New Lures In The Line-Up - SALTWATER TAKEOVER

So this lure making stuff is addictive. With parts not running a whole lot considering you get them in lots of 100,  I have started expanding here and there. This week I starting making my own classic style DucknBuck Classic Spinnerbaits, Saltwater Spinners, and Spinning Jigs. These are much heavier weight wire, larger blades, and stouter hooks. The jig heads are 1/4oz weight and tipped with a 3/0 sickle hook that really locks on a fish, and the wide gap hooks on the spinners are 3/0. All of this equals up to one heck of a fish catching piece of hardware! They are going to tear up the specks, redfish, striped bass, largemouth, and probably Pike as well.

Check'em out and if you like them, I have some for sale on EBAY or on Etsy. You can click on either of these to go directly to my listings.

DucknBuck Saltwater Spinner

DucknBuck Classic Saltwater Spinnerbait

DucknBuck Saltwater Spinning Jig

Calm before the storm

Called my buddy Kegan to fish the Warwick and James for puppy drum today for a couple hours. Checked the minnow traps behind the house and had 4 dozen or so. I put those in a couple five gallon buckets, grabbed a couple dozen fiddler crabs I caught yesterday , loaded the boat and we headed out to denbigh park ramp. I had seen fiddlers in the bellies of the ones I had been cleaning thought what the heck.  Fished various spots and ended with 21 puppy drums ,4 keepers. All of our big fish came from live fiddler crabs. Big storm started to roll in so we called it at 2pm and headed in just in time to avoid the monsoon.

 

Change of Plans 8/4/13

Left Eastern Shore early Sunday morning due to forecasted wind that would not be fun in a 16ft jon boat. Our alternate course of action was to beat feet and try to get home, unpacked and on the water before the 9:24AM high tide on the warwick river. After having to jump a dead truck battery and getting packed up and grabbing some Hardee's biscuits we set course for home. Got to the house, set the minnow trap and unloaded what we didnt need, hopped back in the truck and took off for the Denbigh boat ramp. We tried a couple places that were hot a week ago and it was COLD COLD COLD. Managed to catch a couple puppy drum but only one was a keeper. They just were not in same area so we made a little bit of a run to what was to be our last spot to "try" on the way back to the ramp and we hit pay dirt! Right off the get go we doubled up on two throw backs but i knew it was a good sign.

 For the next 2 hours we fished a one acre spot and caught over 50 puppy drum and a pile of good 1 to 1 1/2 lb. croakers. I even caught one tagged puppy drum in the process. With a stringer full of fish we headed back to the ramp to pull the boat and clean up from camping.