Slug Go

[Senko lover]

Somebody gave me a bag of about 50 bubble-gum pink Slug Gos. Oldertimers: can you fill me in on what these are?? They seem like a fluke. Any differences?

[Weld's Largemouth]

saltwater striped bass 

[Smokinal]

 Oldertimers

What are you trying to say? lol

Ya, they are kind of a cross between a fluke and a senko actually. I used to do well with them. And, yes, the larger sizes work well on stripers but the regular (5" I think) work well on largemouth and smallies.

[A-Jay]

The First "Stick" bait I ever fished.

 

Fish it like a Senko: Weightless Texas rigged - Or ever wacky with a small weight.

Can be presented on a jig head, a Drop shot, a Carolina rig, and just about any other way you can think to rig it.

 

That Bubblegum is a Killer Smallmouth color btw - especially Pre-Spawn.

 

Good Luck

 

A-Jay

[Master Bait'r]

That's great!  Which size?  The tiny ones (3.5") are killer for drop shot or t-rig for river smallies/trout.  The larger ones (4"iirc?) I strictly use for weightless t-rig and a soft jerking/fluttering dying baitfish imitation.  They absolutely slay.  I love Slug-gos.  They have such a great erratic darting action, and nothing moves quite like them.  They whip around in a very unique way when you work them.   Nice and weedles too.  So easy the kids even crush with them, and the plastic is nice and durable.  Rainbow trout, baby bass, alewife, purple passion(?), methiolate...  They have so many good colors to choose from.  

 

 

If you like the action of them though, I highly recommend picking up some Slug-go SS finesse worms too.  They have the same front end as the smaller model and have a nice slim whip tail.  The action hunts so hard and the tail whips so nice it stays in the strike zone forever and makes a huge commotion.  I think the SSs are even better actually.  Wicked good for unweighted T-rig and for shaky head, very durable and they give you a ton per bag.  Two bass thumbs way up.   

[slonezp]

Old-timers...Slug-go was "the bait" before senkos and flukes

[Senko lover]

^^ That is why I said oldertimers. No offense meant, I mean hey, I'm trying to learn from your wisdom 

 

Thanks guys. I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy fishing them. 

[MemphisFF]

I don't understand I'm only 39 I used them as a teenager.. What are you saying? Lol

[Jrob78]

I fished Sluggos before I even knew what a Fluke was.  Fish them just like a weightless Fluke.   Great baits.

[F14A-B]

I'm to old to remember, ah yes, slug- o, that's what Popeye the Sailor man did to sea hag!

[Glenn]

Old-timers...Slug-go was "the bait" before senkos and flukes

^^ Yup ^^

Work them similar to a Senko, except you need to give it some action.  So give it small, gentle tugs, pausing in between.  Really it's a very subtle jerkbait.  Just use the reel to twitch it, not the rod.  Move it a few inches, let it settle down, and twitch it again.

 

It will dart and dance, until they just can't stand it anymore.  Then BOOM! 

 

I still have a bunch in the boat, and use them whenever I feel the bass are too accustomed to seeing Senkos.

[Bluebasser86]

Geez, when did I become an old timer?? 

 

3" slugO is a killer dropshot bait, or just on a little jighead for bass and crappie. The bigger versions were deadly too.  

[smalljaw67]

When I discovered the Slug-o is was 1986 or 87, and there was a 4.5" baby slug-o and a 6" version. The slug-o is the original soft plastic jerkbait and the fluke is actually based on the slug-o but to me they are 2 different baits. The bubblegum slug-o won a ton of tournaments here in the northeast, what guys did was fish weed edges and lily pad fields with them. What you did was you make a cast to thepads and keep your rod tip high and when the bait hit you would reel it quickly over the pads and when you got good you could make it stop on one of the pads on the outside edge and then let it rest there. After 5 seconds or so you would easy the slug-o off the pad and watch it sink, normally it would get about 6" when a bass would come up and just eat it, that worked so well bubblegum got very hard to find. Once the fluke came out nobody threw the slug-o anymore but it is still as deadly today as it was back then. Here is the difference in baits as I see it, the slug-o is more of a darting bait and can be worked a tad bit faster than the fluke because the fluke comes to the surface just a bit faster but both are similar in that they both will come to the top when worked fast. As I said, the slug-o darts when you pop your rod and then stops quickly and then slowly sinks and the fluke tends to glide a bit further when you stop twitching and the darting action is a little slower, it is one of the reasons guys gravitated to the fluke as the slower movement worked a little better on pressured fish but to me the slug-o seemed to draw larger fish. Give those bubblegum slug-o baits a shot, not an early spring bait but more of a summer deal and when the weeds come up that is when that bait becomes deadly.

[Mass Bassin']

Their like the original fluke, I would fish them in the spawn because the bright pink will tick off the bass. This theory works around here but the pink may not have the same affect where you are.

[Senko lover]

I measured them last night; they're about 6 1/2 inches, so pretty long. If I want to downsize I could probably just snip off a coupla inches off the tail. But hopefully these'll be seeing some use.

Thanks again for the help.

[Master Bait'r]

Geez, when did I become an old timer?? 

 

3" slugO is a killer dropshot bait, or just on a little jighead for bass and crappie. The bigger versions were deadly too.  

 

 

 

Pretty sure OP is a younger teenager so it's all relative.   

 

 

 

It's funny though, I'm only 32 and my gf has two kids- 8 & 10.  I hadn't ever felt old until one day they asked me "Were you really born way back in the 1900s??"  

 

 

I thought about it for a second and had to answer yes.  I had never felt so old in my life.  I really was born 'way back when' in the 1900s- before the internet and mobile phones- which is the ultimate "old person" litmus test for young kids these days apparently.  Tell them there was no such thing as a mobile phone or the internet when you were a kid and they act like you churned butter by whale oil lamplight to pass the time haha

[Master Bait'r]

I measured them last night; they're about 6 1/2 inches, so pretty long. If I want to downsize I could probably just snip off a coupla inches off the tail. But hopefully these'll be seeing some use.

Thanks again for the help.

 

 

You can, but they work better full profile.  Just get some #5 EWGs, t-rig them and work them around laydowns with some nice subtle, erratic jerkbait tugs.  It's only a matter of time.  

[WRB]

Sluggo is a Lunker City lure and was introduced in the mid 80's with a 6" size. Pink or bubble gum would indicate a mid 90's color popular for weightless presentations back then.

Where Sluggo excels is a Scrounger jig trailer.

Lunker City has lead nail weight that are designed to weight the Sluggo so it sinks at whatever rate you add weight to achieve rate of fall the bass desire, then it fished as a soft jerk bait using EWG hook. The nail weight is inserted through the side between the nose and where the hook bend will be and you cut off the excess length, use the cut off pieces as needed. Today we have keel weighted EWG hooks used for soft swimbaits that should work good with a Sluggo.

Tom

[skeeter1980]

I used sluggos when they first came out.I guess dat makes me old.Lol.I still have a few packs,and my son loves using dem.

[Crestliner2008]

Those 6" pinkys are just great for smallmouth. Lunker City makes a weird angled off-set hook for them too, which makes a good combo. Fish them just like any soft jerkbait. When you kill it.....it shimmies down, like a Senko.

 

Put one a jig head and they are dynamite for lake trout too. I've been drop shotting the small size for many years now and it's almost as good as a Roboworm, as far as being a consistent producer is concerned.

[Bluebasser86]

Pretty sure OP is a younger teenager so it's all relative.   

 

 

 

It's funny though, I'm only 32 and my gf has two kids- 8 & 10.  I hadn't ever felt old until one day they asked me "Were you really born way back in the 1900s??"  

 

 

I thought about it for a second and had to answer yes.  I had never felt so old in my life.  I really was born 'way back when' in the 1900s- before the internet and mobile phones- which is the ultimate "old person" litmus test for young kids these days apparently.  Tell them there was no such thing as a mobile phone or the internet when you were a kid and they act like you churned butter by whale oil lamplight to pass the time haha

Back in the day when we walked 15 miles to school, uphill both ways, and we liked it!

 

I'm only 28, but I feel like I'm from a different planet than kids today. 

[Alpha Male]

I fished Sluggos before I even knew what a Fluke was.  Fish them just like a weightless Fluke.   Great baits.

 

 

I texas rigged Slug-gos before I knew what a texas rig was. I thought I was some visionary until my dad said, "we used to do that back in the day".  I was 9 or so when, for christmas I was given a cabelas mail order catalog and the total $ amount was already filled in and I spent a couple of weeks deciding what to order. 

[Glenn]

Here's the lowdown on how to fish them:

 

 

[padon]

listen whipper snapper.lol. they were the fluke and the senko before the fluke and the senko. when they first came out they absolutely mauled fish. they still work. use them like a fluke but maybe a little more subtle action. the dart , stop . sink, glide , dart. killer bait. the pink works really good spawn and post spawn.

[fishingtx]

On 3/15/2015 at 5:57 PM, Senko lover said:

Oldertimers:

Whoa whoa whoa, I'm not an old timer but I'm pretty dang sure they were some of the first soft plastic jerkbaits. I use them in rainbow trout and pink bubble-gum. They are better than flukes!