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I'm skepticle, but last night I order a couple of the Williamson Live Ribbon Fish soft plastic trolling lures. I was wondering if anyone has tried them before, the soft plastic trolling lures that is. I couldn't help it, I had to try the ribbonfish one. It looks awesome. If it swims as natural as it looks like it will, i'm betting it'll be a pretty killer lure. They say it can be trolled at speeds up to 8 knotts, I don't buy that at all. But I bet slow trolled it would drive toothy cridders crazy.
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Ummm.... the hooks will be joined by wire, eh?[cool]
Wonder how many Macks a lure will be good for?
Has anybody tried our West Coast style swimbaits? They can be trolled, but slowly.
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Yea, I already scoped out the wire rigging. I don't expect them to last too long anyways being a soft plastic. But I have plenty of single strand and hooks to re-rigg them after a hit. I'm just curious how well they work. It might be an edge during a tournament when the live bait is scarce. Or, they may work better than live bait all together. I'll post my findings soon, the water temp is almost there, not quite warm enough.
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Some of the guys out here use Superglue to repair swimbaits.
Our swimbaits run $1 to $2 or so each. If tearing up a $2 bill will get me bit, I'll go for it![cool]
Personally, I don't use swimbaits a lot, but a lot of guys out here are absolute assassins with them on any species that eat other fish.
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I just got those lures in the mail the other day and did surgury on one of them. It's not single strand on the inside, it's a heavy braided steel cable. So it will last a good many strikes, now for the soft outer flesh, i'm not so sure. I'm going to keep apoxy on board just incase. Super glue might melt that soft plastic. I'll try different adesives on one after it's chewed beyond repair and see which one works better. They are pretty sweet though. I've been waiting on the water temp to get right for the last few weeks. Just when I think it's going to stay warm for long enough to warm the water up, a cold from comes through. Just my luck, all these new toys, and things just won't come together for me. I know i'm not the only one waiting on the weather to finally make it's mind up and stay warm. [cool]
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I repaired some shallow minnows (hard plastic, Bomber brand) the other day, with 2 part epoxy and auto touch-up paint. Looks like it will work, but I'm laid up after a little surgery, so it'll be a few days before I can try them out.
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I've repaired hard plastic lures before in the past with apoxy and it works fine. YOu shouldn't have any problems. I had some Yo-Zuri Magnums that I patched up and they worked fine.
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For the lighter plastics, I like to use a super glue that is called "Future Glue" they used to sell it at the local Home Depot. For the heavy duty plastics, including the LA Sliders, I like to use the "Amazing Goop" glue. It takes a little while to set up but it is tough once it is set.[cool]
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My concern with patching up the soft plastic lures is that it will affect the natural swimming motion of the lure, but only time will tell that. Check out those lures steve, they are pretty wicked. I just got mine in the mail, I got the ribbon fish ones. They look really cool, and I saw them in action during a TV add while I was watching Saltwater Sunday on ESPN. They swim erratically, i've got high hopes for them. The thing is, I know if I put any kind of hard glue on them, it will stiffen them up, hints they probably won't swim as good. I guess it's going to depend on how bad they get chewed up and how much area I have to repair.
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They sure do look good. Too good that is. In CA, I would have to remove one of the hooks to be able to stay legal. We are only allowed a max of 2 hooks here.[unsure]
I don't think that goop would be a problem with those lures though. It does dry pliable. You could compensate the glue mass with a little tuning on the front Bill.[cool]
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Only two hooks? That's kinda the craps. You might as well throw away the 18 bucks for the lure in that case. Fishing a ribbon fish with only two hooks = like a 20% hook up rate. The bait is too long. We can use 20 hooks if we want to. [cool] How come such strick laws on the terminal tackle?
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2 hooks is the least of our problems over here.
They used to allow us to fish down to 200 fathoms. Now, 10,30 and 60 fathoms depending on the time of year.
We used to be able to use 10 hooks. Now, maximum 2. Except when bait fishing. Then you can use the 5 or 6 hook sabiki rig.
We used to be able to keep certain "HUGE" species of Black Sea Bass. No More. Cowcod, no more. Canary Rock fish, NNNNNNNotttttttttttt. Yelloweye Rockfish, nnnnnnnoooooooooo amigo. Great White Sharks, not even. C&R is ok on GWs.
Our fish and game dept has set so many rules. They are almost to the point of shutting down all the inshore fishing as well. We already have enough conservation areas where no one is allowed to fish.
Don't worry though. If you make it our this way, I will show you some good spots to fish where you won't get into trouble.[cool]
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