Deep diving swimmers??

[Peter Lajoie]

Dont waste your money on the night stalkers. Try to get yourself some cowboys like Z said.

[SeaWolf]

lurch, i also would highly recommend tattoo's diving swimmer. i fished it last year to the point where i never left w/o one or 2 in my bag. that's how confident i was in that lure. i fished it in a 4-8' heave late last fall, was kicking stones up to 6" of the shoreline, and had to pull the lure from the water it dug in that well. i was getting down 6'+ easily. how? bend the eye of the lure up as much as you need to get the desired results. you will not be disappointed. even stock out of the package, the diving swimmer goes down about 3-5' depending on the surf conditions.

[lurch]

I think for most surfcasting scenarios a tattoo swimmer will work great but I am thinking of certain locations in the canal where I want to get down quick. The problem is with a medium swimmer, the current will take the lure before it gets down to the depth I feel the fish are at.

I bought some tattoo divers and have not used them yet but with lure adjustments I should be able to get them down far enough.

[NIB]

On a swimmer bend the eyelet up an the lip up this will make it dig good u want more depth add a heavier front treble like a heavy owner.A bottle plug will get u to those dephts ur lookin for also.Worked well for me in similar scenario to the canal.

[Canalman]

I don't think you'll find a deep diver that will hang in the current at the ditch and still come back to you in one piece. With the current and the lip... that plug would get down and very likely snag as you pulled it up the embankment.... I could be wrong... but isn't that why we have storms and the like?

-Dave

[lurch]

Originally Posted by Canalman

I don't think you'll find a deep diver that will hang in the current at the ditch and still come back to you in one piece. With the current and the lip... that plug would get down and very likely snag as you pulled it up the embankment.... I could be wrong... but isn't that why we have storms and the like?

-Dave

Good point! Maybe the ditch was a bad example. There are so many places where I can think of that a very deep swimmer would be perfect to use but a bottle plug would work well too.

[NIB]

Originally Posted by Canalman

I don't think you'll find a deep diver that will hang in the current at the ditch and still come back to you in one piece. With the current and the lip... that plug would get down and very likely snag as you pulled it up the embankment.... I could be wrong... but isn't that why we have storms and the like?

-Dave

There are plenty of places u can get out to work a plug back agianst the tide especially that last hr.u'd be surprised what moves up along the ledges when the tide craps out.Only problem i have with plugs are the trebles.even 4/0 hooks don't stand a chance in a full bore tide.U got to go with the heavy owners.they won't bend but they will pull. There is nothing like a good jig hook.Take a shad body an work the weights of the leadheads till u get the performance(depth) u want.Kreep that baby back up against the tide an hold on.Thats a gem of a NIB secret that has landed me many good fish.

[Canalman]

Yea at the tail end of the tide... but not at full tide... I've done best on my mac bottle darter.... jeeze I guess mac makes some quality stuff eh?

-Dave