Favorite way to fish a slug-go?

[snake95]

I've only been fishing for bass seriously for a few years, and so the slug-go seems like a relic from a previous time to me.  You don't see them much in North Georgia (at least I don't).

 

My understanding is that they have a long history with bass anglers.  

 

 

I first heard of them when I was inshore fishing from a jetty in New England and a guy in a small boat putted by and told me he was throwing them for stripers and blues.

 

Picked up a few bags of 7" slug-go's.

 

My questions:

 

Are these things stick baits or flukes? 

 

Texpose with/without weight, wacky, neko, swimbait hook, or maybe jighead?

 

When would you chose these over a stickbait, fluke, or perhaps a worm?

 

Why don't we seem to hear much about them relative to newer baits, but they still seem to have a following?

 

Interested to hear what everyone does with these things...

 

 

 

 

 

[padon]

They were the fore runner of the fluke.the original soft stick bait. My favorite way to fish them is texposed weightless. Kinda like a fluke but with fewer jerks and more of a slow glide pause.

[Scott F]

If you want to give them a name, I think you should call them jerkbaits. Unweighted or with small nail weights, they will behave erratically like a jerkbait pretty much the same way a stick bait (Senko) will behave if you T rig the Senko. To me, if you use too much weight or with a jig, they lose the jerkbait action pretty much the same way a Senko loses it's jerkbait action when you put them on a jig or wacky rig it.

Just like any soft plastic, you can rig them anyway you like. If it catches fish for you, you aren't doing it wrong.

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10 hours ago, snake95 said:

I've only been fishing for bass seriously for a few years, and so the slug-go seems like a relic from a previous time to me.  You don't see them much in North Georgia (at least I don't).

 

My understanding is that they have a long history with bass anglers.  

 

 

I first heard of them when I was inshore fishing from a jetty in New England and a guy in a small boat putted by and told me he was throwing them for stripers and blues.

 

Picked up a few bags of 7" slug-go's.

 

My questions:

 

Are these things stick baits or flukes? 

 

Texpose with/without weight, wacky, neko, swimbait hook, or maybe jighead?

 

When would you chose these over a stickbait, fluke, or perhaps a worm?

 

Why don't we seem to hear much about them relative to newer baits, but they still seem to have a following?

 

Interested to hear what everyone does with these things...

 

 

 

 

 

The 4 1/2 sluggo was one of my go to baits in up state NY. I threw it on 8 lb mono spinning. I'd cast it or pitched it all over the place. It shines in shallower water, as it sinks slower than the newer soft jerkbaits. I think it fell out of favor because it doesn't cast as well as some other similar baits. The striper guys started "eel rigging" the larger ones almost immediately, and they work great. It even spawned baits like Hogy, RonZ and others. I still have a bunch of the US made 2/0 "sluggo hooks" I use for a bunch of plastics. I like casting and let it sink, or a jerkbait retieve with long pauses. 

[SWVABass]

I fish a 3in and 4in on a drop shot kills smallies

[Russ E]

in the early 90's, the Sluggo was my go to tournament bait for catching a limit on clear water lakes. used both the 7 inch and 4 inch. 

I switched over to the fluke design, when it came to market.

they both work. the reason I switched to the fluke is it is easier to Texpose straight, it has a better action, and it seems a little more durable.

 

[Crestliner2008]

Sluggos are productive bass lures, without a question. Rigged as a jerk bait you can catch a wide variety of species on them. One of my "go-to" presentations for summer smallmouth fishing is to drop shot the 3" Sluggo, nose hooked. For whatever reason, smallies love it presented in that fashion.

 

Use the 8" on a 3/4 oz. banana head, bucktailed jig (white jig w/pink Sluggo) and you'll kill the deep water, summertime lake trout on light gear. (Shhhhhhh!)

 

Sluggos are extremely versatile.

[WRB]

7" Sluggo would make a good trailer for 3/4 oz Scronger jig (Tremor), I prefer using 6" on 1/2 Scroungers.

Tom

[snake95]

Very interesting information.  Thanks a lot, guys.  I might keep some of these big slug-go's for inshore fishing but will also give them a try for bass in the spring.

 

[smalljaw67]

I have a bunch of the 4.5" Baby Slug-Os and to me they are different than a fluke. I got on the Slug-O early, late 80s when they came out and in '92 I tried them for smallmouth in the Susquehanna river, wasn't sure how they would work in moving water. 134 fish and 33 destroyed slug-os on the floor of my boat told me all I needed to know and I've been a fan since. The Slug-o is more erratic than the fluke or super fluke and is a good choice to coax neutral fish in to chasing but the fluke has a better "dying" action that works on those lethargic fish that are unwilling to chase. Both are interchangeable and I think having both is essential. There are times the fish will show preference to one over the other, I don't use the 7" version, I use the 4.5" and 6" versions and they both work well so I'm sure the larger one will have no issues getting bit.

[Mike L]

11 hours ago, WRB said:

7" Sluggo would make a good trailer for 3/4 oz Scronger jig (Tremor), I prefer using 6" on 1/2 Scroungers.

Tom

Ditto 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[ohboyitsrobby]

2 biggest fish I've ever personally seen were caught on a slug-go about 25 years ago weightless t-rigged. I didn't even know they were still made until a couple months ago.

[Bankbeater]

I have always had luck fishing them around grass.  The bass seem to like the darker colored Sluggo more in the water I fish.

[crypt]

still use em, weightless,texas rigged mostly. sometime will throw smaller 4 incher when saltwater fishing, trout,redfish love em.

 

[Beagles5]

Can anyone help me fine 3” slug-go lures?   Looking for the albino color

[WRB]

Don Iovino made Little Sluggers 3 1/2 but no longer making any soft plastics. You may be able to find them on eBay.

Tom

[tholmes]

Slug-Gos - Lunker City

 

Tom

[Glenn]

 

[bowhunter63]

4.5 weightless. Arkansas shiner color