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Fishing News and Reports => Fish Pictures and Success Stories => Topic started by: Les Young on 07/06/20 10:54 UTC
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I’ll have to say I was really surprised with this grub over the weekend. I had 3 smallmouth over 18” on them & 2 largemouth the same size Saturday night & the same last night. The thing is my buddy which is an outstanding jig fishermen was flat wearing them out too, but only had one 18” plus smallmouth which is just a keeper here.?Another buddy only had 1 keeper largemouth Sunday night The grub was definitely the difference in getting the bigger bites for sure. The other jigs were fished with zoom swimming, ultra vibe & super chunk jr. trailers which are usually the go to in this country. I’ll have to say i’m liking these grins for sure. Now I have to make more for tomorrow nights tournament. ;D
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We’re you swimming the 3” single or the 4” twin tail. I’ve used the 3” single tail with great success in smoke with silver halo, yellow chartreuse with lime and copper, Flo blue with silver halo, root beer with gold and black. Motor oil with gold and red, purple with Canadian blue and green. All colors are transparent so the flake really pops. Plus each color has UV powder in them.
Hope you have a fun tournament !!!!!!
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I was using the 3" single tail. I was actually making a bunch of the other trailer styles i mentioned & only had a little plastic left so i thought i'd shoot the grub mold to see what they looked like in sapphire blue after i had to strip the paint off after i tried to paint them to make the baits shiny. Needless to say they worked great & were almost identical to zooms saphire blue. I think that the grub that definitely has a different thump then the other trailers & was the difference maker. I know there won'y be any moonlight in time tomorrow night until after my tournament, but i made up a bunch of green pumpkin colored ones to try then to see if i get the same results as far as bites go. I also have an all nighter Friday that i'll be using them in to see if the bite quality is better with them. One thing for sure if the bites are better i sure won't be telling anybody about them. :-X
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Good luck Les!
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Hope they get a positive response. And I know what you mean about trying to keep something special color for your self. Had two guy fishing last year ask to see what I was using for walleye’s in the fall.
So I threw it in there boat to the guy in the back and he picked it up and said to the guy in the front have you ever seen this color before then he asked me we’re I got it and I said I made and all was ha It sure works for walleye’s.
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Had two guy fishing last year ask to see what I was using for walleye’s in the fall.
So I threw it in there boat to the guy in the back and he picked it up and said to the guy in the front have you ever seen this color before then he asked me we’re I got it and I said I made and all was ha It sure works for walleye’s.
I can't count how many times that's happened since I began injecting my own. Other than clear or white I don't think I make a color right out of the bottle....always a blend of two or three colors or an off-setting hi lite color. Blue hi lites in hot pinks and chartreuses makes these simple colors turn a corner that really opens eyes.
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I can't count how many times that's happened since I began injecting my own. Other than clear or white I don't think I make a color right out of the bottle....always a blend of two or three colors or an off-setting hi lite color. Blue hi lites in hot pinks and chartreuses makes these simple colors turn a corner that really opens eyes.
I blend a lot of colors too. I just made something like zooms tomato with cherry seed, white & yellow the other night for my hair jigs & i also use brown base green pumpkin, green base green pumpkin & yellow to make my green pumpkin.
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Lureworks merthiolate is a color that when added to either fluorescent orange or hot pink can really make them crank. The merthiolate has both fluorescent orange and hot pink in it. A little goes a long way with it when mixed into the flo orange or hot pink, but sure makes them singular in color when compared to most retail baits.
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I love the 3" es grub the only thing I didn't like about it was the dull finish. I been thinking about picking that mold up again and masking it off and give a good coat of high temp engine heat paint to give the gloss look. I wish Do It would make the 3" in a cnc mold. I currently have the 3.8" OG Grub mold and its really awesome. I just need to figure out the right size hook I need for the OG Grub. I mostly catfish and panfish never really got into Bass a lot but I'm giving it another shot just so much to learn. I think what got me started was catching Hybrid Stripers here with this Bass thing.
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I love the 3" es grub the only thing I didn't like about it was the dull finish. I been thinking about picking that mold up again and masking it off and give a good coat of high temp engine heat paint to give the gloss look. I wish Do It would make the 3" in a cnc mold. I currently have the 3.8" OG Grub mold and its really awesome. I just need to figure out the right size hook I need for the OG Grub. I mostly catfish and panfish never really got into Bass a lot but I'm giving it another shot just so much to learn. I think what got me started was catching Hybrid Stripers here with this Bass thing.
Shaun i painted mine with 1200* high heat paint & had to strip it back off. The stripper i used brought the dull finish off & left a gray like aluminium finish on the ground where i sprayed them down. Now my baits are shiny.
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Jared Lintner had a grubbin Video on tackle wearhouse just yesterday It was fun to watch even when we know how to do it
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Jared Lintner had a grubbin Video on tackle wearhouse just yesterday It was fun to watch even when we know how to do it
Walleye Wacker, thinks i’ll check it out.
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By the way i lost a big one last night that cost us a second place win. Again my buddy that i fished with saturday night saw the grub getting more & by far the bigger bites. Now i have to make him some & we'll be competition against each other Friday night. :'(
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That’s tuff when it’s a friend and fishing partner. Go stickem Les .
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Doesn't bother me at all. He's fishing with his son & i'll have my normal partner. The buddy use to be my tournament partner & we won a whole lot together. We fish together when we can & are fishing a Tuesday nighter right now together.
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Give him the very best lures. That way if he wins with your baits, you win him and his son forever. ( Jesus 101. )
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Believe me he’s had plenty of my Baits. That’s why he wanted me to make him some. He believes in them. lol
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believing in what your using is a big part of success.
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Most of the money he & i have won for the last several years have either been on plastics that we come up with our own, but different versions of popular colors or else using jigs with my trailers on them. I've won several with baby brush hogs, super hogs & tubes that i make & any time i throw a jig my trailers are on them. I made over 100 different jig trailers in 4 different styles today in one popular color. That will last us a while. ;D
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We couldn't keep em hooked up lastnight. My buddy & his son did have a limit, but were one place out of the money. This tournament only pays 3 places & big fish so it's easy to miss the cut. Easy to do when the top 3 are all within less then a pound of each other. Had over 40 boats & several of them are sticks.
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I'd say 1 place short of the money is still really good.
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I'd say 1 place short of the money is still really good.
We've done it several times so far this year. If you beat the guys i'm talking about you've done something for sure. Use to do it a lot, but these guys are simply just better than the old competition. Of course i may be sucking a lot worse nowadays too. ;D