Suspending Lipless Crankbait

[Team9nine]

16 minutes ago, Catt said:

@Team9nine Know we should have asked you!

I think I still have two of these myself - chrome and firetiger; both floaters. Original Trap dates to 1972 as best we can tell, and I believe the Tiny Trap was released in the late 80s before these lipped versions. I still have several of those (tiny’s).
 

Here’s a picture from 1982 showing how they were assembled at the time by hand.

 

[casts_by_fly]

15 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

I think I still have two of these myself - chrome and firetiger; both floaters. Original Trap dates to 1972 as best we can tell, and I believe the Tiny Trap was released in the late 80s before these lipped versions. I still have several of those (tiny’s).
 

Here’s a picture from 1982 showing how they were assembled at the time by hand.

 

by tiny, do you mean the little 1/8oz versions?  Those were fantastic little creek smallmouth lures. 

[Team9nine]

7 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

by tiny, do you mean the little 1/8oz versions?  Those were fantastic little creek smallmouth lures. 

Yes - They’re still made, I believe. Tiny’s are 1/8 oz, Mini’s are 1/4 oz., Originals 1/2 oz. and Mags are 3/4 oz.

[casts_by_fly]

3 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Yes - They’re still made, I believe. Tiny’s are 1/8 oz, Mini’s are 1/4 oz., Originals 1/2 oz. and Mags are 3/4 oz.

well I’ll be. I never knew they still made them but there they are on the website. 
 

for anyone fishing pressured ponds, fishing for pan fish, or stream bass- get yourself a couple of these. They are tiny and you need a spinning rod or maybe bfs. But they catch fish.  

[Pat Brown]

There's a 1 oz rat-l-trap now too and it's enormous.

[Bluebasser86]

The 6th Sense runs about 2-4' deep depending on how fast you fish it. I usually fish it on 15lb mono and use kind of a pull-stop-pull-stop retrieve. Great alternative when they're seeing lots of standard traps or jerkbaits. They really seem to crush it when they bite. 

https://i.ibb.co/52J8TgG/20200208-071109.jpg

 

[txchaser]

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The 6th Sense runs about 2-4' deep depending on how fast you fish it. I usually fish it on 15lb mono and use kind of a pull-stop-pull-stop retrieve. Great alternative when they're seeing lots of standard traps or jerkbaits. They really seem to crush it when they bite. 

https://i.ibb.co/52J8TgG/20200208-071109.jpg

 

That one's nice fishing shallow too, when it's so shallow I can't really keep one from burying up when I snap it the first time. 

 

[WVU-SCPA]

15 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The 6th Sense runs about 2-4' deep depending on how fast you fish it. I usually fish it on 15lb mono and use kind of a pull-stop-pull-stop retrieve.

+1 for the pull stop.  Not fishing it as a trap, but more of subtle jerk bait retrieve where you aren't every moving the bait on a tight line. 

 

 

[Catt]

On 11/6/2023 at 9:22 PM, casts_by_fly said:

well I’ll be. I never knew they still made them but there they are on the website.

 

Every Walmart down here carries them.

 

On 11/7/2023 at 3:55 AM, Pat Brown said:

There's a 1 oz rat-l-trap

 

There's a 1.5 oz Super Trap!