Lures
Warning: Latex sensitive people should not handle the latex lures.
If you have a sample lure available, you are probably looking at your samples in your hand and saying "What’s this? Is this some sort of joke or something? This can’t possibly work, it’s nothing." It really doesn’t look like much, but I can assure you, it does work. Fish don’t see a flat sheet of material. They see an illusional full bodied form due to the exceptional action. They see something that looks similar to the things they like to eat because of the life like undulating action. You will be surprised at how many fish they will actually catch. Before you dismiss this sample as nonsense, simply place one of your latex samples on a lead head jig, using the head hole for the hook eyelet and the body hole for the hook shank, like in diagram A below. A round lead head 1/16 or 1/32 oz. jig with hook sizes 4 or 6 works best. Tie it on some 4 to 6 lb. test line. Put it in a bucket of water and jig it up and down and it will swim around. This gives you a pretty good idea what the fish are going to see as they look up. Now, if you don’t see why you are going to catch fish with this lure by now, then you should read no further and probably give the samples to someone who knows how to fish.
Silhouette™ and Silly Wet™ Lures
can be used in a variety of ways:
1. They can be used on a lead
head jig. See Diagram A below.
2. They can be used as a trailer for another
lure, such as a spoon or a spinner bait, by just using the head hole
only on the last hook of the lure. They are so light they just
follow whatever action the lure is producing as they swim behind the
lure. See Diagram B below.
3. When used with live bait you have unbeatable bait. Just
slip the Silly Wet™ Minnow or Silhouette™
Tadpole on the hook first, then hook your lively minnow through
the back and your live minnow will swim the minnow or tadpole around
with it like an attached parasite. See Applications.
What fish can resist two meals for one bite?
4. Place a Silly Wet™ Minnow on a lead head jig using
both holes and then add a Silhouette™ Tadpole on the
hook through the head hole only like a trailer. See Diagram C
below.
5. Special Treatment for the Mylure™ Type of the Silly Wet™ Minnow. If you are using the Mylure™ type of the Silly Wet™ Minnow as in Diagram A below then place the barb through the body hole first, then the eyelet through the head hole, because the Mylure™ won’t stretch like the latex. If the Mylure™ type is to be used with a live minnow, place the hook barb through either hole of the Mylure™, then add a sequin over the barb and force it over the barb to retain the Mylure™ (use the large eyelet of another hook to force the sequin over the barb to avoid injury), and then bait with a live minnow. If you use the Mylure™ type as shown in diagram B below, again place a sequin over the hook to retain the Mylure™ on the hook. The latex type does not need a sequin retainer unless you want to use it for attraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What kind of fish can be caught with Silhouette™ Tadpoles and Silly Wet™ Minnows?
- What is the difference between a Silhouette™ Tadpole and a Silhouette™ Tadpole C?
- What advantages might the Silly Wet™ Minnow have over the Tadpoles
What kind of fish can be caught with Silhouette™ Tadpoles and Silly Wet™ Minnows?
Any fish that eats minnows, worms, and leeches will attack these lures. That includes many kinds of fish such as Crappie, Bluegill, Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, White Bass, Wipers, Perch, and Northern Pike. Remember these lures can be used as trailers just like pork but with better action.
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What is the difference between a Silhouette™ Tadpole and a Silhouette™ Tadpole C?
Tadpole C swims in a circle when jigged up and down due to the Curved tail. Tadpole has more of a darting erratic action when jigged up and down.
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What advantages might the Silly Wet™ Minnow have over the Tadpoles?
It can be used when you want more of a profile of a bait fish and a little less action compared to the Tadpoles.
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