And the piling wins!
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I went out the other evening behind OC just to get a line in the water. It was just the usual fare of 12" - 24" stripers. They were fairly numerous, active, and feeding aggressively. I started with an X-rap 10. The fish were all over it. In times like this when I know I'll be catching the same cookie-cutter sized fish over and over, I'll often switch up lures or try lures I don't fish very often to see how they measure up.
Hence, I switched from the X-rap 10 to a similar sized, some-what similar colored mirrolure (52M - one picture above before it broke). Man, I could barely buy a bite on it. I fished it every way possible. Twitches, slow with no twitches, slightly faster, more twitches, less twitches, drug it across the bottom, kept it up high. Nothing wanted it. I think I had two bumps on it but never a hookup. Finally, I gave the thing a big ole' cranking windup, fired a Randy Johnson fastball of a cast, and clipped a concrete piling. Bam! The lure split in half and busted off a point on the front treble. A fitting end to the lure. I switch back over to the X-rap and I start catching again.
I've had this happen before out of Rumbley. Fish after fish on the X-rap. Eventually I snagged something under the water and lost the lure. I put on a mirrolure (catch jr. 22MR this time) and can't buy a bite. Switch to something else and immediately start catching again. I've had similar experience with snakeheads too. Catching with an X-rap, they won't touch the mirrolure.
Are X-raps just that much better than mirrolures? Or I am just not fishing them properly technique wise? I know mirrolures work, and I have caught some fish on them, but from my personal experiences other lures work much better and I'm ready to give up on them completely. If you catch with them, what is the secret?
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I went out the other evening behind OC just to get a line in the water. It was just the usual fare of 12" - 24" stripers. They were fairly numerous, active, and feeding aggressively. I started with an X-rap 10. The fish were all over it. In times like this when I know I'll be catching the same cookie-cutter sized fish over and over, I'll often switch up lures or try lures I don't fish very often to see how they measure up.
Hence, I switched from the X-rap 10 to a similar sized, some-what similar colored mirrolure (52M - one picture above before it broke). Man, I could barely buy a bite on it. I fished it every way possible. Twitches, slow with no twitches, slightly faster, more twitches, less twitches, drug it across the bottom, kept it up high. Nothing wanted it. I think I had two bumps on it but never a hookup. Finally, I gave the thing a big ole' cranking windup, fired a Randy Johnson fastball of a cast, and clipped a concrete piling. Bam! The lure split in half and busted off a point on the front treble. A fitting end to the lure. I switch back over to the X-rap and I start catching again.
I've had this happen before out of Rumbley. Fish after fish on the X-rap. Eventually I snagged something under the water and lost the lure. I put on a mirrolure (catch jr. 22MR this time) and can't buy a bite. Switch to something else and immediately start catching again. I've had similar experience with snakeheads too. Catching with an X-rap, they won't touch the mirrolure.
Are X-raps just that much better than mirrolures? Or I am just not fishing them properly technique wise? I know mirrolures work, and I have caught some fish on them, but from my personal experiences other lures work much better and I'm ready to give up on them completely. If you catch with them, what is the secret?
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