Your Top 5 Lures

Hey Charles, just how well does that Red Shad produce and on what? Reason I
ask, I know someone who wins Big Bass quite often, and he tells me it is
because of Red Shad Lizards. He claims largemouth just love the color!

--
Craig Baugher
Be Confident, Focused, but most of all Have FUN!

No particular order


Bass Assassins- Simply put one of my top producers, 4/0 wide gap hook if
jerking and letting it fall, if fishing fast across the top of the water I
switch to a 4/0 lunker city offset hook.

Wacky Rigged Senko/Wacko, hard to beat this combo, wacky rigging soft
stickbaits produce fish, hard to screw this type of fishing up. I use a 1/0
Gammy octopus hook, the smaller hook has no problem holding fish and lets
the stickbait fall at the right speed and wobble, if fishing water with
bigger fish(over 3 lbs) I switch to a 2/0 gammy octopus red hook.

Secret weapon, either a green goddess or white with silver blades, any
kind, has not made too much of a difference, they catch fish period!!

Strike King Quad Shad spinner bait, another awesome spinner bait that
produces big time.


Zoom speed worm, Lunker city spanky(awesome), berkely bungee worm, zoom
baby brush hogs, are all in that must have with me catagory


I can't count so ggod I must mention a few more, Heddon Zara spook in
bullfrog or blk/white, heddon lucky 13 in chrome blue, Creek Chub jointed
minnow, Diamond shad in Gold Black, Yozuri twitchin minnow in blk gold(one
of the best hard jerkbaits I ever fished) and can't forget the wacky worm
soft craws, these are just killer.

I fish mostly smallmouth waters here in upstate NY, and I am amazed that I
NEVER hear anyone metion any type of in-line spinner, such as Mepps, Blue
Fox, etc. Am I the only person have great success with these lures anymore?

Actually, on the days I fished with Joe, I did start with spinnerbaits and
was catching some fish as was Joe, but when the breezes died off the
spinnerbait bite slowed also. I can normally do OK in calm water if I use
smaller spinnerbaits, such as 1/4oz. or even better, 1/8 oz., but I had
nothing smaller than 3/8 oz. with me at that time. We at SW no longer offer
either the 1/4 or 1/8 sizes, and instead have introduced the tremendously
successful new size of 3/16 oz., which is a cross between the two. That will
be a legend.
--
Bob Rickard
(AKA Dr. Spinnerbait)
www.secretweaponlures.com
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"Craig Baugher" wrote in message
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Bob, I know you're a spinnerbait expert, but everything I have read about
your personal fishing has you using some type of soft plastic. Is this
because on the days you fished with Joe & Charles, the water was flat
calm?
Do you ever throw a spinnerbait on calm water or does it have to have at
least a few waves before you throw one? I also agree with you, Gene Larew
makes some excellent lures, and I love their Green Pumpkin/Orange Craws.

--
Craig Baugher
Be Confident, Focused, but most of all Have FUN!

In-line spinners are great lures, but are not used frequently by most bass
anglers because they cannot usually be used successfully around most heavy
cover without snagging. That is why "safety-pin" spinners (or "spinnerbaits"
as they are called) are the predominant type spinner lure used for bass. The
only real exception would be our own Secret Weapon, which could be
considered a cross between the two types; it sounds like an in-line to fish
but is snagless like the safety-pin type (among other things).
--
Bob Rickard
(AKA Dr. Spinnerbait)
www.secretweaponlures.com
--------------------------=x O')))

"John C. French" wrote in message
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I fish mostly smallmouth waters here in upstate NY, and I am amazed that I
NEVER hear anyone metion any type of in-line spinner, such as Mepps, Blue
Fox, etc. Am I the only person have great success with these lures
anymore?

1 5.75" Fisn-S Fish, Golden Shiner, on 3/0 Texposer Hook, unweigted and
rigged on Fireline.

2 Smoke Mr. Twister Sassy Grub on 1/8 oz LunkerGrip weedless football
head, fished on 6 lb mono. I could not get from March to the beginning of
May, or from the beginning of October to ice-up without this lure. It's
long since been discontinued, but I bought what was meant to me a life-time
supply. Unfortunately, I'm down to less than 400 in my stash. Then again,
at my age, that may be a lifetime supply.G

3 Green Pumpkin 5" creature bait. T-rigged, 3/16 oz weight, 2/0 Texposer
on 10 or 12 pound mono. Used to be a Baby Brush hog, but I've pretty much
switched to LC's new Ozmo. (the advantage of getting stuff during
developmentG)

4 Jerkbait -- Lucky Craft Pointer 78. If I MUST pick a color, I'd probably
got with Aurora Pro Blue. But I'd sneak an Aurora Gold one in the box, too.

5 Spinnerbait. 3/4 or 1 oz head. Single nickel Pickens blade (harder to
find than my smoke sassy grubs above, and my supply is REALLY limited -- a
big colorado without too much belly will do in a pinch) and a golden shiner
skirt.

Surprisingly, there's no drop shot bait on that list but that's because
I've got 3 or 4 favorites that I use kind of interchangeably.

Jig & pig? Might've been # 6 if the list was longer.

A bigger creature would be # 1 if I was fishing 'nut. If you eliminated the
parts of the season that the water is under 50 degrees, it would replace
the Sassy Grub.



RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing

Bucket Mouth wrote in message
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Just for the fun of it, list your top 5 bass lurs that you can't live
without. Try to be specific (brand, size, color, how you rig/fish it).

From the standpoint of a guy who mostly shore fishes in shallow, weedy
water, I'll list six, without the specifics, in no particular order:

1. Jitterbug
2. Grass Frog/Pop'n'Frog
3. Original 7" Power Worm
4. Senko
5. Kut Tail
6. Baby 1-

.....and the Secret Weapon line of In-Line spinners comes out when? asked
Huck

1. StrikeKing Jr Tri-Wing Buzzbait. Curado\ 7' TA Revolver Reaction series
Rod\ 25# mono.White or White & Chartreuse. Open water and around any visible
cover

2. Soft Stick Bait (4 or 5") Senko or Flash. Junebug\Golden Shiner.
T-Rigged on 3\0 or 4\0 LC Texposer. AG T3000\ 20# Fireline\6'
Custom Angle Rod. This "do-nothing" works anywhere/anytime.

3. Rebel Teeney Deep R (out of production) various colors. Upsize the hooks
to #6.... 10# low stretch mono on 1600Morrum\6' Fenwick HMG Light action
pistol grip. Roll Cast around visible cover and underneath overhanging
brush\docks.

4. 8" Mann's JellyWorm. Black Grape. 1/4oz Florida weight & rattle
3/0 EWG or 4/0 Straight Worm hook. Curado\30# PowerPro\6'6"
Fenwick HMG MH rod.

5. Zoom BrushHog / JuneBug w/tail dipped in Chartreuse Dip&Glow
5/16 Florida Weight/ 3/0 EWG & Rattle/ 50# PowerPro\ Curado \
7'6" Falcon Lowrider.

........interesting how the demographics play out comparing selections for
the folks fishing the Northern Glacial lakes and the Lowland River\Reservoir
anglers.

"Huck Palmatier" wrote in message
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....and the Secret Weapon line of In-Line spinners comes out when?
asked
Huck

What Bob is referring to is the way that the blades are attached on a SW
spinnerbait, the blades revolve in the exact manner as an inline spinner,
giving it a similar sonic signature in the water.

A conventional spinnerbait blade does not spin in the same manner, and will
give off a different vibration in the water.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com