Senkosam
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Finesse lures usually mean lures 2-3" weighing near nothing or nothing as in floating lures. I've come up with a term - micro-finesse - for catching those little tail nippers whose mouths are too small to grab a lure deep enough to be hooked.
Recently I fished a lake under a bright sun with no clouds. The day was hot, but a steady breeze made it tolerable. The bite was DEAD! As I was calling it quits and returning to the launch, my lure started getting attacked by year-old fish no bigger than 3.5"
Three or more fish on shallow flats that dropped into water 8' or deeper, would attack on the same retrieve, but no hooksets.
I never use 1/64 oz jigs with #8 hooks, but figured I may as well just to see what was nipping my Crappie Magnet lure. The lure chosen was 1" of the tail of a slim plastic worm. It looked like a mini-stick and exhibited a nice slow slow-falling, darting /wobbly action. Got Ya Ya little *^*%*s!
I fished the same areas around the lake and caught not only 4" fish but some nice sunfish, crappie and yellow perch along with some small bass.
I changed lures to this small spike tail and caught this decent yellow perch:
II was surprised to see fish striking small bait fish on the surface near the middle of the lake. No way was I going to pass up that easy strike, and sure enough, it added a dozen fish to the total in different areas in 18 FOW! This happened around 4:30 pm. Total caught - 63 fish along with a doz. missed hook sets.
The day was saved by using super-light jigs rigged with super-small lures. No doubt a light feather or hair jig would have done as well, which I will try next time (after this DANG 90+ HEAT WAVE subsides!
)
Recently I fished a lake under a bright sun with no clouds. The day was hot, but a steady breeze made it tolerable. The bite was DEAD! As I was calling it quits and returning to the launch, my lure started getting attacked by year-old fish no bigger than 3.5"
Three or more fish on shallow flats that dropped into water 8' or deeper, would attack on the same retrieve, but no hooksets.
I never use 1/64 oz jigs with #8 hooks, but figured I may as well just to see what was nipping my Crappie Magnet lure. The lure chosen was 1" of the tail of a slim plastic worm. It looked like a mini-stick and exhibited a nice slow slow-falling, darting /wobbly action. Got Ya Ya little *^*%*s!
I fished the same areas around the lake and caught not only 4" fish but some nice sunfish, crappie and yellow perch along with some small bass.
I changed lures to this small spike tail and caught this decent yellow perch:
II was surprised to see fish striking small bait fish on the surface near the middle of the lake. No way was I going to pass up that easy strike, and sure enough, it added a dozen fish to the total in different areas in 18 FOW! This happened around 4:30 pm. Total caught - 63 fish along with a doz. missed hook sets.
The day was saved by using super-light jigs rigged with super-small lures. No doubt a light feather or hair jig would have done as well, which I will try next time (after this DANG 90+ HEAT WAVE subsides!
)
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