Physically Demanding Lures And/or Techniques

[Ratherbfishing]

What, in your opinion, are the most physically demaning lures or techniques?  I guess I would say the larger deep diving crankbaits and jerkbaits.  Both leave my forearms and wrists worn out and sore after a few hours-especially jerkbaits.  I'd fish them more if I wasn't so beat up by them.

[roadwarrior]

Casting the Alabama Rig or huge swimbaits.

[Scarborough817]

big spoons would probably be up there

[rippin-lips]

Toss a 3-5oz bait for 2hrs. Your jerkbait will seem like sunshine and rainbows after that. I can't even imagine the guys who throw the big swimbaits that weigh 6-8oz or more all day long.

[Raul]

Anything big and heavy call it Bama Rigs, big swim baits, deep n´extra deep diving cranks, big willow leaf spinnerbaits and such.

[bigbill]

I'm not sure if the lures are demanding but I think the faster reel ratio is taxing me more energy wise. I'm beat at the end of the trip with a 6.3:1 spinning reel.

Lure that's demanding tossing the 9" castiac trout lure on a inshore setup.

[Dwight Hottle]

big spoons would probably be up there

 

Yes the Nichols Ben Parker magnum flutters spoons area whole lot of work. Not just casting a 3.5 oz bait but the rod stokes working the spoon will flat wear you out. Worse then casting & retrieving a 10XD crankbait.  

[MarkH024]

Any sort of double cowgirl musky bait with #10 blades.  It's like pulling a drift sock through the water. 

[poisonokie]

Toss a 3-5oz bait for 2hrs. Your jerkbait will seem like sunshine and rainbows after that. I can't even imagine the guys who throw the big swimbaits that weigh 6-8oz or more all day long.

 

I know it, even a big single colorado spinnerbait can take it out of you after a while.

[smalljaw67]

My killers are jerkbaits and burning 1/2oz spinnerbaits but it is usually in early Fall or late Spring when these are a problem. The reason is I'm really aggressive with the jerkbaits at those times so there isn't the long pause you normally use in cold water. The spinnerbaits at that time are tough because if you are burning it and get bit, there is a good chance that bite last most of the day if not all day.

[Scott F]

Walking a Zara Spook for a few hours makes my wrists and fore arms sore. My buddies who fish muskies with baits that can weigh over a pound and huge double bladed bucktails think they've got it easy when they switch to baits that only weigh a few ounces.

[ww2farmer]

For me, deep cranking, jerkbaits, and walking a frog/spook.........I can do all of that stuff for a couple hours at a time fine, it's when I have yanked on that jerkbait for 12+ hours a day because they were biting it and nothing else, or frogging every day, all day for a week that I start to get worn out.

[Dogmatic]

Big cranks, big swimbaits, big spoons, loaded a-rigs. All some of my favorite techniques!

[Jrob78]

Trying to burn big, double bladed spinnerbaits wears me out.   Heavy weighted A-rigs aren't much fun to cast all day either.

[thirtysixit]

Yes the Nichols Ben Parker magnum flutters spoons area whole lot of work. Not just casting a 3.5 oz bait but the rod stokes working the spoon will flat wear you out. Worse then casting & retrieving a 10XD crankbait.  

 I've never fished a spoon before... It looks exhausting.  But I have thrown a 1oz stick bait all day before.  My forearms were killing me, as well as my grip.

[Catch and Grease]

Flipping big 1-2oz weights in heavy cover all day can put a hurting on you if you ain't used to it!

[A-Jay]

 SIX DAYS of First Launching and then Grinding in a Lucky Craft SKT Magnum 120 Mag DR Crankbait got my attention.

 

Especially in the 105 degree heat of the Mexican Summer Sun . . . .

 

 

A-Jay

[Catt]

3 herniated disc, torn ligaments, sciatia nerve pain, rheumatoid arthritis, calcium deposits, to name a few.

Every technique hurts!

[MarkH024]

Suddenly, this turned into the Jaws scene. "show me the way to go home....im tired and i wanna go to bed."

[flyfisher]

nothing in conventional fishing has worn me out so far but i do get a little fatigued when I am casting a 10wt fly rod all day long, and even more so if it isn't a balanced set up.

[K_Mac]

Just reading this thread has exhausted me. I am going to bed.

[buzzed bait]

I don't throw a lot of these big baits mentioned so for me it's a spook type bait or spinnerbaits

[scaleface]

I've worked up a sweat a few times ripping crankbaits . I retrieve it by ripping hard rand long reel  up the slack and repeat . Bomber Flat A's work well fished this way .

[Josh Smith]

The way I fish jigs tends to be tiring.

Josh

[Cgrinder]

Ripping lipless cranks out of grass seems to get me.