Author Topic: If you could only fish one Do-it plastic bait and one lead bait...  (Read 6028 times)

Offline andrewlamberson

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If you could only fish one Do-it plastic bait (you could rig it multiple ways) and one Do-it lead bait...what would they be?

Mine would be a 3" tube and a swim jig (casting jig).

On both baits I've caught largemouth, smallmouth, walleye, sauger, northern pike, crappies, white bass, sheephead and catfish.




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Offline jl3140

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3" frog, I've never tried any of the do-it lead line yet but the 3" frog rigged on a 3/0 hook with a wire bait keeper on the front.

Offline Jerry V

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The tube is very hard to beat for multi species and various water/climate differences.  It would rank very high on my list, but for the sake of opening things up a bit I'll take the Boss Hog 4.25.  When you consider the ways you can shorten it up and or take off appendages to suit... it's a pretty versatile bait.

When it comes to lead... I can't help but lean toward the Weedless Poison Tail Jig.  There just isn't many things that you CAN'T do with that jig.  It's as versatile as it gets in any condition and a go to for me when I'm headed to places I've never been before.

good topic Andy, a real "thinker".

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Offline Denny Welch

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For me, it's the 4" skirted chub grub on a 3/8 oz. football head.  I like to use a head that has been powder coated to match, generally, the color of the grub.  It's a flat out fish catcher when fished in, by and through the rocks.
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Offline Justin9j

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5in skinny carrot. 

Lead would be a shaky head. With a Ewg. I put about any plastic on it. From beavers to swim shads. 

Offline Brent

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2.50 fry~ universal will catch small fish, will catch big fish, pinch the tail your ready to ice fish. Once the tail is off push some marabou in the body and you have a fuzzy grub type bait.

Lead bait would have to be ZV vibrating lure, it would give me a search lure, can be rigged multiple ways, can be fished multiple ways.

I feel with these 2 I can fish both shallow as well as deep. Search for active fish and then once located finesse fish. I can even combine the two and end up with a vibrations tackle style lure.

Last but not least I could take 12" of mono from the rear hook and have the fry as a trailer which would work for trolling

Offline WALLEYE WACKER

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With so many great baits it's hard to pick one but being a walleye /pike nut I would go with 3.5"swim shad with the wire keeper tear drop jig. my second would be 4" flippin zip with same jig. have had great luck with both on walleye,pike and some bass. mike
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Offline pieterbez

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4" Carrot Weightless
Poison Tail Jig With Flutter Craw Chunk for big fish
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Offline Shane70

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Well mine is not a Do-It mold or bait. BUT Give me a lawn chair, cane pole with line, hook and bobber, with a worm and a beer.....  I'm in HOG HEAVEN  :P

Offline Lamar

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  The six inch dragon tail. You can make that bait into so many different baits and fish it a lot of ways. I like it best with a 1/8 oz shacky head. And it's a fish catching fool. My partner fishes that bait non stop. And I hate it and will only fish it when that's all that will catch fish. I would much rather flip a jig with a craw. As a general rule I will not catch as many but they'll be bigger. So I let him fill the limit and I work on the kickers. It's a good one two punch.
   If I had to only ever fish one bait I would pick the good old standard jig with a grub. You can catch anything that swims on that.

Offline ctom

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A Dubuque rig using a 3/4 ounce flathead jig tied with purple over chartreuse bucktail as the weight on the dropper line and a 3.5" super fry fished on a #2 salmon-egg style hook off the rear line about 15" in stiff current or a drop shot hook in quieter water.
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Offline t-billy

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 3.5 twin tail Chub Grub and the Do-it Grass Jig. That jig will come through some gnarly stuff cleanly. That's if I can add a skirt to the jig, if not I'd go with the skirted grub. ---Tim.
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Offline sim

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arky jig - craw trailer - I get my choice of skirts and plastic colors, right?

Offline MO QWACK

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Curl tail worm works on top, swimming, bottum, its weedless and bite it off and you have a curl tail grub

Offline Denny Welch

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Uh..wouldn't the fish have the curl tail grub?  All you'd have is a beat-up old worm with teeth marks on it.
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