LuckyCraft

[Ghostshad]

Does LuckyCraft make any floating jerkbaits.

[ATA]

I think if you dont reel it, they will all come to top, also smaller size hooks will help.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

JBs that are labeled sp (suspending) don't really suspend.  Right out the package most sp JBs start to float as soon as they stop moving.  The pointer minnows float to the top fairly quick.

[Munkin]

5 hours ago, GetFishorDieTryin said:

JBs that are labeled sp (suspending) don't really suspend.  Right out the package most sp JBs start to float as soon as they stop moving.  The pointer minnows float to the top fairly quick.

They are made to suspend at a certain temperature range. Warmer water they float more and colder they can sink. 

 

Allen 

[papajoe222]

I don't think Lucky Craft offers a floater. I know that Smithwick and Bagley do and the Rebel Minnow, although it isn't marketed as a JB, and original Rapala are also floaters.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

17 hours ago, Munkin said:

They are made to suspend at a certain temperature range. Warmer water they float more and colder they can sink. 

Out of the box they float to the top in January when the water is 36 and they float to the top in August when its 83.  It may take 5 or 6 seconds depending on the depth and ROR but they all float. 

[Scott F]

I use almost nothing but Lucky Craft Pointers for my springtime jerkbait fishing when the water temps are between 45-60 degrees. On a 10 day fishing trip, I’ll have one on my line about 90% of the time. Using 10lb braided line, I rarely if ever have a Pointer that floats on me.  Occasionally I’ll throw a Rapala Shadow Rap that has a slow rise on the pause which it is designed to do. The reason I primarily use Pointers is because of how well they suspend. 

[webertime]

The Bfreeze model comes in floaters.  I have a bunch of 65 sized ones.

[Smells like fish]

Try the lightning pointer 110

[GetFishorDieTryin]

On 9/5/2021 at 5:10 PM, Scott F said:

I use almost nothing but Lucky Craft Pointers for my springtime jerkbait fishing when the water temps are between 45-60 degrees. On a 10 day fishing trip, I’ll have one on my line about 90% of the time. Using 10lb braided line, I rarely if ever have a Pointer that floats on me.

If you cast a stock pointer out and work it to the middle of cast where its at its deepest then pause, it will float to the top in 30 seconds or less.  That's why Daiwa refers to them as a slow suspend.  

[J Francho]

Granted all my Pointers are a decade or more old, but they do not float.

37 minutes ago, GetFishorDieTryin said:

That's why Daiwa refers to them as a slow suspend.  

Daiwa?

[webertime]

https://thehookuptackle.com/products/bfreeze-85lb-f?_pos=2&_psq=bfree&_ss=e&_v=1.0

[Scott F]

10 hours ago, GetFishorDieTryin said:

If you cast a stock pointer out and work it to the middle of cast where its at its deepest then pause, it will float to the top in 30 seconds or less.  That's why Daiwa refers to them as a slow suspend.  

That has not been my experience. In cold water, my pauses often run 30 seconds and they don’t float up. BTW, mine are Lucky Craft Pointers, not Daiwa.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

12 hours ago, Scott F said:

That has not been my experience. In cold water, my pauses often run 30 seconds and they don’t float up. BTW, mine are Lucky Craft Pointers, not Daiwa.

Wow, sorry about that I meant LC I've got Daiwa on the brain.  I've been combing every USDM and JDM site for a particular finesse surf rod for days and its been impossible to find.  It takes a half or a little more then half of a suspend strip depending on the JB for whatever reason they all have slightly different balance. Its not just LC either, Vision 110s/Jrs, Duo JBS/Rozantes, Xraps are labeled SP but stock they have a slow rise. 

[txchaser]

While we are on the luckycraft topic, anyone know where to get pointer 158's? They seem to be out of stock everywhere. 

[WRB]

Daiwa TD minnows were floaters, LC Pointers I had all suspend using mono or FC line.

Tom

PS, 36 degree water is lighter density then 39 degree water, the reason ice floats.

 

[Munkin]

On 9/9/2021 at 12:28 PM, GetFishorDieTryin said:

Wow, sorry about that I meant LC I've got Daiwa on the brain.  I've been combing every USDM and JDM site for a particular finesse surf rod for days and its been impossible to find.  It takes a half or a little more then half of a suspend strip depending on the JB for whatever reason they all have slightly different balance. Its not just LC either, Vision 110s/Jrs, Duo JBS/Rozantes, Xraps are labeled SP but stock they have a slow rise. 

 

Yes, they all will eventually sink or float up. If I cast out a LC Pointer and reel it down to depth I cannot come back in a week to it still suspended.

 

LC labeling:

SP= Suspending

F = Floating

S = Sinking

EXS = Extra fast sinking that you will only see on saltwater baits.

 

Allen

[GetFishorDieTryin]

15 minutes ago, Munkin said:

 

Yes, they all will eventually sink or float up. If I cast out a LC Pointer and reel it down to depth I cannot come back in a week to it still suspended.

 

Allen

A week?  Try coming back in 30 or 45 seconds you would get the same result with a stock pointer.