08-14-2003, 03:30 PM
[cool]Ain't a whole lot of macks in Arizona, and I had not developed my current arsenal prior to my moving out of Utah. But, my gut instincts, and past experience with the species leads me to think that the right sizes and colors could be deadly.
I don't think you could count on getting much more than pups on the sizes I regularly use, but in the larger sizes, sweetened with some sucker, cisco, chub or perch meat, Roadrunners should work gangbusters. Macks are predatory and opportunistic. I have seen some come out of Lake Tahoe with whole suckers and even rainbow trout that were pretty large in relation to the size of the macks. And, in the olden days at the Gorge, when there were lots of chubs, some of the larger macks had guts distended from dining on those forage fish. I guess now they are targeting kokanees.
The largest Roadrunner head I can cast with either of my molds is 3/8 oz. But Janns Netcraft has one in their catalog that can cast 3/4 oz., 1 oz and 1.5 oz. heads. I'm thinking that for effective mackin' you would need something in those sizes...unless you found some shallower at Fish Lake or maybe on a good day at Bear Lake.
The other thing I can do, if someone wants to try them, is to rig a tube jig hook with a spinner blade...like a "TubeRunner". Whaddayathink? I have some molds for the elongated tube jig heads that I can rig with a wire.
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I don't think you could count on getting much more than pups on the sizes I regularly use, but in the larger sizes, sweetened with some sucker, cisco, chub or perch meat, Roadrunners should work gangbusters. Macks are predatory and opportunistic. I have seen some come out of Lake Tahoe with whole suckers and even rainbow trout that were pretty large in relation to the size of the macks. And, in the olden days at the Gorge, when there were lots of chubs, some of the larger macks had guts distended from dining on those forage fish. I guess now they are targeting kokanees.
The largest Roadrunner head I can cast with either of my molds is 3/8 oz. But Janns Netcraft has one in their catalog that can cast 3/4 oz., 1 oz and 1.5 oz. heads. I'm thinking that for effective mackin' you would need something in those sizes...unless you found some shallower at Fish Lake or maybe on a good day at Bear Lake.
The other thing I can do, if someone wants to try them, is to rig a tube jig hook with a spinner blade...like a "TubeRunner". Whaddayathink? I have some molds for the elongated tube jig heads that I can rig with a wire.
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