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| I have seen many styles of presentations when it comes to Reef Hawgs.
I prefer the side to side...others prefer to pull and glide.
What is your favorite way to work a Reef Hawg? |
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| I like to 'bounce' the Reef Hawg by twithching it side to side twice, then down/up twice. No reason, just the way I always have worked the bait! |
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| I like to "twitch" them and snap the slack line to get them to glide. |
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| Short easy pulls and pause, drives em nuts, sits right in their face!!!
Love to work this bait real "SLOW" when I have the patience to do so and it's a nice calm day! |
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| A reef hawg does not sustain the same action does it? Mine definatly won't..I know thats definatly not bad because the fish like that, But I'll twitch it like any other glide and it will mabye go back and forth once and then it does something wierd and then starts to glide again and then comes in a straight a little bit and then glides back again? Is the action I should be looking for or what action do most of you see out of your hawgs? |
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| That's the action you want. I think it is an action that triggers strikes, that's the beauty of a Reef Hawg. I will say it again. The Reef Hawg was not designed to be a pure glide bait. It was made to go side to side, the up, down, side to side, roll over, etc. you got the picture. Adding some weight can make the bait even more versatile.
Good luck, Murph |
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| twitch, pull, let it suspend, give it a few quick snaps, troll it (wide side to side swing), ... I love the action when it does about anything. I have one sinking 6" that goes up and down, left and right during the entire retrieve. All the ones I have are tail down-ones. I still have to catch my first fish on them but they look too good not to catch fish for me. |
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| I work mine real hard, like some small twitches followed by long pulls just never letting up during the retreve. Those big fish like the crazy action it can have instead of a steady left to right action. Then trolling them and just leaving them in the rod holders with that snake action works just fine on the big girls too. [:sun:]
Going to cast my 12 inchers this year with my new 6'10 JB rod. [:p] |
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| I like to keep the rod tip low to the water and then snap the slack out of the line. The cadence is all that changes for me. Sometimes short pauses between snaps, sometimes long. If I pull the bait, I feel that I don't get the glide that I want. So, I guess that makes me a 'snapper'[:bigsmile:]
Beav |
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| Personnaly I think reef hawgs are at their best with a very erratic action.Up, sideways, up again, down and sideways and so on and hanging steady at the end of each pull or twitch. I prefer weighting them myself until i am sure they will hang the way i want, cutting an half-inch off the back will resolve some problems as well if it doesnt do anything at all.
chrisA |
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| I like the twitch twitch pause, twitch twitch twitch twitch pause, hard pull.
really! The short twitches that get that thing to dance are crucial, but the pauses are what create 9 out of ten strikes for me. Expecially at boat or shoreside. |
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| Hard jerks to get the bait going from side to side and roll up onto its side not to much slack. I don't want my "hawgs" to glide much I have some real good Jerkos for that. I like the Reef Hawg more as a jerk bait rather than a glider. Just my preference.
Let Em Go...Let Em Grow.....Mike |
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