ARTIFICIAL LURES Soft Plastics: Mimic baitfish and are effective for all sorts of local game fish
After catching a big pike or any musky, Ill cut off about 6 ft of line, just to make sure all my knots are new, and the line is free of nicks that could have occurred during the fight
Slab DocktR The heavy-bodied Slab DocktR was designed for dock shooting (thus the dock in its name), a technique in which you want the bait, not the jighead, to be your weight. The reasoning is that a bait will skip when launched from a rod flexed like an archers bow and fired, whereas the jighead is more likely to bury upon striking the waters surface
Keeping the lure moving, but not overpowered, leads to the best results
A Tiagra 50 with an all-roller rod and aluminum butt is 2 pounds heavier than a Talica 50 with the new Terez rod featuring a carbon butt, says Gant
They recycled plastic bags into giantic goldfish