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What plastics to use for flipping?

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Just wondering what you guys are using for plastics when flipping?

Got my a$$ waxed last year by a guy thowing Salt Craws into visable bruch piles - I also have recently started using Berkley Chigger Craws.

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Never thought about using hula grubs for flipping.  What salt craw are you talking about?  

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Anything plastic.

Senkos lead the list but guys are finding out that anything plastic will work with the Flipping and Pitching technique.

Don't forget your heavy weighted tubes for grass, too.

Just go out and have some fun and be sure to post pics.   ;)

GYCB Flappin hog is by far my favorite.  There's something about this thing...its less than 4 inches long but I've caught more bass over 5 pounds with it than anything else in my tackle box.  (including my first 10 pounder earlier this year)

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Gene Larew Salty Hawg Craw  ;)

Usually when I flip, I flip with a jig and beaver trailor. For soft plastics I like to flip with a sweet beaver or a tube.

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I prefer jigs tipped with some sort of plastic craw, tubes, and brush hawgs.  Your standard 6" worm works well in timber too.

I like a large profile plastic with a solid weight...usually 3/16 to 3/8oz tru-tungsten depending on how bulky the plastic is.  A brush hog with a 3/8oz weight will still fall slower than a Beaver with a 1/4oz weight.  You just have to adjust to get your desired rate of fall.  My favorites

are...

Bass Pro Shops Beaver Bug in Roadkill.  This is my 'fat ika'.  This bait has dominated for me all summer.  I don't leave home without it.

Double Wide Beaver 5.20 with a pegged 3/16oz weight.

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Berkley Sabertail Burly Bug with a 1/4oz weight.  This thing is fat...it is as thick as a fat ika with tons of action from those claws.  Very underrated bait that flies under the radar.

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Gary Yamamoto Flappin' Hog.  It looks good...sure...but check it out in shallow water laying on the bottom.  I'm not sure why, but it looks just like a 'dad.  

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I'll throw those along with a jig to get a reaction bite, but it is important to have your change up ready if they don't want fast food.  In that case I'll throw a weightless Senko

I use Double Wide Beavers, Sweet Beavers, 6 inch Senkos, etc. Pretty much anything works. I like beavers the most though. Or a jig.

Always my first choice is a Chigger Craw but next to none would be a tube.  Their my go-to's.  

Growning Up I used to watch the Orlando Wilson Fishing Show...ALOT.  He did a show once on worm fishing and Flipping.  Lucky me I had it recorded. The tape is gone now but what was on it I still use.

Orlando said for flippin he liked a BIG UGLY BAIT.  It works.

I us something bigger and uglier thatn what I would fish around the cover.

Ern  

Growning Up I used to watch the Orlando Wilson Fishing Show...ALOT. He did a show once on worm fishing and Flipping. Lucky me I had it recorded. The tape is gone now but what was on it I still use.

Orlando said for flippin he liked a BIG UGLY BAIT. It works.

I us something bigger and uglier thatn what I would fish around the cover.

Ern

So much truth to this. I generally throw a berkley beast, beaver or the ugliest thing I can find at the time. that flappin' hog looks like the ticket. I've melted a couple Beasts together for added bulk and tentacles....think I got that tip from Ike somewhere or something...can't remember.

I like to keep it simple. Zoom Ultravibe Speed Craws in Green Pumpkin and Watermelon Red Tomato. Also as a change-up, I'll throw the Yamamoto Creature Bait in Green Pumpkin with Black and Gold Flake.

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