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Post by crankbait09 on Feb 3, 2011 10:56:45 GMT -4
Has anyone used the clackin minnows yet? Have any luck? I was thinking about buying a couple to try. Has anyone ever removed the tail and fished it without? Or is this one of those "why would you want to modify it" answers?  |
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Post by keesvanderlaak on Feb 3, 2011 11:38:20 GMT -4
why would you remove the tail?
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Post by crankbait09 on Feb 3, 2011 12:44:44 GMT -4
well, iv'e used skitterpops that had the tail and have no luck what so ever. i realize its a topwater lure but those tails seem to be a action prohibitor......do they even help?
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Post by Tom on Feb 3, 2011 15:29:02 GMT -4
well, iv'e used skitterpops that had the tail and have no luck what so ever. i realize its a topwater lure but those tails seem to be a action prohibitor......do they even help? They supposedly attract the fish and tempt the fish into biting. On the skitter pop they are supposed to entice the fish into biting when the lure is stationary. Whether or not they actually work i have no idea, but i can't imagine they would prohibit the lure in any way or put the fish off biting. |
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Post by keesvanderlaak on Feb 4, 2011 18:01:55 GMT -4
I never had any problem with skitterpops with a tail.. also I cant say that the tail helped me catch more then usual.
Personaly I think the tail is an additional feature to the lure without scaring the fish away or what so ever.
i've catched pike on pieces of aluminium foil in the past when i did not have the financial suplies to purchase a proper lure... nuff said.
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Post by crankbait09 on Feb 4, 2011 18:51:32 GMT -4
I never had any problem with skitterpops with a tail.. also I cant say that the tail helped me catch more then usual. Personaly I think the tail is an additional feature to the lure without scaring the fish away or what so ever. i've catched pike on pieces of aluminium foil in the past when i did not have the financial suplies to purchase a proper lure... nuff said.  , wow!! i'd like to see that presentation. do you have a picture of this home made lure??? id be interested in seeing how you did that one !!  |
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Post by keesvanderlaak on Feb 4, 2011 19:20:56 GMT -4
I never had any problem with skitterpops with a tail.. also I cant say that the tail helped me catch more then usual. Personaly I think the tail is an additional feature to the lure without scaring the fish away or what so ever. i've catched pike on pieces of aluminium foil in the past when i did not have the financial suplies to purchase a proper lure... nuff said. , wow!! i'd like to see that presentation. do you have a picture of this home made lure??? id be interested in seeing how you did that one !! I need to be honest to you, it is a long long time ago but I will get back to this asap for you. As simple as it gets, just get some led on the line with a big hook, fold the alu foil around the hook with a piece exposed. bend it so that is has a bit of action when jerked. I is very primitive but in some cases effective! Like I said before, It was at the time a pure financial thing. Rapala's are way easyer to fish with. |
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Post by Tom on Feb 5, 2011 11:02:26 GMT -4
, wow!! i'd like to see that presentation. do you have a picture of this home made lure??? id be interested in seeing how you did that one !! I need to be honest to you, it is a long long time ago but I will get back to this asap for you. As simple as it gets, just get some led on the line with a big hook, fold the alu foil around the hook with a piece exposed. bend it so that is has a bit of action when jerked. I is very primitive but in some cases effective! Like I said before, It was at the time a pure financial thing. Rapala's are way easyer to fish with. lol, i read a thing in a magazine yesterday about all kinds of people writing in to tell the magazine the weirdest things people have ever caught on. One person did actually say he caught a pike on a piece of foil. There were loads of others, including carp on a headless jelly-baby, carp on a jelly cube, carp off the surface on a piece of toffee popcorn, and the winner for me has got to be a gudgeon on a bogey for a bet!!! LOL!!! |
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Post by keesvanderlaak on Feb 5, 2011 13:09:30 GMT -4
I need to be honest to you, it is a long long time ago but I will get back to this asap for you. As simple as it gets, just get some led on the line with a big hook, fold the alu foil around the hook with a piece exposed. bend it so that is has a bit of action when jerked. I is very primitive but in some cases effective! Like I said before, It was at the time a pure financial thing. Rapala's are way easyer to fish with. lol, i read a thing in a magazine yesterday about all kinds of people writing in to tell the magazine the weirdest things people have ever caught on. One person did actually say he caught a pike on a piece of foil. There were loads of others, including carp on a headless jelly-baby, carp on a jelly cube, carp off the surface on a piece of toffee popcorn, and the winner for me has got to be a gudgeon on a bogey for a bet!!! LOL!!! Yeah, I've been catching carp on lot of different stuff. from french cheese to candy. I've heard story's about people use babypoo as flavour in theyr boilie's. If I go carpfishing because we have a closed season for pike here I always use everything that is eatable and in the house. Dog coockies, candy, corn out of a can, potato, fries. everything! And oh yeah, If carpfishing, always with the float, I don't do static with boilies. anyways, I will get back on that alu foil thing soon. |
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Post by Tom on Feb 5, 2011 13:24:48 GMT -4
Sweetcorn is great for carp, as are dog biscuits, although you can only really use them in the summer because they float. I don't fish for carp much, but when i do i usually use a freelined cube of luncheon meat, and use a stick or piece of reed as a bobbin indicator. Thats what i call back to basics! The weirdest thing i've ever caught on? A piece of wagon wheel, which for those of you who are unfamiliar, is basically a large round biscuit with marshmallow on top, coated in chocolate. I've also watched minnows eat tiny little pebbles that i dropped in, although they spit them out after a couple of seconds.
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Post by bacon on Feb 5, 2011 13:55:31 GMT -4
when i was a kid, we hit the gills on the ice so hard one day we ran out of bait (wax worms), i started trying anything else that we had in our lunches. summer sausage-caught fish, orange peel- caught fish, bread crust-caught fish(once i got enough weight to sink it), bare hook-caught fish. yep, just the plain size 16 hook dropped straight down the hole, and nibble nibble, funny to watch since the water was window clear and only about 7 ft deep. i have no doubt that alu foil will work, but it wont hold up real well vs a pike i would bet, might want to have the whole roll with ya. lol.
but to answer the main question, i dont feel that the dress treble vs undressed makes much diffence, have had fish tear off all of the dressing and fish keep biting on the now undressed lure. it the lure a slightly altered profile underwater, and is one of those things that pros mess around with for tournements to give them an edge. like trimming the skirt of a spinnerbait by half an inch, i really dont buy that it makes enough diffence to matter, but then again, im not getting paid to fish either. who knows.
bacon
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