slug o's, are they realy effective??? bc i was thinkin about tryin some

what size should i use & what kind should i use the ones with the fin or no fin?

do a sluggo search.
i asked a while back.... see if i can find the thread

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=31474

fast forward a few months

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=32786

my favorite plastic bait frest and salt water... and they can be fished so many ways.. jighead, texas rigged, or those intense double hookrigs with tail weights and all that jazz... i fish them on top mostly texas rigged... best are the big ones.. big bait big fish.. black, white, alewife.. they all catch fish.. got many 20+ on them this year

The best thing is that unlike eels, if you leave them in your truck for a fews days, they don't develop that lovely "bouquet" of dead seafood.

They are my "go-to" lure, since the various sizes can imitate a variety of baits.
Spring is 4", 6" and 7 1/2 " (9" in the canal)
Summer is 6", 7 1/2" and 9"
Fall is almost exclusively 9" (maybe 7 1/2" when the bait is smaller)

Beyond that, you'd have to exoeriment with what colors work best for you. The basic theory is black/dark colors on dark nights, white/bright colors on moonlit nights.

You just have to get out there and cast away.

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=31474

fast forward a few months

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=32786

thnx

my favorite plastic bait frest and salt water... and they can be fished so many ways.. jighead, texas rigged, or those intense double hookrigs with tail weights and all that jazz... i fish them on top mostly texas rigged... best are the big ones.. big bait big fish.. black, white, alewife.. they all catch fish.. got many 20+ on them this year

i dont know how to rig any of that i just perfer havin them w/ nothing, but maybe the ocasional nail at the end for freshwater and thats how i have mine riged now....

The best thing is that unlike eels, if you leave them in your truck for a fews days, they don't develop that lovely "bouquet" of dead seafood.

They are my "go-to" lure, since the various sizes can imitate a variety of baits.
Spring is 4", 6" and 7 1/2 " (9" in the canal)
Summer is 6", 7 1/2" and 9"
Fall is almost exclusively 9" (maybe 7 1/2" when the bait is smaller)

Beyond that, you'd have to exoeriment with what colors work best for you. The basic theory is black/dark colors on dark nights, white/bright colors on moonlit nights.

You just have to get out there and cast away.

i got the 9 inches and my most used place is the canal sooo i'm happy

i got the black/blue with the grey bottom i wanna also get some white.......

umm also when u say """"The basic theory is black/dark colors on dark nights, white/bright colors on moonlit nights."""" are theese basicly ment for the night:huh: :huh: :huh:

yeah, he's talkin night there
stick with lighter colors for day time too, the rainbow trout is nice....

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waitttttttt striper will still eat theese durin the day if there dark right

or do i need the white?

ya i'm confused...........

Once you start using sluggos, you might as well toss your tackle box into the canal, you won't need it anymore. Seriously, I started using sluggos last year (9" and 6") and have a hard time switching to other lures...they have been that effective for me. The larger (9") sluggos may not catch as many stripers but that quality of the fish increases. They are a great lure to fish inshore structure spots. The way I rig it is to simply thread a jig head through the head and out the back. Adding a little super glue to the jighead and sluggo can help keep it from slipping, but not necessary.

I've used sluggos and live eels at the same time and the sluggos consistently outfish the eels.

PS No I don't work for LunkerCity!!

welcome to s-b :)

yea hopefully this season will help ALOT! because last year not one keeper for me alll schoolies

I know I'll probably start a war but I think the whole Sluggo thing is way overrated. I know for a fact that I can outfish a Sluggo guy with live eels. Now when there is big water and it's running hard maybe a weighted Sluggo will outproduce a live eel simply because it will get down further in the water column.
Steve McKenna has turned Sluggo fishing into an art and he may be the exception but if you take a regular surf rat with Sluggos and another regular with live eels I don't believe the Sluggo guy is gonna win. Just my opinion

I know I'll probably start a war but I think the whole Sluggo thing is way overrated. I know for a fact that I can outfish a Sluggo guy with live eels. Now when there is big water and it's running hard maybe a weighted Sluggo will outproduce a live eel simply because it will get down further in the water column.
Steve McKenna has turned Sluggo fishing into an art and he may be the exception but if you take a regular surf rat with Sluggos and another regular with live eels I don't believe the Sluggo guy is gonna win. Just my opinion

you may have a point when it comes to the surf, but for structure i have seen enough evidence to never buy eels again. most of the guys i know who fish the canal have many many sluggos in their bags and a few of them fish those sluggos to perfection. we saw some nice fish come through in the early part of october and pretty much all were taken on sluggos.

I agree with you piemma, I believe the whole rigged slug-o is a fad. It will fade away. I have never witnessed a slug-o outfishing an eel. The only time I could see a slug-o outfishing an eel is when bigfish arent really around. Spring time is a great example of this, if you are fishing an eel in april and the guy next to you is fishing a 7" slug-o the slug-o will obviously outfish the eel. But I don't consider 8 small fish to 1 bigfish outfishing. To each his own

I agree that in the hands of an average fisherman, the live eel is a better choice. The live eel does much of the presentation for the angler, whereas with the Slug-Go, the presentation falls on the fisherman.

To say that the rise of soft plastics is a fad however, I respectfully disagree with that assessment. Slug-Go's and other soft plastics are well past the fad stage and have taken their place among other top-tier artificials - they are here to stay.

I like to eel fish, but within five years I think we'll need to poach eels or obtain them illegally if we want to continue that style of fishing.

i got the 9 inches sooo i'm happy

:huh: :huh: :huh:

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hahahahah

i thought the same thing

:rollem:

What where some of the bigger fish caught 2006 on slugo's?

my friends and i got many in the high 20's low 30's on sluggos.. i love throwing then into a blitz and working them across the top like a frantic baitfish.. they usually dont move more then 20 feet before theyre inhaled

I rig my sluggos with a single hook in which the point of the hook is just flush to the body of the sluggo. This makes it weedless and I can let it go where no eel has gone before, crawling along the bottom, through boulder fields, etc. Very effective and with zero snags to boot!!

popin plug, to attempt to answer your question about sluggos at night, yes the big trend that has been made famous by Steve McKenna is using the 9 inch black sluggo at night as an eel immitation. You can also use them during the day and most anglers will tell you that lighter colors are better for daytime fishing.

As far as sluggos vs eels. I gotta tell you that I spent the majority of this season trying to figure out the correct retrieve for the 9 inch sluggo rigged McKenna style. I got skunked with them a lot. I would go out with big confidence in them and after an hour of nothing, I would break out a red fin or popper if it was light out and manage a few fish. So I started throwing them during the day so I could see the thing in the water and learn the proper retrieve. Once I got the feel for it, I started catching more fish at night. They do work, but it takes practice. In contrast, the first time I fished live eels, I caught fish.

Sluggo's work- I credit sluggos for my inspiration of the original style surfhog eel.. Is the 2 hook rigging system a fad? maybe, but the sluggo, no matter which way you fish it is here to stay- one hook, 2 hooks, it all works-
same with my eels, once guys get the hang of the countdown times and retrieve rates, they are equally devastating to the bass- Its all in the hands of the angler-

you cant beat a live eel though i wont argue that, but for me personally, i cant justify killing eels when i am mostly catch and releasing bass...kind of hypocritical IMO...