best all-around plug for lake fishing ?

DT6 in Shad :-)
CAINE wrote:
traditionally in these parts of the northeast, it was always a fake
minnow, i.e. "Rapala"

if you had to choose (1) lure to take all day fishing the edges as well
as middle of lake from a boat, what would you choose ?

suggestions/opinions ??

Chris Rennert wrote:
DT6 in Shad :-)
CAINE wrote:
traditionally in these parts of the northeast, it was always a fake
minnow, i.e. "Rapala"

if you had to choose (1) lure to take all day fishing the edges as well
as middle of lake from a boat, what would you choose ?

suggestions/opinions ??


interesting suggestions.

one time my brother took a large weird looking lure out of my
grandfather's old tackle box- I don't even know what it was or what is
was supposed to mock, but it sounded like a tin can dragging a small
rattling chain when it went across the water- we all laughed hard every
time he casted it- until BANG- a bass hit it and he reeled it in- the
laughing stopped.

I have to find that lure, and take a picture of it and post it here-
maybe one of you fellas can ID it for me

I missed one on a plug yesterday afternoon- using the baitcaster- here
I was casting as far as I could, about 100-125 feet or so, fishing
along lillys and weeds and slowly working my way down a 200 foot
stretch of shoreline- at the end there was one of the small inlets to
the lake and a channel- so I toss the darn lure about 40 feet away
across the channel, almost hitting the other shoreline, and start
retrieving, not being ready and not expecting anything- POW- a bass
hits it and I miss him.

he got me !

The math in your whole post doesn't add up. I'm sorry I bit.
duty-honor-country wrote:
Chris Rennert wrote:
DT6 in Shad :-)
CAINE wrote:
traditionally in these parts of the northeast, it was always a fake
minnow, i.e. "Rapala"

if you had to choose (1) lure to take all day fishing the edges as well
as middle of lake from a boat, what would you choose ?

suggestions/opinions ??


interesting suggestions.

one time my brother took a large weird looking lure out of my
grandfather's old tackle box- I don't even know what it was or what is
was supposed to mock, but it sounded like a tin can dragging a small
rattling chain when it went across the water- we all laughed hard every
time he casted it- until BANG- a bass hit it and he reeled it in- the
laughing stopped.

I have to find that lure, and take a picture of it and post it here-
maybe one of you fellas can ID it for me

I missed one on a plug yesterday afternoon- using the baitcaster- here
I was casting as far as I could, about 100-125 feet or so, fishing
along lillys and weeds and slowly working my way down a 200 foot
stretch of shoreline- at the end there was one of the small inlets to
the lake and a channel- so I toss the darn lure about 40 feet away
across the channel, almost hitting the other shoreline, and start
retrieving, not being ready and not expecting anything- POW- a bass
hits it and I miss him.

he got me !

Chris Rennert wrote:
The math in your whole post doesn't add up. I'm sorry I bit.
duty-honor-country wrote:
Chris Rennert wrote:
DT6 in Shad :-)
CAINE wrote:
traditionally in these parts of the northeast, it was always a fake
minnow, i.e. "Rapala"

if you had to choose (1) lure to take all day fishing the edges as well
as middle of lake from a boat, what would you choose ?

suggestions/opinions ??


interesting suggestions.

one time my brother took a large weird looking lure out of my
grandfather's old tackle box- I don't even know what it was or what is
was supposed to mock, but it sounded like a tin can dragging a small
rattling chain when it went across the water- we all laughed hard every
time he casted it- until BANG- a bass hit it and he reeled it in- the
laughing stopped.

I have to find that lure, and take a picture of it and post it here-
maybe one of you fellas can ID it for me

I missed one on a plug yesterday afternoon- using the baitcaster- here
I was casting as far as I could, about 100-125 feet or so, fishing
along lillys and weeds and slowly working my way down a 200 foot
stretch of shoreline- at the end there was one of the small inlets to
the lake and a channel- so I toss the darn lure about 40 feet away
across the channel, almost hitting the other shoreline, and start
retrieving, not being ready and not expecting anything- POW- a bass
hits it and I miss him.

he got me !



there is no "math" involved- I was whipping a lure as hard and far as I
could with sidearm casts. It will go 100 feet with a heavy lure.
Then I make this gentle 40 foot cast nearby, and get a hit.

Last night I caught a 3 lb. bass at the local pond here on another
plug.