As a manufacturer of spoon lures from China, we have made many such spoons but not use them. Usually we, produce them just as our customer's design and requirement. It's great video for us to understand how to use them and how work they are. Thank you very much!
Great and very informative clip , it makes me to recall the best of my wife's and my own fishing memories. Jigging spoons have been the most prefered lures for my wife , I guess , that she was just too lazy to cast and retrieve other lure types all day long(but she would not admit). During summer she would use heavy weight-forward spinners sometimes to slowly work along the bottom and occassionally plastic minnows , the latter only when letting our small boat drift with the wind to slowly toss and jig these over the bottom , so no frequent casting neccessary. But 85% to 90% of her fishing used to be with jigging spoons attached , and , like you said , she caught almost all local species with it , even eel and asp . Our biggest zander of 98 cm fell for a homemade jigging spoon , a wooden minnow body with a lead plug cast into in'ts body , so that it would sink a little slower than pure metal spoons . I have dozens of homemade leaden jigging spoons , that were cast in a silicone mold with a cavity created by pressing a small perch minnow into it . These lures proved to be real killers , so I reckon , maybe it has the appeal of the "real thing" to the senses of the predatory fish , who knows? I also used to change the hooks of my jigging spoons to Gamakatsus(ordinary , no wide gap) or to bronzed Eagle Claw Curved Points , just because these were the sharpest and pointiest hooks around , not only providing a better hook-up rate , but also able to foul-hook one or another fish from the outside of the mouth, as these hooks just do nothing else but stick. We haven't experienced many times , that fish would take our spoons on the drop somewhere in the water column , but maybe this ist just , since we were not familiar to your methods of letting the lure down slowly , that you are hereby kindly describing. My wife had another strategy , which is completely out-of-the-box , if you think of it : She would buy heavier jigging spoons meant for saltwater fishing for cod in the Baltic Sea , with 50 to 120grams(roughly 2 to 4 1/2 ounces)these were much , much too heavy for her rod , but since she did never cast , but only let the lures down , she did not bother . She strongly believed , that these ridiculously heavy spoons would just slam on the bottom , creating a big impact , a puff of sediment and noise to make the fish curious and call them from greater distances. Many a times our fishing buddies laughed and mocked her , but she insisted on her method and her success did prove her right and at some point they just kept shut . Nowadays we haven't taken boat trips anymore in years , but most likely we do stationary bank fishing , just don't feel like sitting in that small boat anymore with increasing age and declining bodily fitness : anglerverband-hh.de/images/gewaesser-bilder/fotos/dove-elbe/dov05a.jpg Picture was taken without us taking notice in winter somewhen during the very early 2000's and published on the site of the Hamburg Angling Association , providing an impression of one particular fishing water amongst a few other pictures. I remember ,that this day the water had frozen over for the first time that winter and we had to break through the thin ice with our portable boat , naturally we did not catch due to the sudden temperature drop , If I remember right it was only one small perch and a foul-hooked small carp, off course on my homemade jigging spoons .
I think your wife is a natural born angler! The technique you describe her doing works well at times here to. It gets the fishes attention and the fast fall triggers what we call a reaction strike. I think of it like this: If someone throws a baseball at you there are generally 2 ways for you to react. You can move out of the way or catch it. A fish uses it's mouth in a reactionary way when they slam these heavy spoons. Right now all of the waters around my home are frozen with several inches or more of ice. It's been a cold winter here so far. Looking forward to spring! Thanks for watching.
In biology, Conjugate means a temporary unity of living organisms for a specific reproductive or survival value, in this case it is correct to use it 👌🏼
Watching this before work,good way to start my day.The information and explanation is right up there with tactical bassn for me.I love fishing a spoon!
Great topic. Never thought to use jigging spoons In different times of the year. Caught my pb walleye at beltzville , jigging a silver buddy off a main lake point. Great show.
@@fishden365 fishing with spoons is a new concept for me as well as fishing from a boat and using electronics to locate fish. I have been targeting striped bass in one of our lakes nearby and had been getting skunked bad until I started started using a spoon. Here lately I’ve been putting the hammer to them and actually got my first limit of 10 nice size stripers by myself on the same spoon it was actually incredible! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge it’s because of you and others I’ve had success! Tight lines and blessings to you!
I usually start with a 1/2 oz or 3/4 oz spoon and always use flourocarbon leader connecting to it. Usually 10 to 15 pound test. Lighter spoons demand lighter line. I typically use 20 lb braid as my main line and my leader is 2 to 4 rod lengths long depending on water clarity. Longer for clearer water.
You shared a ton of great information, Den. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope the holiday season is a happy one for all of you.
I Don't have any personal experience in fishing in CA and I don't personally know anyone who fishes regularly there but if you check out Tactical Bassin, they used to live on Clear lake and have done very well with these baits there and other CA lakes and rivers.
Further...., anyone who can't get the concept of how to jig a spoon, simply dead stick them, let them fall while holding rod tip about 800 position, let it stay on bottom a few seconds, then reel back up. Dead sticking is a slower , maby more boring method, but you dont have to try to determine line tension, Just let the spoon do all the work on the fall . It will keep its own proper tension on the lure.
A lot of people catch alewife and troll or drift live bait. I haven’t been able to catch them. Got the permit and everything. Got any swim bait tips to match the hatch? (Alewife)
Casting or trolling Alabama rigs is a mainstay there. Try White swimbaits abound 3 inches long and use a slightly larger one or one of different color for the middle bait. Sometimes stripers will key in on the one that looks different from the rest. This method works there.
Absolutely, it is one of the gold standards in spoon fishing and I caught my share of fish on it. With spoons, like other lures, always throw what you have confidence in.
@@fishden365 - The first vertical jigging I did was with a Castmaster that I had been chunking and winding, It didn't take long to learn that jigging it was productive and it became a regular technique for me. Next, I started jigging the Hopkins and continued to be successful, so I kept trying other baits. On a frigid January day, fishing shear bluff walls on Pyramid Lake in L.A. County, I boated a 4 pound bass on a Kastmaster and had a guy tell me I wasn't supposed to be able to cath fish that way on that lure. Fishing the salt out from Santa Barbara, I had always used live bait until I found some good-size diamond jigs. Tried them out and caught Ling Cod to over 50 pounds. Yeah, you could say I'm a believer. I'm only half way through the video at the moment and you haven't gotten to rigging these lures yet. But I'll say, now, that I've learned two critical tricks to rigging these jigs: You need a split ring (Kastmasters have them out of the box- Hopkins don't) or to tie a loop knot to provide maximum action on these jigs and (2) you need to tie a ball bearing swivel (Sampo) in line or you'll have hell with line twist.
Best spoon, blade tutorial I have seen to date!! Thanks brother!
As a manufacturer of spoon lures from China, we have made many such spoons but not use them. Usually we, produce them just as our customer's design and requirement. It's great video for us to understand how to use them and how work they are. Thank you very much!
Thank you.
this video is solid gold. as someone just getting starting in striper fishing with slabs and spoons this is INVALUABLE information. Thank You!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great and very informative clip , it makes me to recall the best of my wife's and my own fishing memories.
Jigging spoons have been the most prefered lures for my wife , I guess , that she was just too lazy to cast and retrieve other lure types all day long(but she would not admit).
During summer she would use heavy weight-forward spinners sometimes to slowly work along the bottom and occassionally plastic minnows , the latter only when letting our small boat drift with the wind to slowly toss and jig these over the bottom , so no frequent casting neccessary.
But 85% to 90% of her fishing used to be with jigging spoons attached , and , like you said , she caught almost all local species with it , even eel and asp .
Our biggest zander of 98 cm fell for a homemade jigging spoon , a wooden minnow body with a lead plug cast into in'ts body , so that it would sink a little slower than pure metal spoons .
I have dozens of homemade leaden jigging spoons , that were cast in a silicone mold with a cavity created by pressing a small perch minnow into it .
These lures proved to be real killers , so I reckon , maybe it has the appeal of the "real thing" to the senses of the predatory fish , who knows?
I also used to change the hooks of my jigging spoons to Gamakatsus(ordinary , no wide gap) or to bronzed Eagle Claw Curved Points , just because these were the sharpest and pointiest hooks around , not only providing a better hook-up rate , but also able to foul-hook one or another fish from the outside of the mouth, as these hooks just do nothing else but stick.
We haven't experienced many times , that fish would take our spoons on the drop somewhere in the water column , but maybe this ist just , since we were not familiar to your methods of letting the lure down slowly , that you are hereby kindly describing.
My wife had another strategy , which is completely out-of-the-box , if you think of it :
She would buy heavier jigging spoons meant for saltwater fishing for cod in the Baltic Sea , with 50 to 120grams(roughly 2 to 4 1/2 ounces)these were much , much too heavy for her rod , but since she did never cast , but only let the lures down , she did not bother .
She strongly believed , that these ridiculously heavy spoons would just slam on the bottom , creating a big impact , a puff of sediment and noise to make the fish curious and call them from greater distances.
Many a times our fishing buddies laughed and mocked her , but she insisted on her method and her success did prove her right and at some point they just kept shut .
Nowadays we haven't taken boat trips anymore in years , but most likely we do stationary bank fishing , just don't feel like sitting in that small boat anymore with increasing age and declining bodily fitness :
anglerverband-hh.de/images/gewaesser-bilder/fotos/dove-elbe/dov05a.jpg
Picture was taken without us taking notice in winter somewhen during the very early 2000's and published on the site of the Hamburg Angling Association , providing an impression of one particular fishing water amongst a few other pictures.
I remember ,that this day the water had frozen over for the first time that winter and we had to break through the thin ice with our portable boat , naturally we did not catch due to the sudden temperature drop , If I remember right it was only one small perch and a foul-hooked small carp, off course on my homemade jigging spoons .
I think your wife is a natural born angler! The technique you describe her doing works well at times here to. It gets the fishes attention and the fast fall triggers what we call a reaction strike. I think of it like this: If someone throws a baseball at you there are generally 2 ways for you to react. You can move out of the way or catch it. A fish uses it's mouth in a reactionary way when they slam these heavy spoons. Right now all of the waters around my home are frozen with several inches or more of ice. It's been a cold winter here so far. Looking forward to spring! Thanks for watching.
@@fishden365
Yeah , my wife really has a feel for the fish . I build tackle and lures and she catches them , most likely , LOL .
Awesome instructional video!
Thank you! Cheers!
Congregate, not conjugate.
Thanks for all the awesome videos. Big fan, great information.
Thanks for watching!
In biology, Conjugate means a temporary unity of living organisms for a specific reproductive or survival value,
in this case it is correct to use it 👌🏼
Watching this before work,good way to start my day.The information and explanation is right up there with tactical bassn for me.I love fishing a spoon!
Thanks Liter One. Spoon fishing is awesome!
Great video!
Thanks.
Good video it got the fishing ideas brewing
Good to hear!
This was a master class! Thank you so much for this effort
Glad you enjoyed it!
Agree.. thanks for sharing your knowledge, appreciate this
I fish for catfish mostly but I think that is something I would like to try thank you
Great topic. Never thought to use jigging spoons
In different times of the year.
Caught my pb walleye at beltzville , jigging a silver buddy off a main lake point.
Great show.
Thanks Ed. I caught several nice walleye at B'ville in 48 - 52 ft of water several summers back...
Excellent spoon tips thank you for sharing!
Thank you.
@@fishden365 fishing with spoons is a new concept for me as well as fishing from a boat and using electronics to locate fish. I have been targeting striped bass in one of our lakes nearby and had been getting skunked bad until I started started using a spoon. Here lately I’ve been putting the hammer to them and actually got my first limit of 10 nice size stripers by myself on the same spoon it was actually incredible! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge it’s because of you and others I’ve had success! Tight lines and blessings to you!
Good Video. What about line size and spoon weight to use ? Thanks
I usually start with a 1/2 oz or 3/4 oz spoon and always use flourocarbon leader connecting to it. Usually 10 to 15 pound test. Lighter spoons demand lighter line. I typically use 20 lb braid as my main line and my leader is 2 to 4 rod lengths long depending on water clarity. Longer for clearer water.
Good stuff brother 😎👍🏽 I caught my biggest fish of the day on a spoon the other day. I think it’s a very overlooked bait now days.
I agree and I am happy it is!
I found an old HUR Jensen lure…. I fish it like a kastmaster… I would like to try it as a spoon? (?)
Ty so much for making it make sense for me! I’ve been trying to target summer white bass with my spoon and I never connect. I think this will help
Let me know how you do.
Like the video Den. This one is my favorite. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks Darren.
You shared a ton of great information, Den. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope the holiday season is a happy one for all of you.
Thanks Tim
Great info, I'm ready to give it a shot. Thanks for all you do!!!!! Merry Xmas
Thanks and Merry Christmas Matt
Good video Den ! Merry Christmas !!
Thanks Mike!
That weedless idea, I'm doing it thanks!
Let me know how it goes!
VERY GOOD VID.
Thank you.
This a good bait for bass in lakes in CA?
I Don't have any personal experience in fishing in CA and I don't personally know anyone who fishes regularly there but if you check out Tactical Bassin, they used to live on Clear lake and have done very well with these baits there and other CA lakes and rivers.
Great video buddy
Thanks 👍
Further...., anyone who can't get the concept of how to jig a spoon, simply dead stick them, let them fall while holding rod tip about 800 position, let it stay on bottom a few seconds, then reel back up. Dead sticking is a slower , maby more boring method, but you dont have to try to determine line tension, Just let the spoon do all the work on the fall . It will keep its own proper tension on the lure.
same can be applied to the blade bait.
Do you ever try to troll these? Or troll umbrella rigs in lake wallenpaupack?
Trolling is not my thing but I know that it can be very effective on Wallenpaupack...especially for striper.Thanks for watching.
A lot of people catch alewife and troll or drift live bait. I haven’t been able to catch them. Got the permit and everything. Got any swim bait tips to match the hatch? (Alewife)
Casting or trolling Alabama rigs is a mainstay there. Try White swimbaits abound 3 inches long and use a slightly larger one or one of different color for the middle bait. Sometimes stripers will key in on the one that looks different from the rest. This method works there.
Fresh!!!
Have you ever tried, just jigging for
all species of fish with a Kastmaster Spoon?
yes it is a very effective spoon and sometimes the fish will only eat the little ones.
Any love for a kastmaster?
Absolutely, it is one of the gold standards in spoon fishing and I caught my share of fish on it. With spoons, like other lures, always throw what you have confidence in.
@@fishden365 - The first vertical jigging I did was with a Castmaster that I had been chunking and winding, It didn't take long to learn that jigging it was productive and it became a regular technique for me. Next, I started jigging the Hopkins and continued to be successful, so I kept trying other baits. On a frigid January day, fishing shear bluff walls on Pyramid Lake in L.A. County, I boated a 4 pound bass on a Kastmaster and had a guy tell me I wasn't supposed to be able to cath fish that way on that lure.
Fishing the salt out from Santa Barbara, I had always used live bait until I found some good-size diamond jigs. Tried them out and caught Ling Cod to over 50 pounds.
Yeah, you could say I'm a believer.
I'm only half way through the video at the moment and you haven't gotten to rigging these lures yet. But I'll say, now, that I've learned two critical tricks to rigging these jigs: You need a split ring (Kastmasters have them out of the box- Hopkins don't) or to tie a loop knot to provide maximum action on these jigs and (2) you need to tie a ball bearing swivel (Sampo) in line or you'll have hell with line twist.
I suspect you can see the line bounce as the spoon is fluttering down…
Many times yes, but sometimes not. At times you just lift up and feel the weight of the fish.