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[PoPin Plug]

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

[piemma]

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

[clambelly]

Originally Posted by piemma

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.

[riverrat2]

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

[Joe]

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.