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| is there a video of the action a reef hawg is suppose to have anywhere? Is it a WTD or is it just a random darting motion. Help if you can. thanks |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Work it like a suick for best results, 3-4 foot sweeps. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | I don't have any videos that I'd be able to upload here, but if 4 people uploaded, there would be 4 completely different ways to work a reef hawg shown, none of them wrong. In the mean time, it really depends on the individual lure. A good 6"er can be used as a darting side to side dog walker, and also bump down and out with the best of em. Many 6"ers work best with a series of quick short pulls, slack snaps and bursts of the reel. 8"ers require a slightly longer pull to get em down, longer typically being about 2' with 4' typically too long, blowing the lure out a bit more oft than you might like. 10"-2' pulls and snaps, with an occasional longer pull to change the tempo often works with the bigger ones, with key pauses tossed in.
The beauty is there are really no two alike. You can weight them to get every one to be a side to side lure, while some just use a new one for a day or so to incur some hook rash and allow to take on a bit of water. What the next person calls incorrect, might be what the fish like on your water.
While used for far fewer hours overall now, they are still great spot duty/situational lures, accounting for a decent share of overall catches.
Edited by Reef Hawg 9/19/2011 10:20 AM
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | A Reef Hawg has no preprogrammed action whatsoever. I prefer to not have it repete the same pattern twice in a row if I can help it, and the more erratic I can make them run the better. My favorite is to rip the snot out of a weighted one as it first hits the water, no pause, just a simultaneous splash and rip. Then let it coast left or right or up or down or where ever it goes for a second or two before I start working it back. You can get bit often right as the lure starts to coast so be ready. Sometimes the lure will actually jump out of the water on the rip. Looks a lot more alive than something that goes back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and ...yawn...... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Exactly. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | I have a rating system on my Hawgs written on the bottom. Just a quick clue as to the weight and possibly action of a particular bait. I never met a reef hawg that was not fishy. If you find one add a little weight to the tail and you have a whole new bait. |
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| completely agree with almost b good. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | "My favorite is to rip the snot out of a weighted one as it first hits the water, no pause, just a simultaneous splash and rip. Then let it coast left or right or up or down or where ever it goes for a second or two before I start working it back."
Agreed. That second or two(often less) 'coast' is what I consider a pause, and the timeframe when the majority of fish hit for me. Talking with Mike Mculund(sp) of Fudally during an order awhile back, we spoke about just how many favorite retrieves we have for the lure depending on the sitch and he stated how he just learned a 'new' technique from a first time Musky fisherwoman while pre-fishing for a tourney. The way she tapped the rod, gave it a near perfect head up head down motion, almost on an axis. He was about to tell her to make the jerks and pulls a bit more erratic, but never got the chance. It turned out to be what worked that weekend. Using a few of them in different sizes with varying retrieve types from crazy to subdued will allow you to see just how versatile the lure can be, and importantly revealing when fish in that situation typically hit the lure for you.
Edited by Reef Hawg 9/19/2011 10:01 PM
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