What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?
What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?
For me it has to be the tried, tested and true. Heddon's Zara Spook. It is my favorite lure bar none. I can always pull up a chunky Bronze Back or Pike on this topwater lure.
My favorite memories with this lure?
The sun was setting on my favorite lake, the water was like a pitch black sheet of glass. I was drifting down a point, and making a slow, tantalizing 'zig....pause...zag' retrieve with my spook.
When all of a sudden this pike, smashes the lure, clears the water a good three feet, its tail still pumping ferociously..than it spashes down a foot away from my lure!!
Or another time, I made a fast return with my spook, than as I lifted the spook from the water to re-cast, this pike from out of nowhere charges my lure! Kicking up a foam, I nearly crap my pants!!
My god, I love my Zara Spook!
My favorite memories with this lure?
The sun was setting on my favorite lake, the water was like a pitch black sheet of glass. I was drifting down a point, and making a slow, tantalizing 'zig....pause...zag' retrieve with my spook.
When all of a sudden this pike, smashes the lure, clears the water a good three feet, its tail still pumping ferociously..than it spashes down a foot away from my lure!!
Or another time, I made a fast return with my spook, than as I lifted the spook from the water to re-cast, this pike from out of nowhere charges my lure! Kicking up a foam, I nearly crap my pants!!
My god, I love my Zara Spook!
Last edited by Canmoore on Thu May 14, 2009 9:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: What is everyones 'Go-To' Lure?
err... double post?
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Pop-R, modified... I buy'em and sand-em down till they are bone-white all over... if they did not have a red-bucktail treble on the end, they get one in my process.. i'll even throw some crystal-flash on there... (been thinking about using maraboo as a tail... )
I'm sure someone makes those standard, but I like modifying em, and I have not seen any in a long while...
I like it in standard size...
I'm sure someone makes those standard, but I like modifying em, and I have not seen any in a long while...
I like it in standard size...
yeah, I used to use the Berkley Frenzie 'Walker'. Basically a Zara Spook, I caught more fish on that than the Original Heddon model.Hookup wrote:Pop-R, modified... I buy'em and sand-em down till they are bone-white all over... if they did not have a red-bucktail treble on the end, they get one in my process.. i'll even throw some crystal-flash on there... (been thinking about using maraboo as a tail... )
I'm sure someone makes those standard, but I like modifying em, and I have not seen any in a long while...
I like it in standard size...
Hell, I have even caught seagulls on it! (not on purpose of course)
However, I have not seen one in years, and I lost mine to a toothy pike.
I think that Berkley has stopped production of them (I will pay somoene, if you have one!! It HAS to be the 'Ghost' pattern.
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My go to lures depends on the fish targetted,
Eyes-- spinner rig(Worm harness) behind a bottom bouncer.
Pike spinnerbaits.
Large mouth slop -- frog
Large mouth---- spinnerbait
Smallie - senkos
catfish hook and sinker
Eyes-- spinner rig(Worm harness) behind a bottom bouncer.
Pike spinnerbaits.
Large mouth slop -- frog
Large mouth---- spinnerbait
Smallie - senkos
catfish hook and sinker
When hell freezes over, I'll be there icefishing!!!
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If you can't stand behind our troops,
Please feel free to stand in front of them!!!
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again
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pike
white spinner bait
super spook
senko wakey rigged
x rap
buzz bait
chatterbait
walleye
a jig head with berkley gulp alive and a leech
sometimes thell hit on my white spinner baits
bass
senko white
x rap
super spook jr.
white spinner bait
chatterbait
buzz bait
thouse couple of lures have never failed me
white spinner bait
super spook
senko wakey rigged
x rap
buzz bait
chatterbait
walleye
a jig head with berkley gulp alive and a leech
sometimes thell hit on my white spinner baits
bass
senko white
x rap
super spook jr.
white spinner bait
chatterbait
buzz bait
thouse couple of lures have never failed me