01-15-2004, 01:48 AM
[cool][size 1]Probably the best example, and the easiest to use, is the tube jig. There are a lot of different styles of heads you can use with them. Some of them slip up inside the tube and the hook eye pushes through the plastic. Many of these come close to riding horizontally when dropped vertically (how's that?).[/size]
[size 1]There is a little trick that a lot of tube fanciers use to help level their lures. That is to use a double wrap around the hook eye with their line when tieing the knot. That makes a good tight cinch up and allows you to push the knot forward on the hook eye until you achieve just the right degree of horizontal.[/size]
[size 1]I have seen two guys fishing side by side, fishing the same size and color of tube jigs, with one outfishing the other by a wide margin. The guy using the cinch knot and horizontal jig is usually the one who scores more finicky fishes.[/size]
[size 1]I used to fish a lot more with marabou jigs, and often rigged them to fish "on the level" too. Crappies seem to appreciate them a lot more than those hanging vertically or at an angle. Same with trout.[/size]
[size 1]If you look in the ice fishing lure section of some of the tackletorium catalogs you will see quite a few special lures made for ice fishing. Many of them feature a hook eye in the top center, with wierdly shaped single hooks on each end, and a treble on the bottom. They look ugly and spooky, but they ride right and usually have a great circular swimming motion underwater when worked with pulsing action. That's often what it takes to stimulate a walleye.[/size]
[size 1]Once upon a time, on Willard Bay, I tried an experiment that worked, but I haven't brought it out much since. It was crude, but effective. I took one of my own origination flies...a "blue backed over and under", and tied the line around the middle of the fly. I then clamped a BB shot right next to the knot, added a waxie and sent it down. I had luckily drilled a hole over a school of hungry crappies and for the next two hours I couldn't keep them off. I lowered the fly about six feet below the ice, let it set for a couple of seconds and then quivvered the rod tip. Almost every time there was an answering "tick" and a crappie coming up through the hole. I even took a couple of 12" walleyes on a couple of drops where I let the sinker fly all the way to the bottom before stopping it.[/size]
[size 1]I hadn't remembered or thought about that in years, but it was one of numerous times when an improvised horizontal presentation worked well.[/size]
[size 1]If you like, I will tie up a few of the colors on those over and under flies and scan a pic of the sinker rig. I called them over and under (double barrelled deadly) because I ran a line of color both over the back and under the belly of a solid colored fly. I used lots of white bodies...with either red or blue metallic tinsel lines on top, and usually silver on the belly. I also made chartreuse bodies with black and hot red lines...with grey squirrel tail wings. [/size]
[size 1]Never did try pink though. Shoulda gone to Wichita.[/size]
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[size 1]There is a little trick that a lot of tube fanciers use to help level their lures. That is to use a double wrap around the hook eye with their line when tieing the knot. That makes a good tight cinch up and allows you to push the knot forward on the hook eye until you achieve just the right degree of horizontal.[/size]
[size 1]I have seen two guys fishing side by side, fishing the same size and color of tube jigs, with one outfishing the other by a wide margin. The guy using the cinch knot and horizontal jig is usually the one who scores more finicky fishes.[/size]
[size 1]I used to fish a lot more with marabou jigs, and often rigged them to fish "on the level" too. Crappies seem to appreciate them a lot more than those hanging vertically or at an angle. Same with trout.[/size]
[size 1]If you look in the ice fishing lure section of some of the tackletorium catalogs you will see quite a few special lures made for ice fishing. Many of them feature a hook eye in the top center, with wierdly shaped single hooks on each end, and a treble on the bottom. They look ugly and spooky, but they ride right and usually have a great circular swimming motion underwater when worked with pulsing action. That's often what it takes to stimulate a walleye.[/size]
[size 1]Once upon a time, on Willard Bay, I tried an experiment that worked, but I haven't brought it out much since. It was crude, but effective. I took one of my own origination flies...a "blue backed over and under", and tied the line around the middle of the fly. I then clamped a BB shot right next to the knot, added a waxie and sent it down. I had luckily drilled a hole over a school of hungry crappies and for the next two hours I couldn't keep them off. I lowered the fly about six feet below the ice, let it set for a couple of seconds and then quivvered the rod tip. Almost every time there was an answering "tick" and a crappie coming up through the hole. I even took a couple of 12" walleyes on a couple of drops where I let the sinker fly all the way to the bottom before stopping it.[/size]
[size 1]I hadn't remembered or thought about that in years, but it was one of numerous times when an improvised horizontal presentation worked well.[/size]
[size 1]If you like, I will tie up a few of the colors on those over and under flies and scan a pic of the sinker rig. I called them over and under (double barrelled deadly) because I ran a line of color both over the back and under the belly of a solid colored fly. I used lots of white bodies...with either red or blue metallic tinsel lines on top, and usually silver on the belly. I also made chartreuse bodies with black and hot red lines...with grey squirrel tail wings. [/size]
[size 1]Never did try pink though. Shoulda gone to Wichita.[/size]
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