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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

How do YOU rig Slug-Gos for fishing schoolie stripers in a river? The thing that has me puzzled is how to get enough weight on it to get it down to the bottom through the current, while still keeping a streamlined presentation.
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BigEd · Joined: 22 Feb 2012 Posts: 103 Location: Monroe

I like the Owner weighted twistlock swimbait hooks when I use super flukes of Keitech shad impact's in deeper water. I assume they would work with the slug-gos too.

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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

Okay, let me clarify the question. Rolling Eyes

Please reply if:

1) You actually use Slug-gos to fish for schoolie stripers in a river;

2) You have some experience with them that might be helpful; and

3) You don't mind sharing your experience with me.

Stephen - Gee, thanks for sharing the wonderment and joy that your discovery of Google has brought you. You might find Bing and Yahoo! to be a lot of fun, too. And thanks for not postiing any cartoons in your reply. Rolling Eyes

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SeaDog1 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 2629

Hi Phil,

FYI:
I already use Google, Bing, Yahoo, Copernic, + 3 other search engines, and try to cross-reference through all of them.

Never know which one just may have the answer your looking for Thumbs Up

Best regards,
SeaDog1 Mr. Green

PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

Okay, let me clarify the question, again. Please reply if:

1) You actually use Slug-gos to fish for schoolie stripers in a river;

2) You have some experience with them that might be helpful;

3) You don't mind sharing your experience with me; and

4) You're not SeaDog1 (aka Stephen). Wink

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Redneckangler · Joined: 05 May 2012 Posts: 851 Location: Meriden, CT

Let's see. Yes, yes, yes and yes.

Some pics of rigged sluggos, Hogy's and 9" Fin-S type shads. This is but the tip of the iceberg! Mostly pearl during the day, but I carry pink, yellow, chartreuse and some hard swim baits like Sebelles. Typically fish 7-9" soft plastics, especially for top water, but sometimes bigger if I've got some big slobs showing up or trolling deeper. At night I switch to the purples. Love the Yum Houdini Shads. FF3 carries them. I fish almost all stripers from April-November. We can meet up on the river if you want. Come April we won't be messing with all schoolies. Very Happy

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fishfinder · Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1672 Location: Naugatuck, Ct.

Nice assortment RNA. I pretty much use them unweighted or exactly like the 4th one down.
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SaltyVeins · Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 83

Unweighted or using weighted EWGs is definitely my favorite way to fish sluggos - just love the action you can impart on them that way. When I have to fish them on jigheads I like Kalin's ultimate jig heads. Good strong hook and I like the way they balance.

Every try drop shotting for those schoolies? Should be able to use a decent sized weight, then you could even just dead stick the sluggo. Worth a shot. The only winter river fishing I've done is from shore so I've never tried.

Redneckangler · Joined: 05 May 2012 Posts: 851 Location: Meriden, CT

When the herring get moving up river I'm looking for that good topwater bite. Fish the magic hour at dawn or dusk. Then the 7" with an unweighted Owner or those Gamakatsu hook is the way to go. You'll get plenty of casting distance with a MH 7' or 7'-6" rod. The only reason for the weighted is if you want to send it down quick to fish the bottom with the big bullet heads, or have the ability to sink it slowly with the weighted hooks.

PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

Hey, thanks, Brian. Would an unweighted six inch Slug-Go rigged with an EWG hook sink to the bottom in 30 feet of water quickly enough to be practical to fish? Wouldn't I have to stick lead nail weights into the Slug-Go to make it heavy enough? Keep in mind that I'm fishing only for schoolie stripers on or near the bottom in 20 to 45 feet of water, right now, and I'd prefer to keep my lures as streamlined as possible, which means that I'd like to keep the shank of the hook completely inside the Slug-Go with only the tip of the hook exposed.
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SeaDog1 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 2629

Hi RNA,

Thamks for your Slug-Go rigging ideas.

I've been looking for a away to bump along the bottom a mini/micro version of a Slug-Go (Sculpin for river Browns) using a fly rod rig.
You've given me some excellent ideas with pics to work off.
Now it's a matter of my figuring out how to down size with right hook and not lose any lure action.

SeaDog1 Mr. Green

SaltyVeins · Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 83

Can't imagine an unweighted sluggo could ever be fished that deep. Even weighted EWGs just tend to help increase casting distance and help keep the lure subsurface during the retrieve. Never used nail weights but I doubt they'd be enough to get you that deep, unless you were really patient and the current was nonexistent.

Redneckangler · Joined: 05 May 2012 Posts: 851 Location: Meriden, CT

Sea Duck · Joined: 18 Nov 2012 Posts: 89 Location: Above grade