Weedless Spoons

[Chris Stumpy Forslund]

Does anyone still fish a weedless spoon? or did the frog basically replace it?

[Chris]

I still fish them and also like to tip them with a white pork frog...Welcome to the forum

[Catt]

Still throw em

[river-rat]

I've been using the Johnson Silver Minnow and Rex Spoon for many years. The biggest bass I caught last year was on the JSM. (9.9 lbs)

[.ghoti.]

You don't often hear people talk about them, but the Johnson Silver Minnow will catch anything that swims. The standard presentation is to swim it through weed beds. Very simple, very effective.

Try one slow rolled at the base of the outside weed line. No twitches, no jerking, just a nice slow steady retrieve; just fast enough to keep it wobbling just off the bottom. It will get hammered.

Uncle Josh used make something called a bass strip. It was a flat piece of pork about 4" long, 1/2" wide, with a v-notched tail. My go to trailer for the JSM. Haven't seen any of those for years.

[SirSnookalot]

I hit the red by mistake, the j-spoon is a killer, I use them all the time.

[.ghoti.]

Sir Snook doesn't like me letting the cat out of the bag about slow rolling a spoon. :D :D :D

[TimJ]

During the short time each year I still fish LM, I still resort to the JSM and a PT spoon, use a gator tail from a ripped worm as a trailer...but now that Fishin Daddy has introduced me to the Booyah swimmin jig, I think a new timeshare just began! I wonder how smallies will respond to the jig...

TJ

[SirSnookalot]

Sir Snook doesn't like me letting the cat out of the bag about slow rolling a spoon. :D :D :D

I employ only 2 techniques in both fresh and salt, " cast and pray "& bait and wait", at least 50% of my catch from my first technique are due to spoon( jspoons don't get hung up on reefs as much as other spoons at low tide).

[RoLo]

Few lures can equal the weedless performance of the Johnson spoon in matted vegees and pads.

The magic of the J-spoon lies in the fact that it can be fished in low-pressured and virgin water,

places that would bog down a buzzbait.

Some of the largest bass I’ve ever boated fell for a 1/2oz J-spoon with a 5” Kalin grub.

Roland Martin's personal-best stringer was a 10-bass limit from Santee Cooper, SC

that weighed 87 pounds (8 lb 11oz average). Every bass was taken on a Johnson Silver Minnow.

Roger