Favorite Drop shot baits
What are they? Any preference for baits in deeper or shallow water? |
alwaysfishking
Sep 14
2004
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| My absolute favorite is still the 4" Airtail worm, but they are long since
out of business. Next is Gil's Belly Shad. But I'm down to one of thoae and am saving it for
a tournament this november. That takes me down to: 4-3/4" LC Rascals (Green weenie and black pumpkin) (caught a ton of fish
on these this year, more fish by far than on any other DS bait) 3" Snakebite Finesse Paddle worm. 3" Reapers.
RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
Sep 14
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| This guy I spoke to recently sent me a bag of drop shot minnows from
"worminator" that are awesome looking. They're 3 color hand poured with
realistic eyes mounted in them and as soon as I get in an appropriate
situation, I'm going to give them a try. They're at http://www.worminatorlures.com and you can check them out for
yourself. Rich P P.S. hey Randy, I made the 6 man team this year. A little redemption after
last years debacle. |
Rich
Sep 14
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| Rich, try Storm's lifelike baitfish baits, the 3 & 4" size. They look
amazing on a dropshot rig... Warren |
go-bassn
Sep 14
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| I did. As soon as I could get my hot little hands on some after they came
out. To me, they proved that loos can be deceiving. They LOOKED like they
would be very productive. I'm very disillusioned with all the made-in-china
soft plastics -- Storm, Tsunami, Calcutta, Wild Eyze, etc. -- They all LOOK
good in a generic, transparent plastic, holographic pearl and painted
detail sort of way, but in my experience, they all have sort of a stiff,
lifeless manner to them moving through the water. RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
Sep 14
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| Mr. Z, do you prefer any particular color of the Snakebites? When I
think Rich Z, I think the dark green pumpkin pepper. However I could
be waaaaaay wrong. Mike's Baitfish and the Perch colors look
interesting to me. Harry J aka Thundercat
Brooklyn Bill's Tackle Shop Fishing Team
http://www.geocities.com/brooklynbill2003/products.html
Share the knowledge, compete on execution. |
Thundercat
Sep 15
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| eBay man. I see them there quite a bit. Brad Coovert
2003 Angler of the Year, Greenfield Bassmasters
http://www.greenfieldbassmasters.com |
sweepers
Sep 15
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| Depends on the lake. Oroville is 3" & 4" Morning dawn Roboworms and 3"
brown reapers for most other lakes.
Bill |
Calif
Sep 15
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| Mike's Baitfish is great. Ditto Cinamon blue neon. But my favorite is motor
oil/green flake. What? that's not a color? Uhm... that's what custom is all
about, isn't it? For anyone who is a basketball fan, Snakebite is owned by Brian
Quinette(sp?) who was a hell of a college player and a first round draft
choice in the pros. His dad is also a writer of some note who writes some
pretty neat stuff on fishing as psychology. RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
Sep 14
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| I used to see them there, back when I had a decent supply. But haven't seen
them in over a year. (and I check it frequently for them). RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
Sep 14
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| Next time I see some, I'll send you an email. There is one seller in
particular (don't remember who though) that does not list brands, etc. in their
post, just a pic of a group of plastics and they usually have a few bags in
every auction. Brad Coovert
2003 Angler of the Year, Greenfield Bassmasters
http://www.greenfieldbassmasters.com |
sweepers
Sep 15
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| well I can't say I've tried em during a good ds bite because I just picked
em up recently, but I've seen em work wonders on bedding bass when my baits
weren't. Warren |
go-bassn
Sep 15
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| Rich, I found some 4" Action Airetails in Big Lots tonite, made by K-C
Tackle MFG. in PA. Are these what you are referring to? John C. French |
John
Sep 15
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| Precisely. Wonder if the BigLots here has them. I'll be checking tomorrow. What
color(s) did you find. (and it is the worm, and not the grub that you
found, right?) RichZ©
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RichZ
Sep 15
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| Yes, it is the 4" worm. I got the purple, yellow with green flakes, green
with yellow flakes. They all have a tiny paddle tail. 79c a twelve pack. Not
bad at all, if they work like you say. They had about 20-30 packs. If you
cand find any, lemme know and I will pick some up and ship them to you. John C. French |
John
Sep 16
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| If by yellow, you mean AMBER, I'll take all of those and all the green
ones. If they have any black or motor oil, I'll take all of those, too.
Just let me know how much to send where. The big lots here didn't have any at all. RichZ©
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RichZ
Sep 16
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| I stopped in a BigLots in Dallas. They didn't have any of those, but
they had helicopter lures! $2 a four pack. |
Henry
Sep 16
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| Right, AMBER. The color is not actually listed on the packaging. First
color description that popped out of my fingers to the keys was yellow. I'll
pick them all up this weekend and get the addy info for where to send them. Is purple not a desirable color? I think there was plenty of those as
well. Can't really remember. I'll get what they have. Some one else may want
some. John C. French |
John
Sep 16
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| Purple is generally a great worm color. But I can honestly say I've never
caught a fish drop shotting a purple or grape worm (and grape has long been
my single favorite color for plastic worms). I want these baits exclusively
for drop shotting. anything in the green, amber or smoke families, along
with solid black, will make me happy. Motor Oil will make me ecstatic! RichZ©
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RichZ
Sep 16
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| Rich, you remind me of when Rapala discoed my favorite Minnesota smallmouth
crank the #5 Rattlin' Fat Rap in Crawfish. Thanks to alert friends and
bargain bins in Gander Mountain and Fleet Farm I ended up with 19 and 5
years later I still have 13. ( Gave 2 to kids that caught their biggest
Smallies with me) Works over here in SD too, in fact I caught an accidental
13" Rainbow on Sharpe last weekend as well as a 19"walleye. Useless trivia.
;-) Joe Z.
If by yellow, you mean AMBER, I'll take all of those and all the green
ones. If they have any black or motor oil, I'll take all of those, too.
Just let me know how much to send where. The big lots here didn't have any at all. RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
Joe
Sep 16
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| The funny thing about this is that I had a bunch of these worms and never
caught fish on them. Then I tried them drop shotting, and WOW. But by then,
I'd given most of them away.<G> Since then, whenever I see any, I buy them.
Missed the mother lode on ebay about 2 years ago. RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
Sep 17
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