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Old 03-19-2013, 04:13 PM
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I have three of the old ones - one natural pearl/black back, one blue and orange and one clear - and am interested in throwing them this year. Never have really before. They're fairly beat up, have heavy duty hooks and split rings.

How do you work these things? I threw them in a clear pond and they didn't dive far when twitched and came back to surface very quick. Normally on lipped baits, I work them fairly fast to keep them at depth. These are much bigger, of course, and I'd like to go slower for the big girls. As well as giving it the appearance of, well, it having a broken back. But when I went much slower at all, they popped back to the surface. Normal?

TIA for any guidance here in dink country, home of the 15 inch "Nice one!!".
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Old 03-19-2013, 04:42 PM
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I like to burn em down and then slow down with a twitch and pause. Fast crank after pause then back to slow. One of the best big trout baits. I like the rainbow trout color. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1363729349.445377.jpg
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Old 03-19-2013, 05:42 PM
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If you want it to float back to the surface slower, you can buy lead stickers to put on it to slow it down or make it dive deeper
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Old 03-19-2013, 05:50 PM
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I have three of the old ones - one natural pearl/black back, one blue and orange and one clear - and am interested in throwing them this year. Never have really before. They're fairly beat up, have heavy duty hooks and split rings.

How do you work these things? I threw them in a clear pond and they didn't dive far when twitched and came back to surface very quick. Normally on lipped baits, I work them fairly fast to keep them at depth. These are much bigger, of course, and I'd like to go slower for the big girls. As well as giving it the appearance of, well, it having a broken back. But when I went much slower at all, they popped back to the surface. Normal?

TIA for any guidance here in dink country, home of the 15 inch "Nice one!!".
In jerkbaits, you have basically 4 styles....floating, slow-rise, slow-sink and suspend. The only one of these that you can "dead stick" is one that suspends.
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Old 03-21-2013, 06:12 PM
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One of my all time favorite Trout baits. You'll get bit on that bait for sure. Work it with short rib n stop. "Slow roll" works also. Hard to find the old original Thunderstick. Use heavy line, would hate to loose that one.
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