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Tips on the spook were great...i always get stuck in the rut of working one in almost a Cadence the whole way in.

I don't find myself on the water during full daylight very often so my topwater fishing is somewhat limited. On the occasions when I'm out during daylight I'll use a Super Strike Needle (bright pattern IE: Parrot). The key is a quick retrieve and skipping it accross the surface in short bursts creating a commotion. Skipping Super Strike Needles - a little known technique - try it - even more deadly on calm nights.

DZ

Definitley Gibbs pencil, and afterhours spook.

Creek Chub 1900 series chrome or white pearl with modifications.
Bernzy Howdy in yellow/white
Gibbs 2 oz Yellow or white pencil
My own slant faced poppers, 2.5 oz pearl white.

I prefer a slant faced popper over anything.

Mine has to be a 2 oz white Hab's pencil followed be a 1 oz white Gibb's pencil.

Bernzy Howdy -pogie
Jigman Spook- white
Big Don's Popper- parrot

jess


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Cotton Cordell pencil, smaller size, black/silver, weight and rattle customized with steel shot, single red treble off the back, black feather tail, black feather "fins" replacing front hook. Very very nice.

1.5 oz gibbs pencils.
Medium BM dannies.
Tattoo Sea Pup
Tattoo Juniors

DOC

thanks jimmySly!

those loooook SICK!!

can't wait to launch one of THOSE nasty spooks!!!
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what is a Doc?

It's a Musky Mania plug that's 9" at 3 1/2 oz - looks like a vibrator with trebles, basically -

Bone color (no joke intended - no, really) seems to be the color of choice for the most part -

Jay - I don't know about the rest of the family, but after seeing Corey Saturday he still looks pretty well fed...:hihi:

No plug works well if there aren't fish around to begin with - haven't seen one yet that will toll fish from miles away, regardless of what guys will tell you -

Finding fish is what counts - and Corey does it like few others I've seen...:uhuh:

No Truer Words Spoken

Pencils just edge out the spook top water baits:fishin::fishin:

do you guys use your spooks at night or are they mostly a daytime lure?

Darters-Tattoo 3oz
Needles-Afterhours 8"

Pretty hard to convince yourself to throw them in the dark, but I had a full moon night when I did very well on small to low medium fish (eating krill) using a surf howdy. You can also retrieve pencils slow and straight and they work like a floating needle.

good to know thanks. I didn't think so but seems like a lot of guys are catching fish on spooks during the day then anyother plug other then pencils.

Wow, thanks for the info. Never heard of 'em. Do you replace the trebles right away and is it hard to work a 9" 3.5 oz spook or do they slide around easily? I see that they make a smaller size as well.

Things go in fads and spooks are "in" right now (for good reason). Old school guys liked very big poppers (Capt Bill, Cuttyhunk, Point Jude, Russo, Gibbs....all made poppers nearly as big as their largest swimmers). Poppers get a bad rap as a googan's plug, but there is much more to them than for which they get credit. I've been badly outfished on decent bass (up to 36 lbs) by Flap while he was working his big popper and I was throwing pencils, spooks, conrads, atom jrs, and dannys with much less success. I know of several 50 lb fish that have crushed poppers tossed by inexperienced fishermen in the middle of the day. Luck, yes.........but there has to be something going on with the plug for a fish that size to come off the bottom and take it in broad daylight.

Ray...:uhuh: