Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3904 Feb 1-14 | Page 7

HOW TO... VOL.39 • ISS. 4 Jan 31 - Feb 14, 2020 5 For Key Lures… > For stripers, black bass and even trout, vibrating crankbaits like the crawfish pattern bait shown here are winners. In open water, batifish patterns work well. For rocky areas, crawfish patterns are deadly. You can fish them fast or slow, deep or shallow and they flat out catch fish. presents Four Lures Every Freshwater Angler Should Have < Heavy spoons are outstanding for multiple species because they are versatile. You can troll them, cast them or even jig with them. Half ounce Hum Dingers like the ones shown here are among the best! > Grubs are deadly for a number of different species including trout. Here we see Cal Kellogg’s Grub Trolling Kit. It includes 25 grubs in 5 deadly colors and two different sizes, along with a pair of Sidewinder Dodgers and a Gibbs Diamond Dazzler snelled spinner. To get your kit, go to FishHuntShoot.Com. A A bunch of different companies offer nglers love lures. If you doubt floating minnow plugs. Plastic models this simply take a walk around a store that sells fishing tackle, be it are produced by companies like Rebel, Fisherman’s Warehouse, Kittles or Bomber and River2Sea, while wooden even a big box store like K-Mart and minnows are offered by firms like you’ll find an extensive Rapala and Bagley. Floating selection of artificial minnows from all these lures, big ones, small companies and more produce ones, lures made of metal, a range of different gamefish plastic and wood, lures and all of them have adamant that sink and lures that supporters within the angling float, lures that represent community. every color of the For most, the original rainbow, lures for trout, Rapala floater sets the bass, stripers and even standard by which all others crappie. are measured. Here are just a Most of us that have few of the ways that Rapalas been fishing for a while be used. For trout by Cal Kellogg can have dozens upon dozens Rapalas can be trolled or they of lures if not hundreds can be fan casted from the bank or of lures. I was recently talking to from a boat. a fishing buddy and the subject of In terms of trout, Rapalas are equally lures came up. More specifically we effective for river or still water fishing discussed which lures were best and and they will tempt strikes from which lures never seemed to produce. planters, holdovers and wild fish. I’ve Before long we found ourselves found Rapalas in the 2 to 4 inch range postulating a list of lures that were most effective for trout, but both tiny absolutely indispensable for fishing models and magnum models perform lakes, reservoir and rivers in Cali- well in the right situation. fornia and beyond. For bass Rapalas can be worked Now I’ll readily admit when the on the surface, reeled steadily like a going gets tough I often rig up with crankbait or they can be manipulated natural bait, namely a dirty threaded beneath the surface with a pause and worm, yet I love my collection of slash style. This is the method that lures as much as any angler. bass pros refer to as “ripping”. So the question is which of my lures I’m addicted to working Rapala wouldn’t I want to be without? Well floaters as surface baits for small- after much thought I’ve come up mouths and spots. Hit your favorite with a list of four “must have” lures lake on an early morning during the for freshwater fishing. To make the spring, toss a 4 inch floater over a list the lure had to be versatile and shallow rock pile and let it sit until it had to be effective for tempting a the rings disappear and then twitch range of different game fish, not just the bait beneath the surface a foot or trout or bass or salmon. Let’s dive in! so and then let it float back up to the CONTINUED ON PG 21 Floating Minnow Plug FISH SNIFFER HOW – TO < Minnow plugs have a shape and action that makes them highly attractive to many different predatory species including bass, trout, stripers, salmon and more. They can be trolled, casted or worked as surface lures with equal effectiveness depending on the situation.