SPOONMINNOW
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Many times, the best way to catch fish on a slow day, pops up when fish aren't attacking action-tail lures such as the curl tail grub or crankbaits: go slow & small or go home. Specific retrieves matched to certain lures bring out the strike-trigger of a lure that provokes fish to attack. The Ned rig is one.
It looks like a salt-weighted Senko cut in half and rigged on a heavy jig. It has no action on the surface or at mid-depth and is a bottom hopper. Lure action is from the slight flex of the body. The shape got me thinking: why not make a similar shape that is light and small rigged on a light jig, allowing the lure to be worked mid-depth with an unsteady retrieve. This one is a hybrid of a grub front melted onto a grub front. Jig weight can be 1/32, 1/24 or 1/16 oz. which allows a darting/gliding action at any depth with rod tip twitches and slight turns of the reel handle.
Another is the tail end of a clear taper-tail stick I poured added to the front part of a soft stick worm:
Another example is 2 grub bodies joined with the flame:
The first time I caught a fish on a grub body last year was when a pickerel bit off the tail of a curl tail grub. I figured it couldn't hurt to cast it out and sure enough it caught this little bass and many other fish that day:
This evolved into many similar short plastic shapes - ALL proven to catch fish even on the slowest days.
A short, slim plastic worm can be wacky rigged on a light jighead, but better yet, two spike tail grub tails melted together to a grub body:
You can imagine the tip quiver imparted with rod tip twitches that drive fish nuts!
One poster called the above a copy of the Ned Rig. But in fishing, and especially for lures, details matter. The above is unique and proven, call it what you will.
It looks like a salt-weighted Senko cut in half and rigged on a heavy jig. It has no action on the surface or at mid-depth and is a bottom hopper. Lure action is from the slight flex of the body. The shape got me thinking: why not make a similar shape that is light and small rigged on a light jig, allowing the lure to be worked mid-depth with an unsteady retrieve. This one is a hybrid of a grub front melted onto a grub front. Jig weight can be 1/32, 1/24 or 1/16 oz. which allows a darting/gliding action at any depth with rod tip twitches and slight turns of the reel handle.
Another is the tail end of a clear taper-tail stick I poured added to the front part of a soft stick worm:
Another example is 2 grub bodies joined with the flame:
The first time I caught a fish on a grub body last year was when a pickerel bit off the tail of a curl tail grub. I figured it couldn't hurt to cast it out and sure enough it caught this little bass and many other fish that day:
This evolved into many similar short plastic shapes - ALL proven to catch fish even on the slowest days.
A short, slim plastic worm can be wacky rigged on a light jighead, but better yet, two spike tail grub tails melted together to a grub body:
You can imagine the tip quiver imparted with rod tip twitches that drive fish nuts!
One poster called the above a copy of the Ned Rig. But in fishing, and especially for lures, details matter. The above is unique and proven, call it what you will.
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