9 inch Slug-go

[Clogston29]

the fish may have just been up near the surface (where the sluggo is) and not the bottom (where the eel is)

the other night I was fishing point with eels with no luck. I kept wading out further and further with the tide with no results. then I saw a bass tailing about 5 yards from me. I cast the eel past him and brought it in on top - he took it. Got about 5 more bass, up to about 20 lbs, fishing the eel on top. Threw in a few traditional eel presentations with no luck during the time I was getting em on top. just goes to show that you never know.

By the way, I'm a big fan of sluggos and probably would have put one on out there to see what happened but I was out to deep to get at my belt bag.

[Rockport24]

that sounds like a dead-on theory to me. water column placement is sometimes the most important thing. I've experienced that same issue with schoolies, my usually deadly jig and cocochoe rig got no hits, but a popper slayed em.

[cow tamer]

Unfortunately, the sluggo is also a bluefish magnet. This season I have had more sluggos chomped than fish caught. My guess is the same could be true were I fishing eels.

[steve]

No slight intended, but I think alot of you guys are missing or even belaboring the point which is basically that I've had really unbelievable success with the 9 inch rigged and weighted black sluggo over the last 4 season and just wanted to pass it along to those who are still unkowing about it's bass catching abilities. Night in and night out no one will convince me that another artificial will out fish this lure. Amen!

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by steve

No slight intended, but I think alot of you guys are missing or even belaboring the point which is basically that I've had really unbelievable success with the 9 inch rigged and weighted black sluggo over the last 4 season and just wanted to pass it along to those who are still unkowing about it's bass catching abilities. Night in and night out no one will convince me that another artificial will out fish this lure. Amen!

Atlantic mossbunker is all you need....

[Rockport24]

yeah but us poor shmoes fishing from land need to fish sluggos

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

yeah but us poor shmoes fishing from land need to fish sluggos

Sounds like U need a boat ride...

[JoeP]

Sluggos/Fin-S-Fish & similar soft plastics are - in my opinion - the best artificial lure you can use in the vast majority of conditions (other than in certain isolated circumstances when they can't be fished for some reason - usually castability). I use them rigged weedless weighted with inserts for the surf or weighted with heavier worm weights in current and they produce consistently (when there are fish around of course, unlike now...)

I've been fishing them in the surf since the early 1990's when I first tried them out on the flats of the north side of the Cape. We were sightfishing to large schools of pretty skittish bass in broad daylight and you could see the bass swim away from most plugs, swim up to & then turn away from plugs, etc. - BUT slam the sluggos either unweighted or weighted on jigheads. It was night & day & I've been using them as my main surf lures ever since.

[RedHerring]

OK, I will keep trying them, but the last two times out other rubba has outfished the sluggo's 5 to 1. And it is not because I am googan with a sluggo; normally my rum crew is ready to make me walk the plank because I catch twice as many fish as they do when we are all using sluggo's (as we did two years ago).


Quick question: If I run out of eel skins, can I use a rubber condom instead?

[Rockport24]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Sounds like U need a boat ride...

Is this an offer, because I'll take one!