Fishing - Yum Craw Bug

"big fish 2003" wrote in message
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anyone here use a Yum craw bug? if so how do you rig it and what color
and size.

I've recently (this past week, week and a half, my vacation) tried them
some, with mixed success. I rigged it several ways, as a trailor on a small
rattlin jig (skirt trimmed so the "bug" would be more visible), alone on a
small black jig head, and alone t-rigged (very light, required a spinning
rig to use).

My best success came as a trailor on the jig and when alone on a jig head
(weights depends on where you're trying to get it to go IMO), but I boated
fish with each style of use. I used a red hook when I t-rigged it and
managed a couple of barely legal keepers with it, the weighted setups got me
into better areas (brush, laydowns) and I managed a few over 3# in one 1
hour stretch with them on one particular afternoon.

Colors, well, I went with their sort of melon-watermelon colored one since
they don't seem to make the exact color of our little local crawdads. So I
got those melon/speckled colored ones and added enough red coloring/die to
them to get them closer to the reddish/brown of our native crawfish. (Yum
makes a larger craw bait in red/metallic that is a little too red, but they
still work when big baits are still catching fish here, local stores didn't
have the Craw Big in this red/shad/metallic color at the time I got these
newer craw bugs). And while I am no expert, I'd try to learn what color the
local population of crawfish are in your area and try to match them since
the fish are used to seeing and consuming them, presumably with some
regularity, and probably wouldn't think twice to gobble one up if it
appeared to them like every other one they've ever eaten. Around central NC
they tend toward reddish browns that are almost copper in color, so that's
what I tried to emulate.