Backwater Eddy
01-20-2003, 10:17 AM
I'll share a inside tip on kicking Rap JR's up a notch. Take the treble off the JR and slip on a scented tube jig body. Pop the front hook through, do the same with the top eye and bottom eye, reattach the treble to the bottom eye. Don't worry about if the front hook is fully exposed, it is seldom the one a fish gets in his jaw anyway but they work well to hold the tube in place.
What you get by doing this trick is a larger 3-D profile bait with some extra jiggle-de-wiggle, and added scent. You can also add a minnow head or whole minnow on the rear hook for scent.
They have a big hop and still do a great job of horizontal coverage.
I have found that pike, walleye, trout, even cats go for this trick. I have not tried it on the tiny #3 JR's. It should work on perch and crappie with tiny tubes, worth a shot anyway?
Another tip is those old JR's that have broken tail fins, they work just as well with this tube trick, maybe even better. So if you have been saving them up now you know what to do with them junk tail-less JR's.
The tube baits I have been using are the Berkley power tubes. I have caught some big pike and Walleye on the white, gold flake, and the purple tubes this season.
(Now remember, everyone that reads and user's my tip has to send me a buck in the mail. :D HA!
Give it a shot, see what you think of it.
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson...><sUMo>
"Backwater Guiding"
http://ed-carlson.fishingbuddy.com
What you get by doing this trick is a larger 3-D profile bait with some extra jiggle-de-wiggle, and added scent. You can also add a minnow head or whole minnow on the rear hook for scent.
They have a big hop and still do a great job of horizontal coverage.
I have found that pike, walleye, trout, even cats go for this trick. I have not tried it on the tiny #3 JR's. It should work on perch and crappie with tiny tubes, worth a shot anyway?
Another tip is those old JR's that have broken tail fins, they work just as well with this tube trick, maybe even better. So if you have been saving them up now you know what to do with them junk tail-less JR's.
The tube baits I have been using are the Berkley power tubes. I have caught some big pike and Walleye on the white, gold flake, and the purple tubes this season.
(Now remember, everyone that reads and user's my tip has to send me a buck in the mail. :D HA!
Give it a shot, see what you think of it.
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson...><sUMo>
"Backwater Guiding"
http://ed-carlson.fishingbuddy.com