Plastic Lures

[dpiper]

Hey TWT or minner skinner do either of yall ever use artifical lures in saltwater? I heard that corkies and saltwater assinsin work well for reds and specs.

Here is the link to the corky lure:

http://www.corkybandl.com/index.htm

If you haven't used it (which you probraly have) ya'll ought to give it a try.

[waterspout]

Paul Brown Is the man when it comes to winter fishing lures. The origanal corky is awsome. I like the corky devil best. get some you won't regret it. One other thing work that corky slow with a little twitch here and there. SA's are one of the only lures I use, in many colors though ,, winter(3/8 head) summer (1/4 oz. head).

[Thin Water Tracker]

It they sale it I can almost say I have it. One thing about corky is to work them slow in fact this time of year everything should be slowed down. I think my go to bait as far a hardware is the top dog and shedogs. Something about that top water blowup once it's in your blood it's hard not to try them first thing. as the wate temp keeps dropping 52M are going to start paying off on sand flats.
Whatever type of lure you use the trick is to remember what you do on each cast so when you do hook up you and work it the same on the next cast. You'll cast 10 to 20 times more than you do with meat but the fish will be bigger.

[dpiper]

I know what you mean by "blowup". Before I was in this wheelchair I did a lot of trash I mean bass fishing. It was incredible watching a bass coming over a lily pad to swallow your lure or having one come out of the water at your feet as you are lifting the lure out of the water. WOW!

Never worked plastic in saltwater. But did alot of reading though.

Keep it up.

[Thin Water Tracker]

The main thing is just remember what you did when you hooked up and change up the way you work it back in ever doz or so cast. Slower in cold water and faster in warm is just about the only real rule I have ever gone by other than darker colors on cloudy day and lighter on brite days but that isn;t always the rule the water color can change that some. But most use about four color and shade of those.

[minner skinner]

One of the proudest moments I've ever had fishing was throwing plastics and to out fish my buddy who was using live bait. I almost felt like i knew what i was doing. Recently Ive begun to throw the Norton bull minnows more cause I've tired of working the sands eels. Although when stuffing a flounder, the left over plastics never taste as good as left over bait shrimp.

[dpiper]

TWT using darker lures at dawn and dusk and on heavy overcast days always seem strang to me but it generally worked and I followed that rule. That was in my young b@$$ days. Good comments.

MS It does fill good to out with nothing but a rod-n-reel and a few lures and bring home a full creel.

Donald

[Thin Water Tracker]

Skinner, talking about plastic in fish. Reminds me of a time a buddy and I was fishing in LA .we had been knocking out the perch and we had about 130 for the day which was a lost of cleaning but they were all good size. We filet them and in one of the smaller red ears we found a eight inch plastic worm. Looking at the size of the worm and the size of his mouth he had to do a little work to get that thing down. He took me in to some of the really cool places in the river basin to fish. I think a man could spend a week in there and never go down the same channel.

[dwaynez]

Thin Water Tracker

Perch are some good eatin fish, especially if you get into a school of the large ones, great post.

[minner skinner]

well with all those channels i would get lost. i get lost in the marshes in the back of greens lake. does anybody know where i could get a map of those marshes? I'm gonna give those running flounders some thing to think about this weekend.

[Thin Water Tracker]

Best I have ever came up with for those hard to reach places. http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx

[minner skinner]

thanks TWT, most of the maps ive seen show greens and carauchua lakes but stop just short of the marsh area. I'll give it a try and let y'all know if i was able to find it. probly wont be till spring before i head back out that way. although there is a 12' hole surronded by 3-4' waterback in there. maybe some fish will stack up in there during a cold spell. just wondering anybody was ever used the halls bayou ramp on 2004 to get to chocolate bayou?

[Thin Water Tracker]

I've been back there it look like really thin water till you get into it. but most of the one I got into had water as deep as 10 foot. I can see these areas holding winter trout.

[minner skinner]

just want to share something new i learned on a recent bass fishing session :oops: . Was fishing in a small pond that regularly saw plastic worms. After a few small fish and alot of casting with a worm decided to change it up a bit. Retrieved a green bass assassin that i use in saltwater. Having no weights just used a bass worm hook and this weird plastic as decribed by the local pond owner. A really slow sinking rate and a retrieve that would make a erratic u-turns and darts between little jerks. The next 20 minutes were a highlight reel as 3-5 lb pond bass just keep slammed my plastic which was within inches of the surface much to the dismay of competive local onlookers (relatives that you only see on holidays). So atleast for a year I will retain bragging rights. So if you see a fishingtx member coming to fish your hole, better watch out. Thanks for all the info, tips ,honey holes, experiences and just for having a good time. O and thanks to bass assassins. :D

[Thin Water Tracker]

It wild how something they have never seen just knock them dead. years a go we were on a buddy deer lease and it had a few stock ponds. I took shrimp for dinner and we had about a pint left over that I didn't cook. So I too them down to one of the ponds and tore up the bass and brim. In fact all the crew was down their the next day and we ended up taking home a box full of brim, cats and a few bass. something I had never seen the five of us had to catch over 200 fish that day out of a two acre pond. I guess they never had shrimp and like it.

[dwaynez]

Same thing happened to me at a stock pond, it was not fished often at all and we used artificial worms and a few small jigs and caught about 150 or so bass between the three of us. The bass were aggresive and hti anything that moved, one of the most memorable fishing trips ever.

[elpescador24]

Minner Skinner,I once luanched my 14ft.jon alweld/25 evinrude boat
at halls bayou.If i remember correctly i dodged alot of crab traps
heading downstream.It empties into Halls Lake and its shallow.But
if you have a tunnel ,(1 0r 2 foot depth)water shouldn't be a peoblem.
Yes,you can reach chocolate bay bye way of halls bayou ramp.
theres a cut that leads you into chocolate bay(bayou),,
I understand redfish are caught in the bayou(halls)regularly...