Deep Diving Plugs

[rwilhelm]

What type of plugs are your favorite to fish an outgoing tide at the breachways to get your plug down in the deep current? I usually use Dannies or the bigger Bombers but I am thinking there must be better choices to get down deeper. Darters, Danny Deep Divers, Pikies, Bottles, etc. what do you guys like?

[goosefish]

In their own way, each breachway is different. If the tide is honkin' out and a metal lip is out of control I go with a darter or a bottle, or my all-time favorite the jig-n'-pig.

[rwilhelm]

Ahh the good old bucktail huh? I have jigged the channel of breachways but never tried it on the outgoing at the point. Does it drift okay or do you just cast and retrieve it?

[Plug]

rebel windcheater

lure jensen javelin

[fishweewee]

Beachmaster Cowboy, black.

It's a metal-lipped plug resembling a Danny, but it has an angled head like a Darter.

Also, the Atom-40 type metal-lipped swimmers (with the rounded noses) swim nice too.

[Slipknot]

Originally posted by Plug
rebel windcheater

lure jensen javelin

[Plug]

Another good deep running plug that doesn't get much play in the north is the mirrolure.

I like the 72M or the 77M.

They don't have a lip to make them dive but are weighted to sink.

The 77M will run to about 12'.

The 72M runs about 6-8' but you can get them deeper by throwing them uptide and letting them sink on a slack line like a jig. Then tighten up on them at about 45 deg. downtide to swing them across the current flow.

I like the 72 a little better since I believe the extra weight of the 77 deadens the subtle but deadly action of the lure.

The windcheaters and the mirros are the #1 and #2 deep running plugs down here for fishing the end of the Indian River Inlet. A place that defines a deep, fast, breachway. Cheaters usually get the nod if the fish are on larger bait, mirros if they are on spearing, peanuts or the like.

Oh yeah if you want to fish 72's you better scarf 'em up. They are discontinued.

[Crow]

White Conrad--
Danny Slopehead troller

[rwilhelm]

I have not tried them but Mann's Stretch might be a good bet. The website says they dive up to 25 feet. Anyone try these?

[RIROCKHOUND]

Yeah... the breachways aren't that deep....
Manns = lost plug ?

[Goose]

Isn't there alot of small blues around the breachways to be useing a stretch?

[Plug]

I've used the mann's. They are okay if the tide is not running too hard but are a PITA if the tide is running.

If the tide is slow you can float them up by slowing your retreive to a crawl when they get near the rocks.

But if the tide is running it will keep them down and they tend to hang before you can get them in.

Even when they are usable IMO they aren't very good catchers. Deeper than 15' it's jig time. Or an eely rigged on a ball jig.

[rwilhelm]

Thanks Plug I don't think I will be buying any Mann's to try.

[theSURF121]

Originally posted by Crow
White Conrad--
Danny Slopehead troller

Conrads.... You must be fishing Breezy Point.