Newbie Tuber Scores at Willard 9-15-23 (With Video)

[Cowboypirate]

Loved the video. Glad to see J get some good action. Really liking those new lures with the behind hook set up

Thankee sir.  Those "drop-back" fligs are kind of a natural link in the evolution of my flig making.  I started making "dropper jigs" many years ago...after successfully using Hali Jigs for ice fishing.  But instead of using the little chains...like the Hali Jigs (and the newer Johnson Spoons)  I used light stainless wire.  The fish didn't seem to mind and I caught quite a few different species on them...both under the ice and in open water.  

Last fall, when the perch were hitting well at Willard, Curt and Ira were catching some on Johnson Spoons.  So I made up some new types of dropper jig...in my fave Willard colors.  Caught a lot of perch on them.  So I recently decided to try the same dropper principle with the whirly fligs.  They work.  They are designed for dragging at slow speed behind a boat, tube, toon or yak.  But I caught some perch at Rockport last week by casting in to shore with them and retrieving slowly back to the tube.  So I gotta get you a few samples to try from shore...with a suitable clean bottom.  Here's a writeup I put together a while back on the dropper lure concept.

Ya i would love to try them out. I think you have added a few other trinkets to the arsenal since I last went shopping at Pat's Fish Emporium. Got to get up to date.