great bass lure

[balapickerel]

allright i have been saving this for softwater but i can tell you guys now, one of my favorite and most effective bass lures is composed of a hook, and this

 

[balapickerel]

i'm not sure what makes the bass go for these cottonballs but i have caught many on them, they can be unrolled, twisted and ripped/cut into whatever size the fish prefer, and they can easily soak up whatever scent you put on them,(good old fishguts work great!) and you can buy hundreds of them for under a dollar

 

[David Kearney]

are you cereal?? They work?? do you soke them everytime?? or do they still catch on no scent?? and what size hook are you using #2 #3?

 

[diggyj]

I know some of the pros have a TIP by where they stuff cotton into Tubes when the are jigging, sprayed with scent but I have never heard of it being used on its own.

Dirk...

 

[balapickerel]

i use them unscented most of the time and still catch lots of fish, and i just use the biggest hooks i have with me at the time

 

[YAWN]

balapickerel r u serious or pulling everyones leg cause I'm confused!

 

[balapickerel]

i am being 100% honest here, the only thing i don't know for sure is wheather this works in all waters(i have only tried it in three places, wich i will post reports of come june)

 

[ec1]

you've gotta be joking with me man.
But hey, it'd be nice if you could prove me wrong!

well, Come to think about it, the cotton is just like any marabou tube thing. Just minus the plastic body. Who knows?

 

[balapickerel]

and when twisted it looks a lot like some soft plastic stick baits
come fall, if i haven't caught over 100 bass on it and recorded them in pictures than i will have been proven wrong

 

[efka]

its cheap way of flyfishing but you will catch fish with it. however you will waste time twisting it on the hook, cause it wont hold good for many casts. you will catch fish because you "fly" looks like white bunny leech (one of the popular bass flies).

 

[balapickerel]

true, they don't hold onto the hook too well but that is made up for by the cost, i've found them for as little as 50cents for two hundred(dollarama)

 

[efka]

better learn how to tie flies if you want to fish that way, instead of leaving a bag of cotton balls in the lake or river or whereever you fish after every fishing trip. not only that, the lost cotton balls can be swollowed by other fish or get tangled in their mouths stuck on the teeth.
just a though.

 

[balapickerel]

i do tie flies and i'm quite good at it, i just can't get the cotton to stay together once it's tied on the hook, who else here ties flies :wink:

 

[efka]

you tie cotton to the hook? well thats new.
usually dubbing is used.

 

[balapickerel]

do you tie flies?, you seem to know your fair share of info on the topic

 

[diggyj]

Won't fishermans glue hold it on?

 

[efka]

yes i do. i did buy them at the begining though. the realy small ones that are hard to make i dont bother and just buy. im not a pro but i try my best.

 

[balapickerel]

my limitation when it comes to fly tying is not skill it's matierial, i naver get around to getting new supplies, either that or i spend my money on something else

Won't fishermans glue hold it on?

it's not a matter of being held on, it's the fact that the strands the cotton is made up of don't hold on to eachother too well and the cotton comes apart, if it is twisted however, it does strengthen it up quite a bit, at leas enough to hold together in a bass fight when it's got a hook through it

 

[efka]

my limitation when it comes to fly tying is not skill it's matierial, i naver get around to getting new supplies, either that or i spend my money on something else

there is a guy on other website selling all his supply (worth $500) for $250 i bet he could go even lower.
at first its hard to swallow spending 250 on fly tieing stuff, but the material you get will last you long long time and its well worth it in the long run trust me.

 

[balapickerel]

i know, i have two fly boxes full of flies that i tied myself, but i've never caught anything on them cause i only got my fly rod at christmas, that why i really need to get some hipwaders, i know a really good spot for trout but it's not fishable from shore and the big trout season will be over by the time the water is warm enough to go in without waders, so i think i'll get some of those before buying more fly tying stuff, besides, you can comprimise a lot of expensive fly tying stuff with stuff from a dollar store