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Soft Plastic Lures For Salt Water Fishing
When I first began fishing for Striped Bass one of the annual rituals we had was greeting the first arrivals of the spring run at our favorite early season spot. We would start making the effort sometime late in March during the milder years and by mid-April if winter had been slow to give in. In either case those early season outings were never very warm, with the water temperature usually hovering just below fifty degrees and the most favorable condition for catching fish being a southwest breeze over it. Some days it was like ice fishing minus the ice. Our method consisted of casting lead-head jigs, often tipped with grub tails. We used small stuff, mostly less than one-half ounce, and would often tie in a teaser fly up higher on the leader that was not much more than three or four hairs tied on a hook. Some guys liked to use single tail twisty grubs, some preferred the double tails, and some of us were using the smallest rubber shad bodies we could find. Then something came along that revolutionized salt-water fishing. Around 1999 or 2000 Storm Lures started making very realistic swim-shad lures with a keel-weighted salt-water hook molded right into them. The lures were available in a variety of sizes and colors and their action was incredible. Most of us put away our lead-head jig molds and were total converts in no time. It wasn't long before other manufacturers started targeting the market and at this point there are endless variations on these lures. Tsunami, Berkley, Offshore Angler and D.O.A. are
just a few of the others offering rigged soft plastics to fit almost every facet of salt-water fishing. We're not just using these types of lures for early spring schoolies but throughout the season. The swim-shads are now available to match all different sorts of baitfish patterns from the smallest silverside to the largest bunker - Storm Lures offers a swim-shad in it's Wild Eye line that is nine inches and rigged with double hooks. They have also started offering rigged eel imitations in ten-and-a-half and thirteen-and-a-half inch lengths. You will also find these rigged soft plastics to imitate the prey of many of your other favorite salt-water game fish. Shrimp, crab and lobster patterns are all available, as are a number of patterns designed for targeting southern species like redfish and snook. All of the lures I've mentioned so far are available rigged. If you don't mind rigging your own the possibilities only expand further. There are literally soft plastic imitations of every kind of bait in every different size you can think of available today. Additionally, many lure manufacturers are starting to offer hybrid lures - a combination of the realistic appearance of soft plastics and the realistic swimming characteristics of a conventional stick-bait. If you're a hold out and haven't really given any of these "new generation" lures a fair try there couldn't be a better time. You'll find an array of soft plastic lures to compliment your fishing arsenal no matter what type of fishing you do.
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