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Topic subjectRE: under represented forage
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5886, RE: under represented forage
Posted by Nico, Fri Mar-04-05 07:32 PM
5 inch senkos, the natural prey of the largemouth bass

A bait that looked and swam like a bluegill would be epic. Unfortunately I don't think most bluegill swim around the lake in straight lines waiting to be eaten like trout do. Thus the typical swimbait style fishing won't be as natural. Bluegill like to suspend motionless around heavy cover, or dart erraticly chasing tasty bugs.

Maybe the best bluegill swimbait would be a weedless soft plastic that sinks very slowly like a Huddleston ROF 5. You could let it sit in the weeds and pop it around kind of like you retrieve a senko (every thing works better when you fish it like a senko).

Carp and suckers do seem to swim around aimlessly a lot. A carp shaped swimbait might work well fished in the standard way.

What I would really like is a good underwater frog pattern. Bass obviously adore frogs and I see frogs swimming around in open water all the time. Frogs like bullfrogs dive down into vegetation when they're spooked. How could we imitate a frog swimming down into vegetation?