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I have a striper bait I make and it catches them when the big fish are around. Smallest I have caught on it is 17 and the largest is just over 30. My best morning I caught a dozen stripers, smallest was 19, largest was 26. It is a 12" sluggo that I pour. I took 9" sluggos and cut them and burned them back together until they were 12" long and made a mold. Pour them in pearl white and they catch fish. I fish them with an 11/0 owner.
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I really like the Yumbrella rigs and flash mobs. Strike Kind swimbait heads are the best hands down. I use Go 2 Jolt swimbaits because they have the most action and I can fish them at any speed.
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Has or does anyone fish the regular old Powerbait Swim shads on them (that style) or is it better off with a jighead+swimbait?
I went back and picked up the smaller Yumbrella Ultralight. I will start there then work up in size if I am happy with results. |
I have fished with the storm pre rigged baits and never cared for them, not much action. I think most of those don't have a long enough body to get good action out of.
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Threw an Arig late Sunday afternoon. Little swimbaits on it. Hooked a striper which swirled on the surface and headed for deep water. About 50 yards of braid later, I tried to turn her - straightened a pretty darn strong swimbait jig head.
Wasn't fishing for striper but I want a second chance now. 3 baits were 3.5" and 2 were little 2" grubs. |
You need serious hooks when fishing in rockfish waters. I've had them straighten hooks that I wasn't able to reshape. Strong fish.
And you never know if it's a 5 lb'er or a 50 lb'er till you get it to the boat. |
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Passed the eye test for me anyways. We shall see soon. |
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I have not had to many chances to straighten out hooks with a striper but I have hooked into a couple Gar on 65lb braid with #6 and #8 treble hooks and straightened those out. I know they are not as stout as swimbait hooks but I would have to guess decent fish since I have only done it twice and never had a chance to see the fish because they took off like a freight train.
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If you are going to play with the big fish you don't use wire hooks only forged hooks if you want a chance to landed them and 30lb braid with the drag set right not tight....................woody
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Woody's absolutely right, (LOOK OUT! THE SKY IS GOING TO FALL!), wire hooks and big stripers are a recipe for lost fish.
The hook I alluded to in my earlier post was a salt water hook that couldn't be straightened back into shape. Two sets of pliers and I couldn't begin to reshape it. and I WORK OUT!!!!! Have no idea how big the fish was, never got it close to the boat. http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/ag...19fa6.jpg.html http://http://s1276.photobucket.com/...19fa6.jpg.html |
Look at that, the secret Merv striper swimbait color!!
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DAMMIT! I didn't even think about that!
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50"+ yes 40"+ maybe 30"+ no 20"+ definitely not In my opinion... |
You got to remember I moved here from Maryland and big is 50" and up. When I made baits there the smallest jig head was 4 ounce and the biggest was 36 ounce for stripers...................woody
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I added to the ARig collection today. Getting ready for G-ville next month and the Chick at the beginning of march. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Oh yeah, know of the guy well. Monster sacks of fish. I said Chick in March and meant May, sorry. G-ville march 13-14, Chick May 7-10th. I wanted to go earlier in the year but getting 8 guys schedules to work together is tough. I wish I could have went with you to Chick next month but I knew I had enough trips planned this spring. I leave for Crossville to play golf the last weekend of April.... still not sure why the wife puts up with me and my hobbies. You guys fishing Dallas bay or will he decide when you guys get there to the lake?
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Those are some huge jigs. Bottom bouncers on a three way or in heavy rips? |
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Never been to the lake, gonna start making annual treks there. |
Juice, I will be up on The Chick late march for a high school tourney. Let us know how you do!
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Depending on how well this year goes on chick we will be jumping back and forth between it and G-ville for our yearly trip. I have been scouting the lake and I really like the Dallas Bay area and a few little coves across the lake. With it being early May when I am there I am sure like G-ville you get a little of every form of spring fishing, pre,post and spawn at the same time. It's going to be fun to try out the new waters and see what works and where. |
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36 oz jig?!? Do you have any pics of these? I'd really like to see one! Mike |
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I also want to see the equipment used to fish them. Can you imagine casting 36 ozs all day. :) No hook needed. Just throw the lure over the side and hope it hits the fish on the way down. |
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