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Old 02-20-09, 07:50 PM   #1
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Default Sweet Beavers, anyone use them other then heavy cover?

seems like every time someone mentions a bait like the beavers they are talking about using them in heavy cover....anyone fish them in situations other then heavy cover?
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Old 02-20-09, 08:13 PM   #2
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Use them around reeds mostly, it's the only place I've ever used them, but I've only used them a few times.... so.... well ya, have not goton the chance to use them in heaver cover.

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i bought some like them for jig trailers the other day
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Old 02-20-09, 09:07 PM   #4
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nothing says you can't t-rig or c-rig 'em. maybe something different than your competition is showing
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Old 02-20-09, 09:31 PM   #5
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yeah i have heard they give a different look than other things so i have heard people t-rig and c-rig them in any occasion to give a different look.... also the smallies as a jig trailer
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I am going to try them tomorrow in a dead lake down the road from the house, and I will get back with you on it. Conditions are going to tough tomorrow though.
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Old 02-21-09, 09:42 AM   #7
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I had some success with a c-rig while ledge fishing. Flipping in heavy cover and I have used them as a jig trailer. The downside is that my wife got a little pissed last year when my 5 year old made the statement "I like me some sweet beaver." I was too busy laughing to defend myself.
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Old 02-21-09, 11:19 AM   #8
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I am going to try them tomorrow in a dead lake down the road from the house, and I will get back with you on it. Conditions are going to tough tomorrow though.

i'd rather have tough conditions...then no conditions....we have snow again today in chicago.....ice on most lakes



any of you guys use them around docks in place of where you'd normally be tossin a tube?
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Old 02-21-09, 11:55 AM   #9
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While I don't use Sweet Beavers, I do use Ugly Otters which is in the same family of soft plastic lure. Their compact design is really made for pitching into all sorts of tight cover. I use them pitched into weed holes, in and around laydowns, into brush, and skipped under overhangs. I prefer to work a creature bait with more flowing appendages along weed edges or on flats.
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Old 02-21-09, 12:01 PM   #10
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would ya'll show me a sweet beaver bait? and i am serious, the BAIT...NOT sweet beaver,lol. have a sweet beaver lady.
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Old 02-21-09, 12:15 PM   #11
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Here you go

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Old 02-21-09, 12:18 PM   #12
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ok, sweet joel. thanks pal. making a list for next weekend at bps. colors? ya'll favs that is.
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Old 02-21-09, 12:23 PM   #13
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Like all soft plastics I only use 3 colors, white pearl, green pumpkin or watermelon with black flake, and June Bug.
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Tried it, but got skunked, I think the water was too dirt for my colors though. All I have right now is the watermelon, green pumpkin, and the dirty sanchez. Got 2 bumps on the black saphire brush hog though.
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Old 02-21-09, 01:39 PM   #15
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You can see from what I use wt'd and unweighted creature type plastics, I'm not a big jig man other then a finesse 1/8-1/4 oz jig during ice out. For me, I'm much more comfortable with plastics then a jig & pig, and the bite is much easier for me to detect.
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Old 02-21-09, 03:47 PM   #16
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I use mini beavers alot in the spring . They work great , try dropshotting with them for early season bass . Color wise I like watermelon pepper , white , oxblood & crayfish . I've seen them rigged on a jig with the hook point coming out thru the side of the bait so it resembles a small panfish .
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Old 02-21-09, 04:19 PM   #17
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BPS doesn't sell them......everyone sells a knock off type thou
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Old 02-21-09, 05:57 PM   #18
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seen em today online at bps.
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Old 02-21-09, 07:47 PM   #19
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I like these colors

Dirty Sanchez:



Green pumpkin red:




Those are the only ones I've tried. But I'd like to try these colors:

Coonasty



Green Gobi (top of my list of colors to try)



X-mas pumpkin:

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I always thought the guys at Reaction Innovations were pervs with the way they name their colors LOL
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Old 02-21-09, 07:57 PM   #21
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I've had alot of success with the sweet beaver rigged on a shakey head. A friend of mine fished hers texas rigged and slowly dragged it across a rock bottom. She didn't win the tournament, but she did bring fish to the scale.
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Old 02-21-09, 10:11 PM   #22
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seen em today online at bps.

can't find 'em...have a link?
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Old 02-21-09, 10:27 PM   #23
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i just looked at the worms and soft plastics link on their site. i can't put sites on here, ain't that smart on the puter thingy,lmao.
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Old 02-21-09, 11:57 PM   #24
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I don't know if you would catagorize a pad field as heavy cover but I've had good luck on them before the pads come up. Watermelon color seems to work good for me. I t-rig them with a light weight and hop them through the pads.
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http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st...=TOP_SEARCH_GO

BPS has a lot of beaver knock offs, but not the reaction innovation model
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