Hard Water Gill Spoons

[Bob/MN]

I crafted some small spoons for the hard water Gill season.
The components used: #1 willow spinner, #14 hook, and rubber skirt material. The spoons are weighted with solder and are 1/32 once.
The unskirted versions are used with live bait(Spikes) The skirted versions are used bare bones or with piece of power bait or a piece of a power wiggler.

[ifish]

Nice. What are the red plastic things on the baits with skirts.? Great idea!!

[Fishaholic_Jim]

Very cool. How effective are they?

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[FurFlyin]

Very cool. I bet they'd work on liquid water too.

[Lene]

Oh man those are nice.I would be using those on the dock. Crappie fishing.


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[Bob/MN]

Nice. What are the red plastic things on the baits with skirts.? Great idea!!

I use red 210 ultra thread and coat the thread with uv head cement.

[Bob/MN]

Very cool. How effective are they?

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The ice is still unsafe and it will be a while before some field testing. But judging how well last year the larger #2 & #3 worked on crappies and the #3 1/2 & #4 worked on walleyes I suspect the #1 will work well.

[skiptomylu]

Good job, they look really good!

Skip

[Bigskyfisherman]

Hey, Skip. Those baits look great. I really admire your skill in making baits.
Crappiewrangler, a good friend, makes a very similar bait that just kills the crappie and a lot of other species on Texoma. He has a lot of posts on the Texoma 2017 thread on the Oklahoma state site, including step by step on how to make them. He only does one color, chartreuse/white, with sparkle. He doesn't sell them, but he gave me a few. I took some up to Montana this past summer, and they killed the trout better than any other lure, spoon, spinner, or live bait. Kept a limit and released 120 one day at a mountain lake, when others fishing from the bank, boats, and kayaks were catching zero to maybe 10 or so.
Keep up the good work.

[skiptomylu]

Hey, Skip. Those baits look great. I really admire your skill in making baits.
Crappiewrangler, a good friend, makes a very similar bait that just kills the crappie and a lot of other species on Texoma. He has a lot of posts on the Texoma 2017 thread on the Oklahoma state site, including step by step on how to make them. He only does one color, chartreuse/white, with sparkle. He doesn't sell them, but he gave me a few. I took some up to Montana this past summer, and they killed the trout better than any other lure, spoon, spinner, or live bait. Kept a limit and released 120 one day at a mountain lake, when others fishing from the bank, boats, and kayaks were catching zero to maybe 10 or so.
Keep up the good work.

Thanks, but these were posted by Bob, lol! I do also like them!

Skip