Plastics

[Big Hands]

3 hours ago, Catt said:

Caught on a McDonald's Chicken Mcnugget!

 

[TOXIC]

Sometimes we overthink this stuff.  My friend who was raised on St Clair and passed away a few years ago once told me he could catch a smallmouth on a cigarette butt.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a shoestring.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a gummy worm candy…..you guessed it, he did it. 

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13 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Sometimes we overthink this stuff.  My friend who was raised on St Clair and passed away a few years ago once told me he could catch a smallmouth on a cigarette butt.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a shoestring.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a gummy worm candy…..you guessed it, he did it. 

 

Sometimes, LMAO. I do the "find something you think I can't catch a fish on" thing on a lot of unsuspecting souls.

[Big Hands]

32 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Sometimes we overthink this stuff.  My friend who was raised on St Clair and passed away a few years ago once told me he could catch a smallmouth on a cigarette butt.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a shoestring.  He then did it.  He then told me he could catch one on a gummy worm candy…..you guessed it, he did it. 

It's sometimes hard to acknowledge that the biggest impediment to catching fish stares back at us while brushing our teeth.

 

I was on a party boat and people were complaining about not being able to catch the bluefish we were sitting on. I watched a deckhand proclaim that he could load up a 10 hook gangion using only pickle chips from the galley. And he did it within a few minutes. 

 

I was at a baby shower with my wife on the Queen Mary in Long Beach harbor. As luck would have it, I ended up sitting at a table with a party boat skipper. We talked fishing and then when the veggie platters arrived, he grabbed a plate of fresh broccoli and cauliflower and we went to the stern of the boat and began dropping pieces down into the water. Enormous perch, sand bass and calico bass were soon having a field day on raw vegetables. We went back for several helpings and had a good time feeding the fish. 

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1 minute ago, Big Hands said:

I was on a party boat and people were complaining about not being able to catch the bluefish were sitting on. I watched a deckhand proclaim that he could load up a 10 hook gangion using only pickle chips from the galley. And he did it within a few minutes. 

Yeah, but you only do it after the trip has gone to hell, cause it really affects the tip, can't tell you how many times I watch folks feeding the fish swinging at air and asking to move to a better spot with a better bite, it's a thing.

[Tennessee Boy]

The power of a plastic crawfish is that WE think it looks like a crawfish.  No one can prove that a bass thinks it’s a crawfish.  Maybe they just hit it because it’s moving.   What do they think a plastic worm is?  A rare species of earthworm that’s purple and can swim in water?

[Big Hands]

5 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

What do they think a plastic worm is?

Food or some form of a threat is my best guess. Either way, they deal with it the best way they know how.

[Catt]

20 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

The power of a plastic crawfish is that WE think it looks like a crawfish

 

The truth is most of the most productive don't even look like a crawfish.

 

As much as I love throwing Rage Craws & Lobsters they don't look like a crawfish. 

 

Guess what!

Neither does a jig!

[Mobasser]

We're always trying to feed these bass what WE think they want. 

[scaleface]

2 hours ago, TOXIC said:

catch a smallmouth on a cigarette butt.

I did that . Put a cigarette butt on a marabou jig and caught a largemouth ,

[Big Hands]

Don't tell this bass he's a coprophagiac. Poor sap thought he was eating a Chicken McNugget, or a crawdad. . . . . Or did he?

[Dogface]

20 hours ago, detroit1 said:

There was a soft plastic craw from the 70's called the"mad dad" that i'm not sure who made       it( mister twister?) It looked like a craw but only had it's right arm/claw. I bought a kit of them that came in 4 colors and 2 different sizes, and i  think it had a couple jigheads too. Don't remember using them much, and i know i didn't catch anything on them. Now i want to know who made them. Team 99, Catt, or somebody else help?

 

Cabela's? I may have some. I'll look. 

[Dogface]

On 2/7/2023 at 5:52 PM, detroit1 said:

There was a soft plastic craw from the 70's called the"mad dad" that i'm not sure who made       it( mister twister?) It looked like a craw but only had it's right arm/claw. I bought a kit of them that came in 4 colors and 2 different sizes, and i  think it had a couple jigheads too. Don't remember using them much, and i know i didn't catch anything on them. Now i want to know who made them. Team 99, Catt, or somebody else help?

 

These were in a kit from Cabela's. 

 

[scaleface]

31 minutes ago, Dogface said:

 

They were in a kit from Cabela's. 

 

How would you rig that thing , ball head jig?

[Jar11591]

2 hours ago, Mobasser said:

We're always trying to feed these bass what WE think they want. 

Or what we want them to want! 

[Fishingmickey]

On 2/7/2023 at 9:25 AM, Catt said:

Can't tell ya how many plastics I've bitten the head off.

     I also admit to being a plastic's geek. I bite the head (usually a inch or so) off of my 7' and 9" power worms more often then not. I like where the hook is positioned a little further back in the bait better. I think it improves (speeds up the ROF) especially when I am fishing deeper water.

     I really do like altering my plastics, be it removing appendages, shortening a long curly tail to a shorter curly tail, cutting the flap off of a speed worm to just a paddle on the back. Changing the action. Etc. etc. etc.

FM

[Mobasser]

In some ways, it doesn't really matter what a bass thinks our lures are, as long as they decide to eat them. Our goal is to catch them. If they think our plastic crawfish are the real thing, so be it. If we end up hooking and landing fish with them, they've done they're job.

[FishTank]

When it comes to a craw bait being damaged,  I will change it if it's a trailer but if I am using it Texas rigged I will fish it without one claw.  

 

As far as live crawdads go, I use to fish them when I was a kid all the time.  We would hook them sideways through the tail. When we let it sit still, the hook would keep it from running away but when you just tap the line the crawdad would turn on its side. That's when the fish would crush it.

[Team9nine]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

How would you rig that thing , ball head jig?

Yeah, jighead of some sort. These are prerigged in the pic, but you could do the same with most any standup type jighead.

 

[Dogface]

3 hours ago, scaleface said:

How would you rig that thing , ball head jig?

 

I actually had some jig heads that came with it. I'll post a photo if I can find them.

 

As for rigging them, who knows? That's probably why I still have a bunch. I can't figure it out. ?  

[detroit1]

I think i ordered them from their add in fishing facts magazine.

[NorthernBasser]

On 2/7/2023 at 11:35 PM, Columbia Craw said:

All right!!!  I’m tearing one of the legs off on every one of my frogs and more important, my duck lure.

I think you're onto something. Ducks have a strong kick!

 

[Tatulatard]

I used to melt peices of soft plastics together to make new baits in the 90s when concepts like "creature bait" didn't exist until the brush hog came out.  The idea of two curly tails on one bait was earth shattering at the time.  I didn't catch anything on my freak baits but it was fun playing with a lighter as a kid. 

[BrianMDTX]

As a boy in the 60s, I had this toy called Creepy Crawlers. It was essentially a steel hot plate with various molds into which you poured (I assume) plastisol and made various “creepy crawlies” lol. Thinking about it now, I bet some of those would have caught bass. 
 

Man, back then toys that could burn you were plentiful lol. 

[Catt]

39 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

I had this toy called Creepy Crawlers.

 

Thingmaker, also called Creepy Crawlers, made by Mattel, in 1964. 

 

It was rumored that's where Mr Twister got the idea for a curly tail worm.