A few hours with the Ned

[Deadstream]

About this little guy.   Serious.   The Zman  2.75 looks long.    Doty gave me one a few years back that was shorter and split.  I'm going to give the thing a try when I get back up North.   Is it a rock/mud only bait or will it work in grass/weeds/ lilly pads?   

[Macsimus]

Glad to hear you got your boat back QB. I was getting a little weary of that steady diet of humble pie while you were fishing from the bank.

And Muddy, Nice One!!

[likinmo]

Im from MO your gonna have to SHOW-ME...No big fish can come on a NED!! LOL!

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, 96 CHAMP said:

you guys been hitting them pretty good, they'll all be hook shy by the time we all get down there. 

Nah, we haven't been more than a mile from any ramps.  The other day fishing from the bank, after fishing for a while, I caught some with fresh hook holes in them.  I can't be sure but I think either I or Muddy had caught those fish earlier in the day. 

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, Deadstream said:

About this little guy.   Serious.   The Zman  2.75 looks long.    Doty gave me one a few years back that was shorter and split.  I'm going to give the thing a try when I get back up North.   Is it a rock/mud only bait or will it work in grass/weeds/ lilly pads?   

I have seen reports on the national fishing boards on guys catching them on the Ned up north.  I guess you'd have to swim it through those weeds.  Might be worth trying some of the small swimming baits Z-man makes.

[Macsimus]

1 hour ago, Deadstream said:

 I'm going to give the thing a try when I get back up North.   Is it a rock/mud only bait or will it work in grass/weeds/ lilly pads?   

You definitely owe it to yourself to do that. I've had excellent success with it on hard bottom and deep weedlines. I've never thrown it in heavy veg because I'm always fishing it on light line but also because I feel like that little bait would just get lost on a soft, mucky bottom with all the decaying vegetation. Not only that, but in milfoil and coontail, it's never going to reach the bottom and I usually like a bait (eg jig/trailer, brush hog) that moves a little water to let them know it's there. About the only veg that I can think of that grows on a clean bottom is reeds and getting a fish out of those can be a real challenge. I suppose you could try braid.

[Smalls21]

I thought the NED just caught dinks

[Quillback]

18 minutes ago, Smalls21 said:

I thought the NED just caught dinks

Truth be told it will catch you some dinks.  My saying on that is that It gives you something to do while waiting for the big one to bite.

[dtrs5kprs]

3 hours ago, Deadstream said:

About this little guy.   Serious.   The Zman  2.75 looks long.    Doty gave me one a few years back that was shorter and split.  I'm going to give the thing a try when I get back up North.   Is it a rock/mud only bait or will it work in grass/weeds/ lilly pads?   

It's great in grass. Just drop down to 1/16oz or less on the head, swim it more than dead sticking it. Also look at running the finesse shadz on it, or a cut down finesse wormz.

We flip it in pads in little lakes around KC during the summer. Same 6# setup. It's a hoot.

On the length... I'll measure a TRD and a cut stick and put a pic up. The TRD is stubby. Entirely possible someone could miscut a Zinkerz or Zero to make it longer. Or overstretch it. As planned, I don't think they're any longer than 3" at most.

[dtrs5kprs]

24 minutes ago, Smalls21 said:

I thought the NED just caught dinks

Hardly. It just doesn't discriminate. Keeps you interested.

If you are on good ones, they will eat it just as fast as the little ones, and faster than most other baits.

One a jig customer in NC sent in a month or two ago. That's the Hula Stickz.