching, especially when your stuck to the shore like I am. I prefer using artificials, but you can use clams on a high low rig, or on a standard fluke style rig just with a size 4/0 5/0 bait hook. Best bet if your going to use clams is buy some "clam wrap" which your probably wondering what that is, just go to a small tackleshop and theyll explain everything to you. You can also use cut bunker, or live eels, but like I said I prefer artificials. For artificials I recommend a few lures which you can pretty much always have faith in. First would be a "School bus" pattern bomber (aka yellow baby striper), this is the plug I am referring to http://www.saltwateredge.com/BOM05.html. Secondly you'd want an all black bomber, same type of lure as the one above, but in all black obviously. Third lure I'd recommend would be a tsunami swimshad in either the 4 or 5inch size (can't go wrong with pearl spot) http://www.biminibayoutfitters.com/images/tsunami/swim_shad_07.jpg. The 4th lure I'd recommend is a krocodile in silver size 2oz http://www.eburch.biz/lj_krocodilespoon.jpg. This lure is great for bluefish, so if the blues come in you have a great lure to throw at them that they won't be able to tear or chip up like they would a bomber/swimshad, plus it also has been known to do quite well on striper too, so its like killing 2 birds with one stone. I'd really recommend for you to buy a wire leader if your throwing this lure into a bluefish blitz, because blues tend to bite your leader clean off, which they can't a wire leader. Finally, the 5th lure I'd recommend would be some type of topwater popper. This is because if the striper are busting on bunker on the surface (aka blitzing), a topwater popper is the perfect lure in this scenario. Two lures I strongly recommend for topwaters would be either a Gibbs little neck popper in white or yellow/white (http://www.stripersonline.net/cart/images/gibb_polaris.JPG), or a Gibbs Pencil Popper in white or yellow/white (http://www.saltwateredge.com/Pencil-Poppers-Gibbs.html). Be warned, these 2 lures are quite expensive, (17-22$) but they work great, even when a blitz I'snt occuring. If you choose to go the cheap route theres nothing wrong with that, then I'd recommend a Striper Swiper in blue/white or red/white(http://www.4fishin.com/Atomstriper.jpg), or some brand of plastic poppers, such as yozuri or tsunami. There are many other sorts of lures, including soft baits that will work well on striper, these are just a few basic proven effective plugs (if you want to know more lures that will work, just send me a PM). Also, let me advise you, the only striper experience I have is fishing from the surf, so if your fishing in a lake or bay I cannot honestly say these are your best bet lures for catching the striper in those specific bodies of water, but I can say if your planning to fish from the surf, these are the lures that have been known to get er done .

Small 1 1/2 - 2inch suspending rapalas, fished VERY VERY slowly.

How will megastrike work out if used for saltwater? Anyone tryed this? Now, I know one could say it wouldn't hurt to try, but I am afraid it actually might "hurt to try" because what if the scent turns off the fish instead of attracts them? I really can't say what megastrike is made with, and Im not asking for ingredients, I would just like to know what its suppose to smell like, and if you think it will work for saltwater species, mainly striper. Was thinking about rubbing it on sluggos, and other various striper soft plastics.

Ok, I have never been able to catch many carp until I discovered this one certain spot I'll call the honey hole. Now in this honey hole I am able to catch a good 10 carp on a good day, sometimes you get a hit every 10mins which imo is great for carp, sometimes you get a hit back to back to back. Good size carp too, some 10-20lbers in there. Me and the regular guys who fish it always catch and release the carp, so when we come again we can have a great day like always. Although, a bunch of guys been coming every other day to the spot with 3-4 rods each, fishing all day and keeping every single carp they catch. These guys have no understanding of the word "sportsmanship" they literally keep every single carp they catch. Sometimes taking 7-10 a day. Now, with them coming every other day I can easily picture the lake going to hell in no time flat. Since I don't know of any regulations on carp, I don't see theres much me and the guys can do other then sit back and watch them slowly destroy the carp population in the lake. How do you guys suggest on handling this, what can I do to save this great carp fishing lake from being turned into a spot where all's left is stories of the good ol days... Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.