Thread: Panfish Lures (What's worked for you)?

Originally Posted by DRPEPPER

I hate it that the Foxee jigs are no longer available. I wished Skip or Ship would produce something like the Foxee jig. I still have a few and guard them like they are gold.
DP

I still have a few of my own Foxees too. This was one of my favorites.

Here is a link where I last got mine. Blue Fox - Lures - Foxee Jig I think there are places where you can still get the Foxee bodies and just put them on your own minnow jig heads. Nowadays I just usually fish a dropper jig combo of Danger! Danger! with either a jig or hook below it.

"Those work nicely in the 1/64 tipped with maggot or gulp waxie.
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Have not tried with a maggot or other natural bait .. should work real well .. here in my later years I go artificial .. except with the Grand Kids ..

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Originally Posted by cityboy

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Why do you have them upside down?

beetle spins in black and yellow is the go to bait. last year i was playing with a micro crank bait that i got at WM. I am about color blind, but smitty said that it was green. I believe him. The red ears could not lay off that bait. They would hit , on top, dead stick or twiching, or cranking. I could not find a way not to fish it. I went back to WM and got some more. cant wait !

Originally Posted by foul hook

last year i was playing with a micro crank bait that i got at WM.

What's the name, FH? I know Strike King has one called the "Bitsy Pond Minnow". Then there are the Yo-Zuri Snap Beans and the Matzuo Nano. I haven't tried any of them, but I'd be willing to.

Is it hard unhooking a bream with the treble hooks?

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

What's the name, FH? I know Strike King has one called the "Bitsy Pond Minnow". Then there are the Yo-Zuri Snap Beans and the Matzuo Nano. I haven't tried any of them, but I'd be willing to.

Is it hard unhooking a bream with the treble hooks?

I dont know about bluegill but that little snap bean will wear the trout out. DB4D I use the tiny rapalla crawdad in creeks for smallmouth and hook the occasional bluegill and the trebble hook is not to hard to get out, keep some small pliers handy though and pinch the barb on the hook down.

Originally Posted by Slipped Cork

I use the tiny rapalla crawdad in creeks for smallmouth

I picked up a couple of those recently. There's a stretch of the Chattahoochee River near me that has trout and shoal bass. I thought the crawfish might do well there. Haven't had a chance to try it out yet, though.