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Post by mapper on Mar 23, 2024 11:14:42 GMT -5
Now I'm lucky enough to be in a area where I can fish freshwater rivers that transition to brackish and out to the gulf.
So this opens up possibilities.
Now that said, what would be some indispensable soft plastic lures that would be on your go to list. And how would you rig them, as far as Texas, Texas with worm weight, carolina, and jig head and weight of jig head considerations.
Freshwater,
Curly tail worms, creature baits, lizards, crawfish, brush hogs
Brackish water, grubs, shrimp, paddletails, and a mix of the above?
Salt water, shrimp, grubs, pogy, paddletails, etc..?
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Post by lemaymiami on Mar 24, 2024 6:18:34 GMT -5
I make, and use, a ton of leadheads for my customers each day... Here's a pic or two of how they're rigged...  this shows the size range from 1/2oz all the way down to 1/16oz. These leadheads will either be used with live bait (shrimp, crabs, pilchards, sardines, or herring) or be the starting point for making bucktail jigs since they don't have any barbs. The ones I make for plastic or Gulp tails all have barbs (next photo...).  these are the ones designed for plastic or Gulp tails - all are powder coated - then baked for hardness in whatever color you choose and have sticky sharp black nickel hooks. I make these by the hundred for anyone that knows what they want... At any rate - if you want a full price list with color photos - an email request to lemaymiami@aol.com will get you one by return mail. Anyone wanting to see what our guiding trips into the Everglades are producing...just go to Instagram and look up Capt Bob LeMay - lots of current photos there... |
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Post by saltydawg44 on Mar 25, 2024 5:56:13 GMT -5
I've been using the same type of jigs shaped like the yellow one that Capt Lemay makes. They are also great even farther offshore while drift fishing because they always settle on the bottom with the hook riding upwards and rarely hang up. I rig them either with a curly tail grub, or a crawfish that looks like a baby lobster.  Attachments:
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Post by richm on Mar 25, 2024 6:31:31 GMT -5
Hiya Bob - what strength hooks are you using? 1x, 3x??? |
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Post by 4ward on Mar 25, 2024 20:34:25 GMT -5
Little jerk shad, the skinny ones.(I like white)
Wide gap hook with the little spring to thread it on, 1/16 oz w/ the weight that will slide up/down the hook shank. Slide it forward and bounce bottom, or slide weight back and walk across just above the bottom .
It’s a shallow water killer. Fresh and salt
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Post by lemaymiami on Mar 27, 2024 17:59:23 GMT -5
These black nickel hooks - are actually heavy freshwater hooks and come sticky sharp. As the head size gets heavier the hooks get larger in size as well... The 1/4 oz model has held up to tarpon in the 60lb range without bending out... Must admit though that we're never using line heavier than 20lb braid with these lures... - With stronger lines you could probably end up with a few hook failures.. The rods set up with 1/16 or 1/8 oz leadheads are only using 10lb braid - the rods we use with 1/4, 3/8, or 1/2 oz leadheads all have 20lb braid (the light rods with a 30lb fluoro casting leader, the 20lb rods with a 40lb fluoro leader.... My casting leaders are quite short - starting at 24" long (and they get cut back a bit to remove any frayed portion from cathing fish as we go... Those two foot long leaders are attached to one to three feet of doubled line (with a 40 turn Bimini Twist...). This next pic shows a really big snook my anglers caught and released one day - in Chokoloskee Bay on a 1/4 oz leadhead with a Mr. Wiffle plastic tail... using the exact setup I just described, 20lb braid, 40lb fluoro casting leader...  As Kenny Brown of Outdoor Resorts said... not many that size in the Ten Thousand Islands... and she was carefully released to fight another day... |
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Post by richm on Mar 27, 2024 20:00:51 GMT -5
These black nickel hooks - are actually heavy freshwater hooks and come sticky sharp. As the head size gets heavier the hooks get larger in size as well... The 1/4 oz model has held up to tarpon in the 60lb range without bending out... Must admit though that we're never using line heavier than 20lb braid with these lures... - With stronger lines you could probably end up with a few hook failures.. The rods set up with 1/16 or 1/8 oz leadheads are only using 10lb braid - the rods we use with 1/4, 3/8, or 1/2 oz leadheads all have 20lb braid (the light rods with a 30lb fluoro casting leader, the 20lb rods with a 40lb fluoro leader.... My casting leaders are quite short - starting at 24" long (and they get cut back a bit to remove any frayed portion from cathing fish as we go... Those two foot long leaders are attached to one to three feet of doubled line (with a 40 turn Bimini Twist...). This next pic shows a really big snook my anglers caught and released one day - in Chokoloskee Bay on a 1/4 oz leadhead with a Mr. Wiffle plastic tail... using the exact setup I just described, 20lb braid, 40lb fluoro casting leader... As Kenny Brown of Outdoor Resorts said... not many that size in the Ten Thousand Islands... and she was carefully released to fight another day... Thanks, Bob.! |
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Post by duckman on Apr 30, 2024 4:34:33 GMT -5
Have not heard " Mr wiffle" in a long time.
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Post by lemaymiami on Apr 30, 2024 6:18:43 GMT -5
A guide in Everglades City has brought them back - and I'm using them whenever I'm expecting bigger fish (tarpon, snook, cobia) when possible on the ends of our leadheads... We work them slow and deep - just off the bottom.
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Post by lemaymiami on Apr 30, 2024 6:19:01 GMT -5
A guide in Everglades City has brought them back - and I'm using them whenever I'm expecting bigger fish (tarpon, snook, cobia) when possible on the ends of our leadheads... We work them slow and deep - just off the bottom.
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Post by duckman on May 4, 2024 4:23:00 GMT -5
Are they still called Mr Wiffle ?
What store carries them ?
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Post by cyclist on May 15, 2024 10:55:33 GMT -5
I was using stingray grubs when the trout limit was 25 and 14inch I believe. Now, I can't seem to shake the lure of scented baits like Gulp. My plastic lure collection is huge but I don't use many of the styles any more.
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