Skunkworks Results

[lollygagger]

Tommy Biffle runs his similar jigs w/heavy heads at a slow crankbait retrieve. Wobbles it along....Have always called it lollygagging....fast enough to not get hung up....slow enough to bump about every rock......Very impressed.....Helgramatic ???? Killer on smallmouth.....Nice Work...

[Pepe]

Halloween Spoon

[Old plug]

I like to hop a heavy jig and trailer down step channel banks and over ledge in cold weather. That is the exact system Dion Hibdon used to win that BASS tournament they had here a couple years back.

DANGER CLOSE----- That spoon will work OK but if you want to get the most out of a pure lead spoon follow along the lines of a slab spoon. It is one if the great ones. I usually cut one hook on the treble off and have used spoons a lot with just a single hook on them. They will hook just about as well and you can remove them from both the fish and the bottom easier.

[Pepe]

I appreciate the tips. I made the ones shown for vertical jigging. I did make some 3/4 oz slab spoons also and will try it as recommended. CindyJo provided some great info on another thread that we plan to try also.

[Old plug]

I use all spoons to vertical jig. I look for some flip flopping in a spoon.

[gitnby]

I agree with cutting off one hook off of the treble! Rare that I can't get it off of a tree limb or rock.

Another trick is to drill a 1/16" or 1/8"hole at top and/or bottom of lead.

This does 2 things:

-looks like an eye or that spot on a shad

-gives it a real different action, especially if you are yo-yo ing it back to the boat off a bluff or over trees.

[Pepe]

I agree with cutting off one hook off of the treble! Rare that I can't get it off of a tree limb or rock.

Another trick is to drill a 1/16" or 1/8"hole at top and/or bottom of lead.

This does 2 things:

-looks like an eye or that spot on a shad

-gives it a real different action, especially if you are yo-yo ing it back to the boat off a bluff or over trees.

Sounds interesting. I wasn't aware that a hole would alter the action. I will have to experiment with that. As you can probably tell, I have as much fun tinkering with the lures as I do fishing them.

[fishingaddiction]

I agree with cutting off one hook off of the treble! Rare that I can't get it off of a tree limb or rock.

Another trick is to drill a 1/16" or 1/8"hole at top and/or bottom of lead.

This does 2 things:

-looks like an eye or that spot on a shad

-gives it a real different action, especially if you are yo-yo ing it back to the boat off a bluff or over trees.

Do you drill the hole all the way through the spoon body?

Your spoons look good Danger. Have you tried them yet?

Thanks.

[Pepe]

Do you drill the hole all the way through the spoon body?

Your spoons look good Danger. Have you tried them yet?

Thanks.

I didn't spend much time working the spoon last weekend. I didn't find anything on the electronics that resemble what CindyJo has posted. I am making some with a hole drilled, though.

[Pepe]

Been playing again. A few new swimbaits in S&P, Pearl and Cayenne Pepper. Two different jigs with wire weed-guards and ringed 3.5 inch baits. A weedless "T-rig" bait on a Yamamoto ball jig. I'm hoping to try them out next weekend.