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TexGator · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 22 May 2012 Posts: 429

I grew up fishing in Florida and we used to tip our plastics with a small piece of shrimp. Once I moved out here I stopped doing it. The question I have is has anyone here tried tipping plastics with a strip of fishbites? I have used them in the surf and think it is a great product but have not heard of anyone doing this.

obsessed · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1200

haven't done that, to be honest....only time i tip anything with fishbites is while surf fishing, piece of fresh dead scrimp with a fishbite attached...deadly there....

don't see why it wouldn't work with a plastic though, maybe change the action of the lure?
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I have done that while fishing for flounder. It works well and might be just the ticket around the bulkhead at Robert's Park or Charlie's Pasture for spring flounder.
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omaka · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:04 am Post subject:

Yep! I tip plastics with fishbites when targeting flounder. Any color will work as long as it's white (prefer shrimp flav).

I also tip fbites to plastic skirts when me go offshore catchin. Monstah Red and Vermilion snappahs go crazy over them. Good luck! Cool

obsessed · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1200

yall used Chickenboy's chicken steamy excrement spray on his lures yet???
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ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:05 pm Post subject:

I've tipped soft plastics and gold spoons with fish bites when fishing reel stained water or brown tide. Seems to attract more fish in those conditions

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shallowsport · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:44 pm Post subject:

Just use a little WD40. Brings in the fish and keeps the hooks from rusting.

tbugosh · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:50 am Post subject:

I do it (expecially for flounder) but usually with a natural 'strip bait'. Years ago we use to cut a wedge from behind the anal fin of a flounder (not really useful for eats, was very durable, was white on one side and brown on the other, very much like an actual mud minnow).

ziacatcher · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:13 pm Post subject:

When I first moved to TX and old timer in Rockport told me about putting a piece of flounder belly on a jig head with a red/white shrimptail. Worked like a charm. Only problem was you had to first catch a flounder to get some belly. That's where the fishbites come in handy.

obsessed · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1200

eh, who changed my original post, all i did was ask if yall used the scent...it really is called what i typed, no lie.

http://shop.chickenboylures.com/Chicken-steamy excrement-Scent_c28.htm
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