Painting jerkbaits for big trout

The Cultiva Zip n Ziggy is better than the Zara Puppy. About the same size, but a little fatter. Change out the stock hooks. Has anyone tried an S Waver or a Bull Shad on the White or Taney? That might be interesting.

 

 

I find the ZP too light to throw accurately.  The step up to the Spook Jr. does the job perfectly and if you think it's too big you're fooling yourself.  

The Ziggy is a spin rod bait..tosses fine on an ML....I don't toss it on a bait caster. Spook Jr. is about the average size of my topwater casting lures. Like the big Storm Arashi walker allot. Super loud rattle...

 

YoZuri Wall N Dog is a fine choice for creeks. It’s been out of production for a decade. 

Lucky Craft Gunfish 75 is another Great finesse Topwater 

I throw spooks, and they catch fish, but I had a few puppies I really loved.  They'd catch the sunfish and even chubs.  With some of our creeks it wasn't about the size we were trying to catch.  

I like the LC Gunfish allot, but have had the same Mega Dog X tied on my finesse casting top water rod for the last couple of years. It gets changed out occasionally, then it gets tied back on before the next trip. Have caught hundreds on  6-7 favorite baits. Will swim to recover  them.

 

Had some clients that wanted to try for bigger fish this morning so I put them on the sculpin signature series.  They landed a dozen or so bows, hooked up and lost 4 big browns and landed one brown at 23.5 inches.

That early morning bite still on fire?  Nice to see them cleaning up on the Sculpins!

It was good yesterday 

Caught some nice bows this morning on both the sculpin flavored and rainbow flavored baits.

Been trying to get the next batch of sculpin flavored done for over a week now.  They should be ready to fish tomorrow.