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NicoFri Mar-04-05 07:32 PM
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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?


  

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under represented forage [View all] , swimbait, Fri Mar-04-05 01:16 PM
  RE: under represented forage, Sacto John, Mar 04th 2005, #1
RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #2
      RE: under represented forage, Tm Customs, Mar 04th 2005, #3
           RE: under represented forage, SJ, Mar 04th 2005, #4
           RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #5
                RE: under represented forage, woodsac, Mar 04th 2005, #6
                RE: under represented forage, FISH JC, Mar 04th 2005, #7
                     so this is ironic, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #8
                Insects, Urban, Mar 06th 2005, #19
                     RE: Insects, Sacto John, Mar 07th 2005, #24
           RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #9
                RE: under represented forage, bassnet, Mar 04th 2005, #10
                RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #11
                     RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #21
                RE: under represented forage, BillH, Mar 23rd 2005, #30
RE: under represented forage, Nico, Mar 04th 2005 #12
RE: under represented forage, Mattlures, Mar 04th 2005, #13
RE: under represented forage, bassnet, Mar 04th 2005, #14
RE: under represented forage, socalfrogger, Mar 31st 2005, #34
RE: under represented forage, swimbait, Mar 04th 2005, #15
RE: under represented forage, bassinzink, Mar 05th 2005, #16
      RE: under represented forage, FISH JC, Mar 20th 2005, #29
RE: small birds?, wils, Mar 05th 2005, #17
RE: funny lures, bass to the end, Mar 05th 2005, #18
RE: under represented forage, salmonoid 1, Mar 06th 2005, #20
RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #22
RE: under represented forage, Chris, Mar 07th 2005, #23
RE: under represented forage, Criley, Mar 07th 2005, #25
      RE: under represented forage, Lightninrod, Mar 08th 2005, #26
           RE: under represented forage, nathan, Mar 09th 2005, #27
                RE: under represented forage, Criley, Mar 09th 2005, #28
                     RE: under represented forage, magmaster, Mar 25th 2005, #31
                          RE: under represented forage, Samurai TI, Mar 27th 2005, #32
                               RE: under represented forage, Tim Gago, Mar 30th 2005, #33

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