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| There has been a lot of talk recently about shallow soft plastic lures and now I would like to talk about the opposite. Something I have not tried yet is a fast sinking 6” Suzy Sucker or Curly Sue. The lures would have an extra ounce of lead over the standard baits. I am going to make a couple in the morning and if I get time give them test on Sunday to see what happens. They could be good for jigging or working really deep. Is there a demand for something like this? Perhaps with the belly treble removed they could be used in shallow sandy areas jigged or dragged along the bottom as they should kick up a sand cloud like a sucker feeding on the bottom.
Edited by Shack Attack 5/2/2008 4:27 PM
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| I think pretty much the same can be accomplished by adding an egg sinker, and I think you will lose a lot more fish if you just have the top single hook to work with. ADDING more weight is easy to accomplish in various scenarios, it's REMOVING weight that is difficult if not impossible to do when the situation arises. That's when a manufacturer's "shallow" version is a must-have. IMO, can't see too much of a demand for them.
Just my 0.02 cents.
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Location: Land of the Musky | Andy-Just curious on this but isn't there a soft polymer that floats? If you put all the weight in the head could you essentially get your lure to stand on its nose? That would be pretty cool IMO. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Sounds like now you are getting closer to the jig and creature fisherman. Downscaling in size to get more bites. I made a jig for a guy out east that wanted to have his swimbait stand up on the bottom. 1 1/2 oz jig I called BIG FOOT, because I would toss the jig on the carpeting and every time it would stand up. That would mean with the water as a drag on your plastic, the jig would always stand on the floor of the lake...unless there was rock present where there was a uneven bottom. Like my paddletails that have cork in the tail, to stand off the floor of the lake in front of their nose wagglin.
Andy, It will catch fish But you would have to incorporate some kind of single hook, Not too beefy..Possibly a two hook system that the hooks would ride up.
JIM 
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| Something of that nature might work well in late fall when jigging seems to outproduce casting. Much like the fuzzyduzit is used. The dropshot idea comes into play as well like in Bondy's article. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | At one of the shows this winter I got 3 Hevy 9" BullDawgs from M-I, they have 2 holes in the fin and have 1oz more weight in them for fast sink. |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | I'd buy them if they were bigger than 6". If you can make some customs that way I'd buy a couple. The hardest part of fishing deep is waiting for the bait to get there. A heavier bait might also keep the bait deep when you are bringing it in at more than a crawl. Nothing worse than waiting for a bait to get to 25ft and it ends up 10 ft down halfway through the retrieve. I really like that idea of "standing" when on the bottom. |
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Fast Sinking 6" Suzy Sucker/Curly Sue.