question about sluggos

[fishing=life]

i just bought a pack of sluggos and was wondering how you rig these things. should the flat side be on the top or the bottom? any help would be greatly appreciated.

                                                           

mike

[Raul]

With the flat side on the top, if you rig them otherwise the bait will roll over and run with the flat side up.

[fishing=life]

thanks raul

[Avalonjohn44]

You can wacky rig a sluggo too...  

[.ghoti.]

Flat side up, EWG hook, no weight. The slower you fish them, the more you'll catch.

Cheers,

GK

[bighed]

Looks like you got the right answer so I'll just add a little story. Back when Lake Ray Roberts opened around 88 or so these baits were just coming to peoples attention around here. There were two kinds, sluggos and chatterboxes but both were basically the same and both very much in demand. The word got around that this was THE hot bait so me and my buds went on a quest to find some. None of the Dallas tackle shops had any left but we finally found some in a gas station out by lake RR. There was a price of $1.50 on them and when we carried a few packs to the counter we were asked how many we wanted??? They were selling them for $1.50 for EACH bait!!! I couldn't believe it, almost fell over. I dug deep and got out all the cash I had and bought four or five of them. We headed for the lake and loaded my Coleman Crawdad (little plastic boat) in and decide to try my new bait while waiting on the rest of the crew to get there bass busters put in. First cast fish, second cast fish, third cast fish all from the shore. Within half an hour all my baits were gone and I'd caught a dozen or so bass. Didn't catch much the rest of the day on worms and such. They are a great forgotten bait. Since the coming of the senko most people have moved on. Now let me tell you the story about the glass shad.....................

[Ghetto_Basser]

Flat side up, EWG hook, no weight. The slower you fish them, the more you'll catch.

Cheers,

GK

That is the best advice. This bait is a killler bait.

[jdw174]

Flat side up, EWG hook, no weight. The slower you fish them, the more you'll catch.

Cheers,

GK

While this may be so in some instances, I always had my best luck actually twitching it so hard that it jumped out of the water like a shad, then killing it for a second or two.  I'd really burn it.  worked great.

[.ghoti.]

great story, bighead. There were tales of guys getting 2 bucks apiece for sluggo's around here, back in the day. I never bought any at that price, but I may have been tempted had I actully found some. They're actually hard to find around here now. No local shops stock them.

It's interesting you mentioned Senko's taking over. I seem to remember reading the when Mr Yamamoto was developing the Senko, what he had in mind was a "sluggo" type action. Surprise! Look what he got instead. Surely one the most fortunate examples of not getting what you were looking for.

jdw, you're absolutely correct. Sometimes working it on top, and making it jump out of the water is deadly.

Cheers,

GK

[moby bass]

The slug-go works best if it is rigged perfectly straight, as suggested on the package.  That way the action is very erratic and won't twist your line.  First time I put a slug-go on and the first cast made with it, I caught a bass.  Pike like them as well.

[.dsaavedra.]

Now let me tell you the story about the glass shad.....................

PLEASE DO!!!! I HAVE A PACK OF GLASS SHADS FROM WALMRAT FROM A LONG TIME AGO! THEY LOOK AWESOME!!!

[bighed]

Dave, these were a largely overlooked bait that came a couple years after the sluggo.  They had the same slow glide through the water as the sluggo and that reflective insert that would make bass just CRUSH them.  Red and green inserts were the best for me.  Fished weightless they were great, fished on a C-rig with a long leader they were better.  Even at that time there was alot of pressure on the fish and this gave them something they had never seen.   Cast to a road bed or creek channel and given a jerk they would pop off the bottom and slowly glide back down.  I'm not sure that there's anything available that has as good of a dying shad action.  I think there was a problem with them in their manufacture that caused them to get gooy after a while.   Anyway, these thing ended up in the dollar bin in most places around here not long after they came out.    Smart guys loaded up and fished them a few extra years.  I've seen them as recently as two years ago so not sure when production stopped.  I think they left as quickly as they appeared for most folks when the next great bait took over, the Bass Assassin Shad Assassin.   Anybody remember the Phish Stick?

[rkymntnhi]

PHISH STIK. You bet. Like a medium size spook. Bouyancy about like the sluggo.

Great bait, both bass and pike. You know they are still available from Phantom.I just restocked.

they also have a sluggo style like the bass assasin and a solid head tube. All good.