Lure depths.

[JohnR]

I agree with all of the above too but would highly recommend that mombo - even the 7". You should be able to move the 5" with a spinner too. What rod are you using?? You can also load up the 5" with a some BB's if you want a little extra weight but I wouldn't go nuts. Also, IMO, the Mambo is best worked slowly and twitched on the surface. It has this great wiggle which get's under a bass's scales. Sometimes when the fish were not hitting anything there, I'd toss an olive/silver Mambo and pretty much let it still on the surface and just twitch it a little. Stinkin' Irresistable sometimes...

Patrick's original post:

The beaches I'm fishing aren't all too deep. I tried to fish the darter(just to try it out) and it was hitting bottom. A lot of my lures hit bottom. The casting swimmer hits the bottom if I work it a little to fast, same with the supershad rap, the darter, most of my swimming lures. The only thing is the lures that don't hit bottom, such as my redfins, are incredibly hard to cast.
This is the problem. I'm looking for lures in the 1 oz+ range that will work 4 feet of water or higher. Right now it's gotta be 1 oz or more to work on my rod. As soon as I get the Lami steelhead rods built and the reels, I'll be able to chuck bombers efficently.

Thanks,

Patrick

Mayor Mcfish's reply to your original post:

I like the mambo minnows. THey only go down a couple feet. But if you like a lure that dives to deep, file down the lip. I've done that with several lures because I had the same problem. The rapala magnums work well once the lip has been reduced by 30-40%.