What is the best fake rubber minnow to use?>?

[worm_warrior]

Was just wondering if anyone had luck with fake minnows and what are the best type and color to use?

[jglassguy]

Go get ya some sluggo minnows and a hook
or get a Mr. Twister 2 inch chartruese and a 1/8th ounce jig head, both have minnow imitators in stock...

[Rich]

I'm a big fan of Zoom Super Flukes-rig them on a 4/0 EWG hook.

[Alex]

[quote author=Rebbasser link=board=news;num=1117328627;start=0#2 date=05/28/05 at 21:58:31]I'm a big fan of Zoom Super Flukes-rig them on a 4/0 EWG hook.[/quote]
i agree

[mblk181]

Flukes, Sluggos, Sassy Shads.......colorred with some chartreuse for muddy waters, white pearl, ice, for lightly stained to clear waters, red shad works well in certain waters.

[bearpaw]

Try a Storm wild eye swim bait. They are weighted but can be deadly. Shad color

[Big_Hawg_in_Va]

Totally agree on the ZOOM Flukes, baby bass color seems to murder 'em. Slug-go's are a classic too, pretty much the same action.

There's another little plastic fat shad looking thing I've found at Wal-Mart, called the BassAssassin. It's only about 2 inches long, maybe, so I was kinda wondering whether any bigger ones would get to it. but it gets everything from warmouth (I don't know the real name, they look like bluegill, about the same size, but they have big enough mouths to get hooked by a 1/0 on a 4" Zoom fluke), to bigger bass (3, 4 pounds is big in the campus lake I fish here in SIU). Even caught a channel cat on it, that was weird, at first I thought I had the biggest bass in my life.

Sorry, I digress. Hope this helped a bit.

Bassnman, I've wondered about those shad-typed things that are soft but weighted in the head. How do you think they work in shallower, weedier lakes and ponds? I've got some lures somewhere like it, just wonderin.

[Big_Hawg_in_Va]

Wow, just found these "weighted lures" I was talkin about a second ago, wouldn't you know they're Storm WildEye Jerkin' Minnow, just like you were sayin bassnman. They look sweet, thing is I fish in a pretty weedy lake, and they've got exposed, jighead typed hooks. I'm used to rigging the hook into the plastic, so it's not exposed. I'd have to fish it pretty fast to keep it up out of the weeds. Think this'll work?

Sorry web0433, didn't mean to take over the thread, you just hit on something I've been wondering about.

[Bassin_Dude]

i like the flukes, but IMO the best fake minnow would be the storm wildeye swimbaits. just get one that matches the main bait fish in your body of water, and get it. i saw one the other day that was a bluegill shape and pattern, looked really tempting to buy, but i held back. maybe some other time.

[lil_bill_dance]

Mann's Shadow, Hands Down !!!