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huntnreds · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject: Can't catch nothin

Ok fellas if ya had only one lure of your choice to fish with all day what would it be? I hate artificials with a passion I can't catch a dang thing on em so I'm just trying to get an idea of what to use from some of the pros on the board. I have all of the basics I think bone spooks, spoons, gulps,I have em all I think I just suck at using them.
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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

catch 2000, top dog in bone, and gold spoons.

just fishing with one lure is a sign of psychosis

JM · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:24 pm Post subject:

Just pick one lure and stick with it. I love plastics. I used to be a bait guy and it got boring. I have been fishing plastics for years and love it. Get a few colors and styles and just stick with one until you master it. I have a bag full of crap and throw the same thing all the time. Works about 90 % of the time. If the fish are not biting it doesn't matter. Go get em.

Kingz · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:40 pm Post subject:

Prob not all day, but a Mann's Baby Minus-1 crankbait is a real fishfinder

Bay Grinder · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:42 pm Post subject: Gilligan's Islands bait?

Mine would be a orange (bright orange on top / gold flake on sides and yellow on bottom) corky fatboy. Give rhythmic twitches while reeling in line with slow reeling for with no twitches - then resume rhythmic twitches of rod tip. This technique will walk the dog under water for all twitch baits. Also the most important tip for corkies- never stop reeling the lure in. Again, you must twitch the rod tip while reeling, and during the pause of twitching keep reeling in slow. Sometimes even a speed burst can entice a solid bite! I walk the dog same way with topwaters and even with soft plastics using rhythmic twitches (rait tails). Anyway...long story short, learn the foundations of 'walk the dog' technique with topwaters and twitch baits and spend time finding 'fishy water' once you've put the lure in front of the fish presented the right way, color and size really don't matter.

flounder daddy · Guest

Capt. Mark Nichols of DOA lures nailed it when he said this " Fish with the lure(s) you have the most confidence in"
People get very comfortable fishing certain plastics, top-waters, crank baits, etc. I'm a soft plastic jig head guy myself. Keep a little variety, but you will develop trends and will develop your line up of " go to's".

Moisticles · Pony Mullet Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 71

Paddle tails are good to learn on because the tail does most of the work for you. Same with chicken boys. And they don't tend to spin as much as rat tails due to improper rigging.

Check out this link from TTF:

http://www.texastacklefactory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=111

But like the guys said before find an artificial you're confident in. I'd spend more energy researching when and where to go e.g. tides, pressure changes, water clarity, feeding patterns, water temp, bottom structure, wind etc

Many times I've been side by side to a buddy, both of us throwing completely different colors and both getting good hook ups

Good luck out there

blackhawk78418 · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:19 pm Post subject:

Somehow someway it's confidence in a lure.. If you totally believe a certain lure will catch a fish it usually does.. Buddy's tell me to try a certain color and type of plastic and I do and if for whatever reason I dnt like it i won't catch. Still at the same place I switch to what I like and I start getting hits..