The minnow version dives deeper with maximum flash and tail action. What is most impressive about the Berkley Flicher Minnow is its deep design curve. This body design allows for the minnow to dive faster, getting you the fish faster. Whether you are on the Great Lakes or a small waterway the Flicker Minnow will perform with the same aptitude — a fantastic feature. If you need a deep-running crankbait to hit suspended fish in deep water, the Flicker Minnow should be your bait of choice. Not only does it dive deeper, faster it stays in the strikezone longer because you do not need as fast of retrieve.
With a slower gear ratio reel, you are able to cover deeper water while slowing the bait down. Deadly combination on large walleye and pike. The Flicker Minnow comes, currently, in two sizes for you to fine tune your setup and hit the proper depth and retrieval speed. These are pre-tied rigs that have a main linefrom which several dropper lines are attached.
At the end of each dropper lineis a small lure with a tiny hook and a body made of feathers or plastic. Shad and herringare sensitive and die easily. To keep them healthy, place them in cool, highlyoxygenated water.
Use a large, round, well-insulated, aerated tank with coolstream or lake water, or rig a perforated garbage can to carry them alongsideyour boat. A gallon of water supports about four large baitfish. Catfish anglershave long used cut and live shad for bait. Shad are oily and impart a strongcatfish-attracting scent to the water. Cut or live shad are the top bait forblue catfish because shad comprise over 90 percent of their diet in some waters.
But channel catfish relish these baitfish, too, and flatheads readily respondto live shad baits. Shad often areused to catch catfish in dam tailwaters. Big cats stack up like cordwood belowdams, feeding on dead shad coming through the turbines. Bait the rigwith a live shad hooked through the lips or behind the dorsal fin, or with afilet or chunk cut from a single shad.
Cast in front of the gates and let thebait do its job. No other fish aremore closely linked to shad populations than striped bass and hybrid stripedbass.
Shad account for most of their food in many waters, and abundant shad area requisite for good striper and hybrid fisheries. Because stripers and hybridsare among the few fish growing large enough to eat big gizzard shad, they areoften stocked in impoundments to take advantage of this overabundant resource. Shad are lethallineside baits. Artificials worked to simulate this forage account for mostangling effort and fish.
But live or cut shad often produce fish when otherlive baits and artificials are practically useless. From Februarythrough May, the spawning urge pushes stripers and hybrids upstream. Thesemigrations are halted by dams, and during this season, tightlining shad belowdams is a productive way to fish. In summer andwinter, stripers and hybrids move to deep water following shad.
During thesetimes, use a fish-finder to probe deep-water habitat for big fish holdingbeneath shad schools. Autumn findsstripers and hybrids schooling and chasing shad on the surface. Small, young shadare the principal prey of the white bass, comprising its entire diet in somewaters.
Spring white bassseek tributaries for spawning runs. During these runs, they can be taken onsmall shad fished below a bobber or on the bottom. In winter and summer, lookfor whites and shad holding over or near deep-water structure in the main bodyof lakes and streams. May 18, at pm. Alex says:. September 5, at pm. Please leave a thought provoking reply. We reserve the right to remove comments deemed inappropriate.
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