soft plastic bait tip

[gofshn]

Alot of my experience has been inshore saltwater and guiding in freshwater, offshore has been kinda sporadic until the last few years but i am like a sponge and generally try to retain it all. here is a little tip for those of you who use soft plastics inshore, aquire some menhaden oil and a syringe, get a medium size needle and inject the soft plastic bait in several places with menhaden oil and then pitch it out in your favorite red hole. tried this a few years ago when i thought about it just sitting in the room at the old sundowner motel, and found it to be devastating on the drum, trout, and flounder in the middle marshes and the haystacks the next day. my buddy had no clue as to what i was doing different until i told him, trust me, it works. i am sure you all know that you can also use an iv fluid ringer bag with a standard thumbwheel flow control (if anyone is in the medical field or an emt, it is easy to acquire) to dispense menhaden oil when cobia fishing on anchor, the slick is fantastic and when you are through, just refill and throw in the cooler or throw away. this is a lot cheaper than the glory hole dripper that i used to use.


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[Jesse Lockowitz]

Great post.

If you dont mind me hi-jackin ur thread a lil i got a good soft plastic tip too.



This is for all of you grubs, shads, lil fishies and stuff. dont do this with gulps.


Ever had trout bitin really good , but there are bluefish mixed in with them? and they grab ahold of your grub , and tear it off.

The Answer????

BABY OIL

baby oil? yep, baby oil..

get a tupper ware container, fill 1/2 with baby oil, then , drop your curly tails in their ,and let them sit for a few weeks.

when you take them back out, you can rinse them in a light dish soap/water solution, and then simply put them back in ur bag.

they harden in the baby oil. they do NOT lose their tail action, they are just simply more durable.

Saves you money on them pesky blues. and keeps you from changin grubs every few fish,

[gofshn]

good tip jesse i will have to try it.

[Madchark]

Never heard of the baby oil trick, will clean out the med. closet and give it a try.

[Capt-D]

Two Great tips Guys! This is what its about! Any more soft bait
tips people!

-D

[gofshn]

of course you can always do the obvious and easy method of pouring some menhaden oil into a ziploc with your baits.

[Jesse Lockowitz]

hrm, heres kind of a tip.


Anyone fish with large bucktails? upwards of 2ozs? for stripers, and cobia?

I DO.


and im SURE that if anyone else does, that a majority of them tip them with a big fat curly tail grub, or eel tail , or somethin like that.


well i do that to. but. when i go to put a big curly tail on one of my homemade 3oz bucktails, i dont put the whole thing on. that takes away so much of the hook gap.

cut a majority of the round party of the grub off. and only put abot an inch of the round section onto the hook, this will leave you with ALOT more hook gap.


also, this is another bucktail tip.

alot of bucktails, come with the actually fur part, hangin a few inches behind the curve of the hook.

i trim off that hair with a pair of scissors, until there is only about ( ) behind the hook.

this way, if a fish just wants the back end, he gets stuck.

just somethin i do ;-)

im off from school today, and only thing im doing is going to the camp lejune and building the mounts for my rod rack on my truck, so ill try to think of other little stuff that i do or can think of.



Jesse Of Bogue

[BBunker]

Better than Shedder crab? Just something I tried a "few" years ago when the Weakfish were in the Del. Bay.

Get a couple paks of ear plugs. The ones that are cut into cylinders, that have open cells on the sides.( I believe they are HEAR brand).
Take a piece of piano wire & bend a hairpin at 1 end. Tie your hook on the leader with your favorite knot. Next, work the hairpin end of your piano wire through the center of the earplug lengthwise. Pass the tag end of your leader through the wire loop & pull the leader through the plug. Slide the plug down the leader so it's right in front of the hook. Now you can tie a loop onto the end of your leader.

Get a bottle of shedder oil, Bunker oil or whatever liquid scent you like. Simply squeeze the plug & add a few drops of oil on it! The plug will hold the scent a long time + it lifts the bait up off the bottom! I just dress the hook with a squid strip for a lil wiggle.

A hell of alot cheaper than shedder crabs & it's worked like a charm for me!

[deaks]

Hey Guys Some Nice Tips here,

Not sure if I like the baby oil idea though but I can see why you do it.

I am fairly particular with my soft plastics, I put a fair amount effort into getting the baits action correct I think that is the mosr important as dragging and spiraling lurse can be a deterant.
Also a good idea is to have two seperate tackle boxes one for saltwater and one for freshwater.
If you are not having anyluck with soft plastics then try spraying abit of scent attractant on them to stir up the fish a little.

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Bass Assassin Soft Plastics

[Honey Hole]

A little drop of super glue on the hook shank, next to the lead head.. then push your plastic on. Keeps it from getting pulled down the hook... works on everything from a 3" grub to a 12" Shad.