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| Excellent thread!!!! Keep 'em coming!!! How bout other mods like tail spinners?
Has anyone thrown 'Dawgs in heavy wood? Would a Shallow Mag stay shallow enough to not get snagged up in a stump field in, say, 6 FOW? |
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| how good does that flap tail work??? |
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Location: Norway | I usually rig them like this (see image) that way I can bottomcrawl them with less bottom hookups. I also cut the back hook ( havent done that on this img) if not it tends to roll over.
I also use just 1 treble nowadays.
Michael
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| That's brilliant too bud. So many guys like these baits and I have no doubt they're as good as they say (BullDawg.....now THERE's a New! Hot! Unique! Must-Have! Totallly alone in terms if everything about it, it's own category/niche) I want to rig mine up to fish the way I want to fish it so I will fish with it more often. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Lambeau, that thing is UGLY!! LOL but looks sweet in the water. I think you should put some scent on a que tip and impale that in the dawg for a little smell for the big dawgs. |
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| Pikopath,
I like your mods on the dawg.. I have several 7 strand dawgs that are chewed up and have broken wire.. Looks like I could rig them the way you have your dawg rigged... |
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| Mods are something to toy with for sure..the flap tail idea I might try...JJ have you had a situation where you had a non flap tail dawg and flap tail dawg going head to head and are you convinced the flap tail will out produce the non-mod one in all situations?
Sometimes I think we think too hard and screw up a good thing...for me, the dawg just the way it is catches plenty of fish...will and do I tinker..sure..but to a degree..has the tinsel dawg caught any fish Lambeau? I had thought about putting some tinsel on the head of the dawg earlier this year so that on each pull/pause it would pulsate at the head or I had thought to put it on the belly...but not the tail...so we were sorta thinking the same thing...
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| bn - 12/15/2006 8:00 AM
Mods are something to toy with for sure..the flap tail idea I might try...JJ have you had a situation where you had a non flap tail dawg and flap tail dawg going head to head and are you convinced the flap tail will out produce the non-mod one in all situations?
Brad, to answer your first question...yes we have had both going and guess what? BOTH caught fish. and to answer your second question...no. It just looks good in the water so I do it.
I agree with you...that these mods are not neccesary...but i think the flap tail might work better in certain situations...after dark might be one. It is just fun to tinker with baits...
My dawgs get destroyed, i have a pile that are almost just set aside for parts...but when they lose tails, the flap tail is a good alternative. Just something to keep in mind.
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Location: Norway | jclymer - 12/15/2006 7:56 AM
Pikopath,
I like your mods on the dawg.. I have several 7 strand dawgs that are chewed up and have broken wire.. Looks like I could rig them the way you have your dawg rigged...
If youre lucky the hooks come loose from the plastic, and the dawg itself will hang outside the mouth of the fish, and that way you can also save it from being chewed up and you can arrange the hooks where you want it.
Now a days I use a splitring instead of a snap for the rigged wires.
Showing it on a black dawg with black wire, wasnt the best, but you get the idea.
Michael |
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Location: Hartland, WI | Here is the flap tail i put on my dawgs. Very simple. Sorry it took a while, all my baits are with my boat in storage. I was able to get to them today.
JJ
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| Great ideas guys! Just curious what kind of glues are you using to replace the tails? I've been experimenting with a couple different brands and haven't had much luck.
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Location: Hartland, WI | seems like the only way to go is by melting them. Good old fire does the trick. The glue systems that are out there, that had so much hype last winter dont seem to work well. they just get to hard and crack. i know it is a pain...but a bic or a blow torch seem to work the best!
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | For that burning that JJ speaks of:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/4433348/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd...
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Location: Hartland, WI | freaking nice SLAMR!!!
that looks perfect.
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| For a much less expensive alternative I have a small butane lighter I got at Gander for I think 10 bucks...grab a can of the butane that you refill it with for another 5-10 and it has lasted a very long time...thing gets HOT...fast...works great on dawgs/joes etc...only thing is keep it in your pocket in cooler temps as it takes a bit to get hot in the really cold weather...
it's silver with a flip up cap...it is nice... |
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Location: Racine, Wi | With Slamr's blowtorch, you can toast some flan while working on dawgs too. Yummay!!!! |
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| BN, the reason that I did my first mods was to hold damaged dawgs together better.
Instead of putting the hook through a spot that has been heated, thinned and weakened, I put a single hook through the middle of the patch with some super glue on it to hopefully hold the 2 pieces together better and hope that they last longer. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | A little more practical torch is available from Radio Shack. Small enough to fit in any tackle box, refillable w/butane, and comes with 2 tips for better heat control. I believe they sell for about $20. An added bonus, the butane reservoir is clear, so you can always tell how much fuel is available. |
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| My old buddy muskie_man and I saw about 10 fish yesterday on those wonderful gobs of rubber but could'nt get any eaters. In the small stream we were fishing they were probably freaked out by our dawgs and just had to look. We even had a double follow. Not 1 strike though. Maybe we will get a couple for Christmas on Sat.
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