Lure choice is easier than many make it out to be

[SenkoSam]

[font="Open Sans", sans-serif]"In all likelihood it is the vibration the lure puts off that gets the fishes attention, it really does not have to look like anything they have ever seen to get their attention. That is what all three of those lures have in common, they all give off a vibration, when they are retrieved," [/font]

That coincides exactly with what I think when it comes to the strike: aggravating the fish with vibration and then the visual element takes over. What I've found that work best under a float are straight-tail plastic designs and hair jigs. This includes cone tail, straight wide thin tali (above), spike/prong-tail, Crappie Magnet grub tail and thin taper tail. Curl tails, like you said, need to be retrieved faster whereas straight tails display action with the slightest movement of the float or when be dragged under the float and paused.:




spike tail:


cone tail:


Thin taper:


Even short finesse worms have caught fish:


All of these have caught fish under a float: