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Tried out the artificials the other day...


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I've had a few unopened bottles of artificials sitting in my legends rod bag pocket for a couple years and decided to try them exclusively. The wife was using pink "Crappie Nibbles" on a Genz Worm and bobber. I was using a Gulp Minnow Tail (?) t-boned on a vertical jig on an actively jigged deadstick. We also used a large red glow spoon to draw the pan fish in (and you never know what else might come through) baited with a Gulp Maggot. The wife caught the first three Crappies and I was thinking of switching to the pink nibbles when I saw the spoon rod jiggling and then hauled up a nice crappie on the large spoon and Gulp Maggot. Strange, I really thought the minnow tail would produce the most. The pink nibbles ended up catching 6 Crappie, the Gulp Maggot on spoon caught one (the largest), and the Gulp minnow tail ended up with 4. All fish were caught in a 1.5 hour period from 4-5:30 PM (had to get home and watch the Gophers on Sunday). We had a few others who noticed our success walk over and ask us what we were using, ect. They had a light bite on standard minnows and the concensus seemed to be that we on the artificials did just as well as the minnow/larva fishermen. Next time I'll try minnows vs. artificials.

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Niced report ... thanks for sharing. Were you using "Gulp" or "Gulp Alive".

Gotta love the sent of Gulp. I have some Gulp Alive fry & minnow heads that I always keep on hand. Just waiting for the day they leak out the liquid and skink up my stuff. I keep them in a zip lock, hopefully that works.

I plan to try preserved minnows for the first time this weekend (Leech). It will be interesting to see how thy work.

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Niced report ... thanks for sharing. Were you using "Gulp" or "Gulp Alive".

Gotta love the sent of Gulp. I have some Gulp Alive fry & minnow heads that I always keep on hand. Just waiting for the day they leak out the liquid and skink up my stuff. I keep them in a zip lock, hopefully that works.

I plan to try preserved minnows for the first time this weekend (Leech). It will be interesting to see how thy work.

The Crappie Nibbles and the Maggots are a few years old so I think they are Gulp (I would have to check) and I bought the Minnow Tail this past Summer so I think they are probably Gulp Alive. The age of the artificial and the Gulpness didn't seem to make a difference.

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