vishezfish Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 Man I am so excited, I caught 6 more bass on my own soft plastics!! I read on this site that it is a rush to cath em on your own lures, but wow!!! The funny thing is it was the first plastic bait I made, it was a one part mold of my own design, nothing fancy, and it's working... You guys are not kiddin!! I am addicted!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadlystreamer Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 Hey vishezfish, Super!! It's great to see you so excited about your soft plastic bait working and catching bass. Your excitement comes right through the PC screen. Keep up the good work and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishezfish Posted May 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 Thanks for the comment, your website is great! I am amazed that my baits worked!! I like senkosams website too, everyone makes great looking baits! I just started so I'm melting old lures but will buy Delws calhaun plastic soon!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Splash Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 It's a great hobby- and has become a part time business for me... Thanks to the guys here at TU. When I started out in the luremaking trade, I never knew plastics would make up such an important part of my business. I knew they would take up a large tackle box or two in my boat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish_N_Fool Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 I agree vishezfish, It great to get fish on your own design of bait. I went out yesterday to try out my SUPER sized soft jerkbait I make and hopefullt catch some Pike. The Jerk bait I was using was a large version (10") of my Sink-N-Fool in a baby bass color. Here is a differant colored one. I went to a new lake that has L.M.Bass, Pike, and some Muskies too I hear Anyway, On my second cast of the day I got a hit!!! I thought wow the Pike fishing is going to be great today. As it turned out my Pike turned into a 6 lb. L.M. bass but I wasn't complaining. That's a nice fish in anybody's book. I fished for about an hour with no hits . Then just like the first fish I got , i had a hit as I let the bait do it's free fall glide. It glides forward and down at a rate of about 2 ft. per second It looks like it's swimming as it falls, anyway I had another monster L.M. pick it up. Now I'm starting to rethink my Idea that this 10" bait is a pike bait. It is working great on L.M. in the 5lb. plus range. I fished for about 2 more hours and I did get a hit from what I think was a Pike. It didn't hit the bait at all like the first 2 hits I had. This time it about ripped the pole outa my hands. Then it swam right at me so I didn't get a good hook set. By the time I caught up to the fish it had droped the bait. I think I'm going to fish my big jerkbaits alot more from now on for monster Bass. I don't like catchin little fish anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishezfish Posted May 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 I use soft plastics 90% of the time!! I love em! I also use the jig, topwater and cranks, but my favorite is to throw a jerkbait out in the lilys and catch the Bucket mouth!! Senkosam your jerkbaits look great! If u don't mind me asking where r u from, I'm in nj and we don't really hear about to many 6lbers, I mean we get a few but not many, alot of 3's and 4's and even 5's!! Thanks to all you guys on the board, I learned alot and still learn from you!! Vishez fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebler_custom_baits Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 i honestly cant beleive how many 10 pluse bass are caught here. sounds like yall are doing good on your baits. i am now starting do make jigs for the saltwater since soft baits mainly dominate the freshwater here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishezfish Posted May 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 I'm just starting out, but yeah to my surprise I already caught 8 or ten fish on my bait! My friend was with me and I said, Hey try one! He said, Naa (while laughing!), but on our last trip they were hitting my bait again and he used one but only caught a rock bass on it, hek, I was proud anyway!! And my fish were decent size, 1 1/2 to 2lbers! I also caught rockbass and a bloody pick took one and broke my line!! But like I said, I'll take it! Senkosam had a kid catch a ten pounder i think, man that has to feel good! make em, take em and let em go!! Vishez fish (aka Dave ZAk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebler_custom_baits Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 you want to see numbers of very large fish caught on board members baits SRPlastics is the man. sooo many 10 lb + bass are caught on his baits every year. biggest ive got on one of my jigs is 6 1/2 but i got like 30 in too trips when i caught that. ive got a bunch of bass over 5 on plastics i poured. just a matter of where you live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishezfish Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I can't wait to catch a bass ten pounds or bigger.... But catching it on your own hand poured baits is the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
