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In Strike King Journal entry
#7, Mark Rose talked about using Strike King's Spit-N-King...
Question: Backwater areas are usually
covered in timber and tree stumps. Give me three tactics for
fishing backwater areas.
Answer: First of all, in miles and
miles of stump rows, you need to try to find something to
differentiate one stump row from the other. Try to pinpoint
a channel swing or deeper stumps, or shallower stumps, and
let the weather conditions guide you. In hot weather, the
fish may be suspended up on the stumps. You may try throwing
a Strike King swimming jig around. If you feel like the fish
are down on the bases of stumps, try throwing a tube or a
Deep Series 6-crankbait out on the base of the stumps. If
you feel like the fish are right up on top, throw a Spit-N-King.
Try different things. Every stump isn't going to have bass
at the same depth.
In Strike King Journal entry
#12, Lee Knight talked about using Strike King's Spit-N-King...
Question: You go to the lake, but
rain's been falling all night. The weather has been clear
for three days beforehand. How are you going to catch the
fish?
Answer: If the weather was clear
for three days, then all of the lake shouldn't be muddy. If
it's been raining, the sky should be pretty dark. That's the
kind of day I like -- dark and overcast. That kind of day
allows me to use the fast-moving lures that I like: spinner
baits, buzzbaits, Spit-N-Kings.
In Strike King Journal entry
#14, George Cochran talked about using Strike King's Spit-N-King...
Cochran: Another lure I like is a
top-water bait made by Strike King, which I think is one of
the hottest lures on the market, called the Spit-N-King. It's
been really sensational in the summertime. When you're fishing
out in open water over structure, or even around shallow cover,
it's been one of the hottest bass producers all over the country.
In Strike King Journal entry
#23, Shaw Grigsby talked about using Strike King's Spit-N-King...
Question: Have you had any salt-water
experiences with Strike King baits where a lure saved your
day of fishing?
Grigsby: Absolutely. I was fishing
on the East Coast of Florida around the Cape Canaveral area.
My guide was Shawn Foster. He's accustomed to catching 30-,
40- and 50-pound redfish. He may be one of the best redfish
anglers I know. I wanted to see how these Strike King baits
would work on redfish.
Shawn said, "To catch redfish, you've got to have some really
big baits," and he held out a handful of lures that were really
big and bulky. I said, "I really want to try Strike King's
Spit-N-King -- a little lure about 3-inches long that spits,
darts back and forth and has a really erratic movement. This
was before Strike King developed the Spin-N-Mullet.
The first spot we went to was an oyster bar with rocks on
the shore line. Foster started throwing his big top-water
lures, and I cast behind him with my little Spit-N-King. I
had only twitched the bait about three times when I saw this
big wake coming up behind the bait. All of a sudden, I caught
this huge redfish. Then I caught three more really big redfish
on the next three casts.
Foster couldn't believe that those really big redfish would
take that little Spit-N-King. He was so convinced about how
effective that little lure was that he asked me to leave him
a sackful of them because he had a redfish tournament to fish
that upcoming weekend.
That little Spit-N-King made the day because I was fishing
with one of the top redfish fishermen in the nation, and he
was so totally convinced that you had to have really big top-water
lures to catch big redfish that he wouldn't even consider
fishing with my little Spit-N-King until the bait proved him
wrong. But then when he saw the redfish-catching ability of
the Spit-N-King, he didn't just want one, he wanted a sackful.
This lure has a lot of action; it makes a lot of noise; the
redfish can locate it easily; and redfish can get this lure
in its mouth. So, on this day, not only did the Spit-N-King
save the day, it gave me an opportunity to say - "I told you
so."
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