Spoons?

[Pike-Fisherman]

Which brand spoon(daredevils) do you prefer best? As far as action and success.

So far I like little cleo's spoons

[zooker]

used to be a die hard black and white dd guy.. but when it comes to spoons there is only one name to remember "sutton"

nuff said

zooker

[fishin' fool]

I've been playing around with a variety of spoons and spoon sizes. All I can say is don't buy trolling spoons and think you're going to jig with them it doesn't work. Can anyone recommend jigging spoons that are 3 to 5 inches long, but not 3 ounces either!?!? Thanks

[zooker]

yeah fool i can

japanesse free style




these are known as butterfly or frestyle jigs bps has them-not where you'd think to find them though-
i use this set up on the center rod..set between two average bait casters to show handle lenth..


in the winter bass fishing i use 80 pound braid with a 12" 60 pound floro leader as it slows the fall of the 1/4-1/2 oz baits.. like this


if i am off shore i use same set up only bigger. 900 feet of 120 pound braid rigged uni knot with 10 feet of 110 pound floro and the exact bait as seen on top which is 12oz or 9" long..

oh yeah i am only decent off shore with it..


nuff said

zooker

[Abbeysdad]

I was having very little luck a couple of weeks ago - no interest in much of anything. I tied on a Mepps Little Wolf and got hit after hit. Caught a small smallmouth bass and a perch and then I lost the bait to a log or somethin! (uhg) It's bad enough losing a lure, worse when it's working and it's the only one of it's kind in yer box. Oh well - that's how it goes some days. At least I had 10 minutes of excitement.

[Abbeysdad]

btw zooker, that's a whalin rig yer talkin about - hehe

[zooker]

abbey's dad
that is a barely leagel 20 pound grouper in the bottom picture.. it sounds over gunning but remember i am droppin an 6oz-3 pound jigging spoon 200-800 feet into ship wrecks and continetal cliff faces which are some of the gnarlest stuff found in the sea. rusty old steel ship wrecks will carve thru lite braid like it was butter.. not to mention tring to yank a strong fish like the grouper out of the wreck with out getting hung up...

see the third pic that is 60 pound floro tied to a 1/2 oz jig

nuff said

zooker

[crankybait]

Kastmaster for me

[Captmikestarrett]

Jigs are not spoons and spoons are not jigs....

The best spoon out there is either a Johnson Silver/gold Minnow with pork trailer. OR if you really want to catch some LGMout/reds try this spoon.





Memire has perhaps the best all round casting spoon for shallow water I have ever had the pleasure to use. Works better than a Johnson.

Back in the early seventys we used the Johnson and the Cather spoons in the Currituck Sound over the huge grass beds to catch literally hundreds of LGMouth and Redfish in the flooded backwaters..

Capt Art Cather died many years ago but his handmade spoons where deadly on both fish also.

Capt Mike

[Captmikestarrett]

But so Zook does not take aside. There are jigging spoons. A lot of them out there to choose from.

Red eye's

Krocadile


But it is interesting how the something called a spoon has no convex side. For instance a hammered spoon like a Hopkins iis really not a spoon.
I blame marketing types for the loss in true definations.

Capt Mike

[Captmikestarrett]

But let me extrapulate even more..

There is one jigging jig (ok spoon) that will produce many many fish.

It is called a rattle snakie



So many fish have fallen to this lure..

So as you can see you can fill an entire tackle box with nutin but spoons ahh err jigs.. Whatever..

Capt Mike

[3dkicker]

I saw the XPS tungsten knockoff of the Hopkins the other day and I've got a question. It was a 3/4 oz and was selling for $2.99. The same tungsten bullet weight sells for $5.85. Can somebody 'splain this to me?

Zooker - can you give me the name of the less expensive brand tungsten you found?

(Sorry about the hijacking)

Back to jigging and spooning.

[Captmikestarrett]

dang 3d I had four more posts to do on spoons BTW. But now I will just go away...

Capt Mike

[islandbass]

Originally Posted by fishin' fool

I've been playing around with a variety of spoons and spoon sizes. All I can say is don't buy trolling spoons and think you're going to jig with them it doesn't work. Can anyone recommend jigging spoons that are 3 to 5 inches long, but not 3 ounces either!?!? Thanks

That's why they're called trolling spoons!

I think that blue fox and daredevle and kastmasters have spoons that will suit you. They will be of the traditional spoon shape and non traditional (kastmaster) and not resemble the elliptical shaped "jigging" spoon, but you can work them the same way.

[Bmuskin]

You know I bought a tacklebox full of stuff at a estate sale awhile back. There were som Mepps Timberdoodles and Mepps Cyclops spoons. I put them aside as I truly have never used spoons. ANything decent here?

[3dkicker]

Capt - save them and show them to me next month. What's for dinner by the way?? And are we going sharking this year? I'd really like to catch a couple redfish this time. Never caught one last year.

[Pike-Fisherman]

i love those mepps cyclops spoons....they work great for northerns

[Abbeysdad]

Originally Posted by islandbass

That's why they're called trolling spoons!

Oh, I dunno about that - why can't a spoon can be cast and retrieved just like a crank bait?...after all, it just imitates a minnow.