TouchTooMuch Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 I have been a real hardbaits guy, always have a crank lipped or lipless within arms reach. But my buddy is one of those guys that thinks if you cant fish with a soft plastic, you cant fish. So he challenged me to a day on the water with nothing but soft plastics, I chose zoom lizards... I HAD A BLAST! He showed me a few things and I was just reeling them in, now I did catch a few 1 pounders and less, but I also caught a few 3 and 4 pounders. and now, atleast soft plastic lizards will always be in my tackle box. And since Z-Man lures sponsors this now, maybe I will order a few bags of their plastic lizards Quote
Brand0n Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 soft plastics showed me what ive been missing. ive only started using them maybe 2 years ago and i learn something new each fishing trip with them and catch more and more fish with them. Quote
zachb34 Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 How are you fishing your lizards? I cant get a bite on them at all. Quote
McBee Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 6" lizard. Pumpkin seed w/ chartrues tail T-rigged works well for me. 90% of my catches are from the slow sinking action, if no bite I just slowly drag it across the bottom with a few twitches here and there. Quote
TouchTooMuch Posted August 10, 2011 Author Posted August 10, 2011 I fish a 5" watermelon seed zoom lizard T-rigged. Cast it out and twitch it, reel in slack, twitch, reel in slack, thats how I fish it. Quote
Brand0n Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 just started using senkos (or yum dingers) also. i fish a pressured lake and most of the time they only want that. sometimes im lucky and catch a few with my 10" culprit original worm. my dad caught his first 5lb bass on a 4" dinger. lost it the other day, came back and caught it again the next day. Quote
BrianSnat Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 I rarely use anything but plastics. My crankbaits collect dust. Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted August 11, 2011 Global Moderator Posted August 11, 2011 I'd feel naked if I had to go to a lake withouth any plastics Now you just have to learn how to fish a worm, and craw, and a creature, and tube, and grub, and toad, and soft jerkbait, and, well, there's lots of other soft plastics to learn so you better get fishing! Quote
ChiCityBasser Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 I use to fish nothing but lipped cranks as well and then got into swim jigs with plastic trailers. After that came the lipless cranks but plastics were further down on the list when I first started. Now I have a rod with some form of plastic tied to it each time out. Right now it's the Fat Ika and Senkos that are getting most of my plastics time on the lake. Its taking some time to get the hookset just right but its worth it as some lakes here because of the heat, the water levels are down but the weeds are up and fishing a crank is close to impossible. Yesterday was the first time my crank rod has stayed in the truck and fished plastics the majority of the time out and worked in a frog also. Quote
Delaware Valley Tackle Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 Platics, hard baits and metal (spoons) each have their time and place. Quote
LuckyHandsINC. Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 I rarely use anything but plastics. My crankbaits collect dust. Me too. I know I should use them I just never do. Quote
Super User Catt Posted August 11, 2011 Super User Posted August 11, 2011 Total ShareLunker entries 523, number caught on plastics 237 Quote
ChiCityBasser Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 Total ShareLunker entries 523, number caught on plastics 237 Wow I'm only getting close to 200 and way to catch them Quote
Avalonjohn44 Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Total ShareLunker entries 523, number caught on plastics 237 Interesting stat, but maybe a little misleading. 237 on plastics leaves 289 for all other baits. This includes jigs, cranks, spinnerbaits, topwaters, spoons, live bait(?) etc... I think plastics has a pretty commanding lead. Quote
Super User Hooligan Posted August 14, 2011 Super User Posted August 14, 2011 Interesting stat, but maybe a little misleading. 237 on plastics leaves 289 for all other baits. This includes jigs, cranks, spinnerbaits, topwaters, spoons, live bait(?) etc... I think plastics has a pretty commanding lead. How is it misleading? 237 on plastics, 289 on everything else. What's misleading about that? Plastics are an essential tool to have and master, as are crankbaits, spinnerbaits... You get the idea. Quote
Avalonjohn44 Posted August 15, 2011 Posted August 15, 2011 I interpreted the OP where the plastics statistic was given to show that plastics were not so great. Quote
Super User Catt Posted August 15, 2011 Super User Posted August 15, 2011 I interpreted the OP where the plastics statistic was given to show that plastics were not so great. I’ll take the misleading factor out for ya Plastics: 237 Jigs: 106 Spinner bait: 49 Live bait: 40 Crank bait: 35 Lipless crank: 20 Swim bait: 11 Miscellaneous: 10 Spoons: 9 Crappie jig: 6 Quote
scbassin Posted August 15, 2011 Posted August 15, 2011 Catt I am surprised that your total on a spinnerbait is not higher, do you fish it as much as the others? Over here that is a big fish bait. especially in the spring in the shallow water, 1-3 ft. Quote
Super User Catt Posted August 16, 2011 Super User Posted August 16, 2011 LOL, those are not my number The Toyota ShareLunker Program, which encourages anglers who have caught 13-pound-plus largemouth bass to lend or donate the fish to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department for spawning purposes. Quote
scbassin Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Catt I had no idea about that program. I thought you were keeping track of anything over 7-8 pounds lol. That is a lot of bass over 13 pounds. How long a period is that over? Quote
Super User Catt Posted August 17, 2011 Super User Posted August 17, 2011 Here’s a link to their web site Toyota ShareLunker Program Quote
Super User Crestliner2008 Posted August 17, 2011 Super User Posted August 17, 2011 I think the majority of "power" fishermen can't slow down enough to fish plastics effectively. Otherwise, the stats with plastics would be even higher. A good friend of mine fishes jigs and plastics on occasion, but has his foot on the TM almost constantly. Consequently, he never does well with them and switches back to hard baits after a short period of time. Difficult to present plastics this way. But that's his thing and more "power" to him! Quote
Mrs. Matstone Posted August 17, 2011 Posted August 17, 2011 My husband did the same thing to me when I started fishing a few years ago and plastics have been the only thing that I have thrown ever since. Now all I ever throw are Rage Tails. I love fishing plastics I like the versatility of them. I do fish them on jigs or once in a while on a scrounger too. Congrats to you and welcome to the club. Quote
Super User Catt Posted August 17, 2011 Super User Posted August 17, 2011 I think the majority of "power" fishermen can't slow down enough to fish plastics effectively. Otherwise, the stats with plastics would be even higher. A good friend of mine fishes jigs and plastics on occasion, but has his foot on the TM almost constantly. Consequently, he never does well with them and switches back to hard baits after a short period of time. Difficult to present plastics this way. But that's his thing and more "power" to him! Exactly But once I establish a pattern I “power” fish with a Texas rig & Jig-n-craw! Something else that is extremely interesting about the ShareLunker data is the fact you can only enter a bass caught from October 1-April 30. These dates in Texas mean fall, early pre-spawn, pre-spawn, & spawn; by conventional wisdom October, November, early December, mid-February, & March should be dominated by spinner baits & lipless cranks. Quote
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