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I imagine it's like you or me: once an object gets past the mouth, a process starts that moves food (or non-food stuff like in the case of lures) toward the stomach: Once the food reaches the esophagus, the fish then use a complex combination of mouth opening and closing, body muscle...

Man made moving objects- lures- do just that - entice and provoke! Fish may ignore a live minnow, but put the right lure in range of their sense detectors, worked the right way and they can't help themselves once the lure is within the strike zone. The hybrids photos I display on jc.com are...

Thx for the photos. The lures I showed would not do well with that much weight - especially a ball head. 1/8 oz would be the heaviest.

Would like to see a picture of the 1/4 oz jig plus the 3" plastic you used. When I fish rivers for smallies, I never need to go heavier than 1/8 oz.

Not an improvement plus they won't stay in place like one side that's wrapped tight. JMO

The best lures provide the highest potential for provoking fish to strike that are in the hands of the angler along with the right presentation. All the rest is beyond anyone's control and must be dealt with during the search for more active fish. Fish aggression levels change based on many...

The problem with glue is when changing lures. 1. bits of the plastic is still attached 2. the lure can't be reused.

1/4 oz is one heavy jig. 1/8 is the heaviest I'll go. Today after heavy downpours last night, the aggression level was dead in deeper water but higher in water under 5' and closer to shore. Mostly little buggers hit little lures on light jigs but with gusto! 1/24 and 1/32 oz jigs did well...

This is the end product of the grub-grip. Gut some 24 gage coated floral arrangement wire Snip a section off and line it up to the line tie post: Wrap one end around the post tightly: Snip off one side close and use pliers to make it tighter: Bend the wire as shown: Swing the...

Congrats catching that behemouth! Granted, catching fish is the first challenge - netting BIG fish on small lures and light line is another. The reason I cast light jigs/small plastics is to perfect my finesse fishing skills. When the bite is dead like in the last few outings, there's got to be...

"So even with a natural as possible appearance guessing that there was still a contrast factor that enabled a better bite reaction than actual live bait." Definitions of instinct: 1. inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli 2.the ability to know - without thinking - how to...

Since this post in 2022, I discovered so many more great designs rigged on 1/24 - 1/16 oz ball head jigs. I love it when others catch fish on my designs and I'm willing to send some n/c to anyone that request them. A buddy of mine that recently started fishing from my boat and has been blown...

I thought of something that might explain my theory why fish attack lures: fish senses do an incredible job of detecting live prey via instincts. When it comes to lures, the message sent to it's tiny brain is zero instinctual. The brain doesn't have a clue what the thing -the lure that is. It's...

Contrast says it all! I had a great day last weekend catching fish on many shapes and colors and mostly in 7' of water. The strikes & fights were hard from decent size crappie to larger than hand size sunfish. Glad I took the usual photos to document the catch so I can duplicate those shapes...

But one thing I left out: jig weight. Different weights for different lures and presentations make all the difference. i.e. we got into a school of small sunnies that nipped at the tails of our small grubs. Jig weight was 1/16 oz. - heavy and too large a hook for a slower retrieve in 3'. We...

I've never seen them before. Bet the pannies would have clobbered them today in shallow water.

This year the word unnatural pops up in forum conversations applied to lures: manmade moving objects that provoke fish aggression. Says a lot about lures in general and specific lure properties such as color, motion, shape and action. Like any engrained belief, some find it impossible to accept...

They inhale everything they seek to eat? Recently I found this true even with panfish. A few days ago I had a buddy tie on a thin wire leader with duo-lock and light jig, #10 test braid.. It didn't affect his or my catch rate at all. This swimbait with leader caught bass and a few crappie...

I don't targe species that require a leader, but the pickerel in my local lake are hitting big time this year biting off a lot of angler's lures - even a Zara Spook in my case! The pick went over 30" before it cut the line at the boat. Never saw the one that consumed the Spook.

I finally got tired of losing so many lures to pickerel. A few days ago my Zara Spook-like surface lure was gone in a second along with 3 - 5" swimbaits! So, I searched my wire leader selection (not used in over 10 years) and found one only 6lb test in diameter with a duo-lock snap-to-loop at...