In Australia news for new Soft Plastic Lure Stick-Bait, with its simple elongated-minnow design, is one of the most unique and effective Bass Lure to come along in years. Although it appears as though it would be as lifeless as a stick, it performs with an irresistible action that sets it apart from any other lures in an angler’s tackle box. To rig the soft-plastics stick-baits, use an offset worm hook and no weight. After tying your line to the vennon hooks, thread the point about ½ inches into the lure’s blunt nose, and push it out the bottom. Pull the hook through until the hook eye is hidden just inside the tip of the Madeye Lures (lurehq.com.au). When done properly, the lure will hang straight and the hook’s point will lie exposed but protected in a shallow groove along the back of the Soft Plastic Lure making it virtually snag free. At least two of the half dozen-plus fishing soft plastics stick-baits currently on the market feature shallow grooves that hide the Vennon Hooks inside the bait. Because it takes a strong hook-set to embed the large hook, match the lure with 12-pound-test line and a medium or medium-heavy action rod. Some anglers go as high as 20-Pound line when fishing around abrasive cover. A 5½-foot bait-casting rod with a pistol grip does an excellent job of serving up the plastic stick-bait and imparting its seductive action.
Lurehq.com.au Company provides the most common method of the Soft Plastic Lure is to retrieve it just beneath the surface next to or over any typical weed, wood, or rock cover bass frequent in the shallows. After casting, hold the rod tip to the side and close to the water and work it with a rhythmic twitch-pause cadence while taking up slack with the reel between twitches. This make the lightweight lure sashay back and forth with the dog walking action of a top-water stick-bait. The advantage of fishing with one of this Soft Plastic Lure is that the lively and erratic action they produce more closely emulates a dying minnow than do hard-bodied stick-baits or any other Fishing Soft Plastics lures. Since the lure is snag resistant, you can purposely bump it into objects and fish it tight to cover that is off limits to treble-hooked lures. It can be retrieved non-stop all the way back to the boat, or twitched three of four times between longer pauses. During a long pause, the plastic stick-bait will dart off to one side and slowly descend like a minnow suffering its death throes. Be alert, since this is when strikes often occur. You’ll see many bass come up after this lure with a fervor that makes for electrifying moments which require crucial execution on your part. If you set the hook the instant the bass swirls, you may pull the Fishing Soft Plastics away before the fish has fully engulfed it. Try to maintain your poise and hesitate for just a second while dropping the rod trip; then take up slack line with a few cranks on the reel, and snap the hook home fast and hard, just as if you were fishing with a Soft Plastic Lure Worm.
Should a bass strike and miss, immediately stop retrieving and let the lure fall. The odds are in your favor that the bass will circle back and take it in. Bass professionals have been the first to catch on the benefits of using Soft Plastic Lure Stick-Baits, and these lures have quickly become a dominating force on major tournament circuits across the country. At plastic stick-baits were thought to be mainly for shallow springtime bass lure fishing in clear water; but they have proven to be much more versatile, readily taking bass from early spring through fall, in murky-to-clear water conditions. Generally, you’ll want to slow the retrieve rhythm in cold water and speed things up in warmer water. At other times Fishing Soft Plastics Stick-Baits are more effective when allowed to sink and worked 3 or 4 feet beneath the surface. You won’t see strikes with this method, but you will sense a sudden heaviness, which is the tip-off that a bass has taken the lure.
Some anglers clip off the points of nails and insert them into the heads of these lures for additional weight when using subsurface retrieves. Another popular trick is to insert rattles into the tails of the Soft Plastic Lure to add the allure of sound. For deep structure Fishing Soft Plastics, Rig the plastic stick-bait Carolina-style with an 18-inch to 4-foot leader behind a swivel, plastic bead, and a 1-ounce bullet sinker. Plastic stick-baits lures are available in sizes as small as 4½ inches, which offer a good alternative when bass are feeding mainly on small bait-fish or are too finicky to go for the larger sizes. While basic shad colors are the most popular, these lures are available in a wide variety of color combinations including flakes and two-tones.
Varieties of Soft Plastic Lure Stick-Baits currently on the market have split tails, flat tails, and realistic bait-fish shapes. For information from the manufacturers of the Fishing Soft Plastics Lures pictured on the preceding page, contact Mr. Jadon Wilder (http://lurehq.com.au/). It would be to your advantage to try a number of these lures on your favorite bass waters. They may not look like much in their respective packages, but when you put them in water and twitch, they spring to life with an unparalleled action that will readily convince you and the bass that these Fishing Soft Plastics Stick-Baits are something special.
Lurehq.com.au Company provides the most common method of the Soft Plastic Lure is to retrieve it just beneath the surface next to or over any typical weed, wood, or rock cover bass frequent in the shallows. After casting, hold the rod tip to the side and close to the water and work it with a rhythmic twitch-pause cadence while taking up slack with the reel between twitches. This make the lightweight lure sashay back and forth with the dog walking action of a top-water stick-bait. The advantage of fishing with one of this Soft Plastic Lure is that the lively and erratic action they produce more closely emulates a dying minnow than do hard-bodied stick-baits or any other Fishing Soft Plastics lures. Since the lure is snag resistant, you can purposely bump it into objects and fish it tight to cover that is off limits to treble-hooked lures. It can be retrieved non-stop all the way back to the boat, or twitched three of four times between longer pauses. During a long pause, the plastic stick-bait will dart off to one side and slowly descend like a minnow suffering its death throes. Be alert, since this is when strikes often occur. You’ll see many bass come up after this lure with a fervor that makes for electrifying moments which require crucial execution on your part. If you set the hook the instant the bass swirls, you may pull the Fishing Soft Plastics away before the fish has fully engulfed it. Try to maintain your poise and hesitate for just a second while dropping the rod trip; then take up slack line with a few cranks on the reel, and snap the hook home fast and hard, just as if you were fishing with a Soft Plastic Lure Worm.
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| (Diagram A illustrates the basic retrieve for soft plastic lure stick-baits, which involves twitching them with a low rod tip just beneath the surface over and near typical bass cover in the shallows. When bass are unwilling to come up to the surface, let the lure sink and retrieve it 3 or 4 feet beneath the surface, as shown in Diagram B) |
Some anglers clip off the points of nails and insert them into the heads of these lures for additional weight when using subsurface retrieves. Another popular trick is to insert rattles into the tails of the Soft Plastic Lure to add the allure of sound. For deep structure Fishing Soft Plastics, Rig the plastic stick-bait Carolina-style with an 18-inch to 4-foot leader behind a swivel, plastic bead, and a 1-ounce bullet sinker. Plastic stick-baits lures are available in sizes as small as 4½ inches, which offer a good alternative when bass are feeding mainly on small bait-fish or are too finicky to go for the larger sizes. While basic shad colors are the most popular, these lures are available in a wide variety of color combinations including flakes and two-tones.
Varieties of Soft Plastic Lure Stick-Baits currently on the market have split tails, flat tails, and realistic bait-fish shapes. For information from the manufacturers of the Fishing Soft Plastics Lures pictured on the preceding page, contact Mr. Jadon Wilder (http://lurehq.com.au/). It would be to your advantage to try a number of these lures on your favorite bass waters. They may not look like much in their respective packages, but when you put them in water and twitch, they spring to life with an unparalleled action that will readily convince you and the bass that these Fishing Soft Plastics Stick-Baits are something special.
