08-15-2003, 06:58 PM
[cool]Hey, TL, the same thinking ran through my carload of crooked cogwheels. Much of the vertical fishing I do is working over those neutral or negative mode fish that won't move to chase a lure...or that get spooked by too big a lure with too much action. I fish little, low and slow.
With that in mind, I also have been playing around with incorporating mini tubes as trailers and/or bait substitutes on my baitbugs and roadrunners. Man, I have been using minitubes since they first came out in the late 70's, and if there is one confidence bait I use,(besides Roadrunners) minitubes would have to be up there. So, I thought "Why not combine the two?"
I have quanitities of just about every color mini tube ever made...and I custom color a lot of plain white,pearl, clear sparkle and smoke sparkle too. In fact, if anyone is interested, I can do a color pictorial on custom coloring plastics...using lure dyes, colored markers and even mixing colored plastics to produce different colors.
Here is a pic (attachment) of some of my favorite baitbug colors, with some of the colors and sizes of mini tubes I will be using. I have already played around with these (successfully) in the past, but I have some new ideas and I;m going to give them a serious "field testing".
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With that in mind, I also have been playing around with incorporating mini tubes as trailers and/or bait substitutes on my baitbugs and roadrunners. Man, I have been using minitubes since they first came out in the late 70's, and if there is one confidence bait I use,(besides Roadrunners) minitubes would have to be up there. So, I thought "Why not combine the two?"
I have quanitities of just about every color mini tube ever made...and I custom color a lot of plain white,pearl, clear sparkle and smoke sparkle too. In fact, if anyone is interested, I can do a color pictorial on custom coloring plastics...using lure dyes, colored markers and even mixing colored plastics to produce different colors.
Here is a pic (attachment) of some of my favorite baitbug colors, with some of the colors and sizes of mini tubes I will be using. I have already played around with these (successfully) in the past, but I have some new ideas and I;m going to give them a serious "field testing".
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