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Still not a proponent of fish being line-shy. Red line is as visible as 20# test regardless of low # test. If I had used 6# test bright green fluorescent line, I would have done just as well. IMO line should be matched to lure size, lure action and the castable distance of a lure weight range...

Interesting coincidence talking about slow retrieve and lure size. I cast the whole day and only managed 4 fish. I was using a 1/24 oz jig and plastic lure that was obviously too big. At around 3pm I switched to a 1/32 oz jig and smaller plastic around 1". I immediately started to catch fish...

For sure!

My guess is that it doesn't - same for any lure design. When I fish one of 20 different lure shapes and actions, it's not to fool a fish into believing a lure is anything that lives; it's because fish are too dumb to make the correlation and will strike because they must when the...

Hard to prove unless you had a way of getting a response to the question - You hungry or what? - from the fish you just caught. Assigning a motive to the strike is simply human imagination at work assigning a label to the strike. Thousands of magazine articles in the past have...

Too bad - my opinions are the exact opposite of the above except for place and time and would be disregarded. Whatever floats your boat and catches fish.....

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Same here or I wouldn't fish. May as well use live bait under a float, use the same lures over and over or continually buy more stuff I don't need.

Jim, I'm not just talking about pouring baits - I rarely do that even though I own 40 molds. I'm referring to the modification of soft plastic lures you already own. Today was an example of a recently modified lure that caught over 14 fish doing better than one other lure that worked. Total...

First off, glad to hear of your recovery! I don't have any suggestions when it comes to increasing forum activity. It seems the content is mostly about tying jigs and flies and little about soft plastics. Call it superstition mixed in with the truth, but most lure casters believe - or want to...

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Been dying to fish some of my over 200 crankbaits - especially surface and near subsurface plugs. And you'd think that at least one of the four rods would have a crankbait tied on. Nope. Well at least a dozen or so are in the boat just in case I get the urge.

Nice colors! I wish there was an easy way to pour laminates. The two colors appeal to me and maybe to fish also. I want to believe that certain colors for certain lures do better than others. Superstition I know, but make-believe is half the fun of fishing; the other half is surprise and...

Granted, it's in my DNA to sit by the tube with candle lit, waiting for a light bulb to go on indicating which soft plastic parts to join, but once those lures do well, what then? Do they just get stored for future use; how many are taken on average and actually used; how many sit in the box and...

Hawn you expressed one of my considerations regarding lure choice but left out lure action/shape/rate and type retrieve, At the same time, you mentioned time & place choices which are absolute when it comes to any lure choice. I fish shallow water areas or surface activity when present even...

Anymore, I try not to assign a motive for strikes. Maybe too simplistic but the only thing I assign to a lure that got struck was ...THAT IT DID GET STRUCK! Why fish went crazy hammering it can only be speculated. Simply stated: there's got to be a reason why similar lures work far better than...

I have caught many fish that attacked again and again either on the same retrieve or repeated retrieves while working the lure slowly. my experience is the same as hookup's: I'm wondering if the type of lakes I fish and the shallow depths I try to find fish in make a difference when it comes to...

This post is in memory of jiggerjohn - a fellow fishing fanatic that was of the same opinion why fish strike lures. This is only one man's opinion so please don't shoot the writer. Plus I don't expect any replies considering the reasons we believe certain lures catch fish vary based on the...

John and I communicated weekly comparing notes and ideas. He was always very complimentary of my ideas regarding soft plastic design innovations and did well with those I sent him upon request. I enjoyed reading his posts and emails that always expressed his obsession with catching fish with...

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