Need help with fresh water plugs

[iamskippy]

I have fished for this species alot including with down riggers, slip the best suggestion i can give is look and modeling repala's, they are made out of bulsa wood and are very effective, i would also suggest lexan lips.
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[nightfighter]

PM Muskyslayer.... he's a fresh water guy and would have the right input from a luremaker's point of view.

[Raven]

I second Skips view on using the rapala shaped body

a pink body at 20' depths would look silver to them
and have a much higher profile

you can troll them with great success UNTIL
the great winds blow all the leaves into the water

then the plugs get "leaf fowled" sliding down the line
when trolled....so you have to wait til they sink

then resume

[Rockfish9]

a 3" pikie works well on Brown trout and salmon... I just dont think I've come accross a rainbow( trout) yet big enough to eat one yet... Rainbow flash and goldfish( as close as I could get to CCB's original color) have worked the best on 'em..I've got the specs at the house if you like.. make them slim, not like we make striper pikies..

[fishsmith]

In our neck of the woods, I troll stocked ponds in my canoe using a 3" rapala with a rainbow pattern. that's little to whittle, but they are effective.

[Muskyslayer96]

Slipknot,

I agree with the previous posts...rapala sized plugs are very effective as are spoons and J-plugs fished deep. I agree with the lexan lips as well, very durable.



MS