04-16-2014, 06:48 PM
As you've heard - the gulp AND the gulp-alive can be effective. I do especially like the gulp alive, but be warned - they DO dry out, and do NOT leave them on a hook - they dessicate and shrivel to a hard cement PITA. But you can get some that come in jars with the liquid, even buy the liquid to recharge them. Nice thing - is you can leave 'em in the car, no ice required. Do that with REAL minnows/worms, and um - roll down the windows!
You might also check out In-Fisherman, Doug Stang likes his plastics and gulps on a jig head - but he'll often rig them sideways. Guess it can give them more of an injured minnow action.
People will laugh at me, but seriously - watch a Banjow Minnow commercial. The product itself is really no more special than other plastics, but the underwater footage of how them work it and how it reacts to being worked can be helpful. Lift and drop, bounce bottom, lift - jiggle jiggle jiggle. Make it look half dead, hurt and helpless, and it triggers reactions.
Other times a fast - burnit swim calls out the strikes. Fish are fast when they want to be.
I've used my typical bead/blade combo, and added a split shot, or a sliding sinker upline - and slapped on a grub, or minnow. There are "products" that combine a spinner blade ahead of a plastic minnow, so I figgered - why not. The Crappie agreed - though this shot shows a pinch of worm.
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You might also check out In-Fisherman, Doug Stang likes his plastics and gulps on a jig head - but he'll often rig them sideways. Guess it can give them more of an injured minnow action.
People will laugh at me, but seriously - watch a Banjow Minnow commercial. The product itself is really no more special than other plastics, but the underwater footage of how them work it and how it reacts to being worked can be helpful. Lift and drop, bounce bottom, lift - jiggle jiggle jiggle. Make it look half dead, hurt and helpless, and it triggers reactions.
Other times a fast - burnit swim calls out the strikes. Fish are fast when they want to be.
I've used my typical bead/blade combo, and added a split shot, or a sliding sinker upline - and slapped on a grub, or minnow. There are "products" that combine a spinner blade ahead of a plastic minnow, so I figgered - why not. The Crappie agreed - though this shot shows a pinch of worm.
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