What is your favourite lure, jig or bait???

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Here is a question for all our board visitor’s (US and otherwise).

Your going away on a trip (to your favourite fishing spot) for seven whole days. While your their, your only source of food is the fish you can catch, and a small bag of rice.

Matches for the fire, and all other basic things, are provided.

But, there is a catch (of another kind)! You can only take “one” lure, jig or bait with you along with your favourite reel, rod and line.

Not one of each kind, just one “single” lure, jig or bait and that has to last you the whole week.

Think about it! … What would that be and why?
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Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Jerry

For inshore work I have to agree and say that your a man after my own heart. If you were here in Oz, A Pro SW guide friend of mine would be smiling from ear to ear hearing those words.

If I was going anywhere, except on Capt.Dan’s boat (or some one else’s much futher south that Hawaii), then that would be my choice too. Also has to have a Mustad 34184 jig hook in it. The only ones to use in SW IMO.

My only concern would be if the bucktail would last the full 7 days knowing how much I eat!

By the way, if your reading this post and want to see some great articles written by Jerry then drop over to:

http://www.noreast.com and have a look under the MA section, plus the “how to article” section. Lots of experienced tips, facts and straight up fishing talk.

So I wonder how many other anglers we have cruising past this post who would like to tell us about their favourite?

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Aloha Capt. Dan

What do you reckon it is about those skirt colours? Lot’s of silouhette behind them, similar to local baifish colours, water type/depth, a mixture of these and other factors.

Want to give us the Hawaiin heads up?

In the Western Pacific it’s either white or a burnt shade of yellow (skirts), jig heads or lures, in many places.

Got me real curious this colour thing and how it differs so much from place to place..

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Well, since I fish more freshwater than salt, I’d have to say that my lucky “Las Vegas” lure would be it. I’m not sure who makes it, but a buddy of mine turned me on to one a few years ago and I’ve been lucky enough to catch 3 to 7 pound Alpers on it every year in the Eastern Sierras. My friend, Mike, has done the same. Heading up this weekend to see if we can do it again.

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troutman = half trout / half man

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No worries Troutman.

Sounds like a real producer and especially trout of that size.

That little dynamite lure would not happen to be bladed as well would it?

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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I have 2 depending on depth of fishing.
For topwater its the Pop-R.
Its (plop-plop-plop-SMASH) , nuff said.

For subsurface, its a jig rigged with a chompers twintail spider grub. This is deadly on bass almost all year. If everything fails, and the boat is sinking, its my go-to bait..

:laughing:

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G’day Rob and glad you have joined us.

So does that mean when “push comes to shove”, and bearing in mind that you can only choose one, that the jig & chomper tail is the “lure, jig or bait” of choice?

And what about chomper colours, is there a preference as well?

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Yep,
My go-to would be a 4-inch chomper twintail in pumpkinseed.
Its heavy enough to be used with no weight and drop falls very slow. With a weight, I sometimes use a small splitshot above the hook. The tentacles of the bait cover the weight, and the fish don’t seem to mind..

:laughing:

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No worries

Down here we called that technique “slow drop angling” where the soft plastic and hook weight are just off being neutrally bouyant.

Favourite species you like to target using this approach?

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Hey Steve, A white bucktail, catches everything. Thats why there in most survival kits on lift rafts.
TIGHT LINES,TIM

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Oh yeah!

I like the sound of that. Down here we call that “a slow drop rig” Rob. Drops real easy and keeps the angler in the stike zone for a long time.

Do you use it in fresh, salt, or both? Either way, a deadly approach and especially with that twin tail. Lots of bait action to match.

Burnin Thumbs!

Steve - The MJB
BFT Lures/Baits
http://www.demonjigs.com

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Steve,
A little long getting back on this…:wink:

IMO, the Blue matches the Bait color, our Waters our Purple Blue & the fish, All sizes tend to be Blue.
Most, even those who fish Blue water often in other locals mention how Blue the water can be in Hawaii when they see it.

I just had out some folk from Japan, we caught some Skipjack tuna, they were Surprised how Blue they were, they said they catch them All the time down / over there & the ones there aren’t nearly as blue they said.

With the skirts on my Blue jet, after it soaks a while, it looks like the same Blue as many of the fish here.
Yamashita Squid Skirts…#9*G12

On a few colors, I have noticed it makes a Big difference after they soak a while & the color seems to change a little, you might of seen the skirts with half some color & half silver, some brands, the silver will turn a milky color…I `think it’s the Yamashita skirts that turn color.
THAT’S what I like, the ALL Blue skirt I use on the jet, kinda the same but not silver but it’ll get a milkyish hue to it.

I have a PINK lure that could compete with the blue jet, that one I might think it’s contrast, not many PINK fish on the surface.

But… have ya ever seen the picture of a Red Bird in a Very green forest..?
It sticks out very well.

But, when ya see the Exact same pix in Black & White…the bird Disappears …
So, it could be the hue in the gray scale of color..?

Heck… I don’t Know…:astonished:… I just know my Blue jet & my Pink lure are # 1 & 2 by years end…
All fish … All Sizes…

:slight_smile: ALOHA</font color=red> :sunglasses:

Dan
Stand Up!!!

Stand Up Fish`N Charters Kauai Hawai
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well for me it would have to be a 1/8 oz lead head jig with a yellow twister tail on it , it could be used on both sunny as well as overcast days . just about any kind of presintation would work from bottom bouncing , slow retrive , ar a fast ride in , any one would get a fishes attention , and if the tail was damaged it could still be modified to resemble a grub or used to hold any terestial found in the vicinity .

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my favorits lure, though I havent seen it in any store for at least 25 years is a 4 inch, beer collored thin diving repalla. (it floated but when reeled or trolled it would dive)

I used it so much that the diving fin fell off one day in the lake. broken hearted, I was realy bummed, fortunatly for me at that time we had a product on the market called beer cans, unlike the beer cans of today these cans had a thing called a pull tab that pulled off the can,

I proke the thab off the pull ring and epoxied the tab wher the diving used to be. with a little bending and I had the lure dansing in the watter doing barrol rolls, diving or skimming just under the top of the water’s edge.

It had become my favorite lure when I hooked in to a 17 inch crappie on the 3rd of july 1977. this lure was always a hot lure for bass.

I eventualy lost that lure to the fish gods of the deep,

the moral of the story is if you find a lure that works buy a dozen of them. (life time supply) ten years down the road you may not find the same lure on the market ever again.

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INOVATION AT IT’S BEST ! AS KIDS WE USE TO USE THEM AS SPINNERS TOO ! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE CHAINS AND CURTINS PEOPLE USED TO MAKE WITH THEM AS WELL ?
THIS WOULD BE ONE HOT TACKLE TIP IF THEY WERE STILL AROUND , BUT I BET YOU CAN STILL CUT THEN OFF THE CANS IF YOU USED PLIERS TO PULL THEM OUT FIRST!

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ripplin redfin. Why? Because if there are fish to be caught the redfin will catch them. That’s why

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simply a gold colored kastmaster,3/4 oz. by far, I’ve caught more varieties of salt/freshwater fish in my life.From trout-to-monster halibut..inshore freshwater/saltwater about 25+ varieties in a spring session of 3 locations,fishing 8 days.

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I would have to go with a Terminator T2 series spinnerbait

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The lure for me would have to be a Panther Martin Gold Spinner! These suckers rock when it comes to bass, trout, and pike!

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First of all it sounds like most people big lakes or salt water.

Second if I was hiking 20 miles into a lakes then I’d have to take some old earth worms. I’ve never met a fish that didn’t like one.

By the end of the trip I’d be starving or dead because trout taste so bad.