01-31-2008, 01:51 PM
TD,
Thanks for your well considered response to my posts. You are right. I am indeed mostly a light tackle junkie and like you take great pleasure in fooling fish with my home made offerings. I have been fishing my own way for many years and the jig in various configurations is usually my go to lure. A lot of my new found interest in other lures comes from having purchased a medium light action baitcasting setup which is ideal for fishing plugs and crankbaits. If I ever get around to carrying four rods on my tube. I would have the baitcaster set up with some type of crank or jerkbait. My ultralite spinning rod would be equipped with some sort of jig. Another light spinning rod would have an in-line spinner or pony jig (or beetle spin) and my flyrod would likely be equipped with a full sink line with a spare spool holding the floating line for topwater use. So far I've stuck with only two or three rods as I can lash them to the side of my tube. (I had a couple of near disasters with shoreline vegetation with the upright carrier.)
I have done a lot of flyfishing at my club where only flyrods are allowed. They have not yet made any rules about what can be on the end of your leader so being an "out-of-the box" kind of guy when things get slow I have cast even tiny plugs that I have made or purchased. I also toss small spinner/flies. No matter how much movement I can build into my "normal" flies I can never get the flash, vibration and rattle possible with the plugs and spinners. I have caught two rainbows well over ten pounds on my flyrod at the club. One was taken on a crayfish coloured 3 inch bass tube and the other on one of your pony jigs. The regular fly guys don't normally catch these big holdover trout. By the way I have 10 streamers for every dry fly!) I don't actually catch too many of them either but man I sure see a lot of them. It must be the vibration that triggers them to race out of nowhere and somehow manage to miss my offering. This is what has piqued my curiosity about regular lures especially since I discovered the good fishing for bass, pike, crappie and perch on a local reservoir where I can fish any way I choose.
Another related question for you, Pat. For your style of fishing do you still use mono or do you cast the braids and superlines?
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Thanks for your well considered response to my posts. You are right. I am indeed mostly a light tackle junkie and like you take great pleasure in fooling fish with my home made offerings. I have been fishing my own way for many years and the jig in various configurations is usually my go to lure. A lot of my new found interest in other lures comes from having purchased a medium light action baitcasting setup which is ideal for fishing plugs and crankbaits. If I ever get around to carrying four rods on my tube. I would have the baitcaster set up with some type of crank or jerkbait. My ultralite spinning rod would be equipped with some sort of jig. Another light spinning rod would have an in-line spinner or pony jig (or beetle spin) and my flyrod would likely be equipped with a full sink line with a spare spool holding the floating line for topwater use. So far I've stuck with only two or three rods as I can lash them to the side of my tube. (I had a couple of near disasters with shoreline vegetation with the upright carrier.)
I have done a lot of flyfishing at my club where only flyrods are allowed. They have not yet made any rules about what can be on the end of your leader so being an "out-of-the box" kind of guy when things get slow I have cast even tiny plugs that I have made or purchased. I also toss small spinner/flies. No matter how much movement I can build into my "normal" flies I can never get the flash, vibration and rattle possible with the plugs and spinners. I have caught two rainbows well over ten pounds on my flyrod at the club. One was taken on a crayfish coloured 3 inch bass tube and the other on one of your pony jigs. The regular fly guys don't normally catch these big holdover trout. By the way I have 10 streamers for every dry fly!) I don't actually catch too many of them either but man I sure see a lot of them. It must be the vibration that triggers them to race out of nowhere and somehow manage to miss my offering. This is what has piqued my curiosity about regular lures especially since I discovered the good fishing for bass, pike, crappie and perch on a local reservoir where I can fish any way I choose.
Another related question for you, Pat. For your style of fishing do you still use mono or do you cast the braids and superlines?
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