plastics

[slurpie]

Do you use your plastics on deep water fish more than shallow. I have tried the bro bloodworm multiple times in shallow water this year with no luck. today got on some deep fish 40' and they would nail that thing. So i was wondering if deep water fish are not as picky as swallow or what are your thoughts?

[Flaco651]

I've caught plenty shallow and deep on plastics. I use a lot of Little Atom plastics and Custom Jigs & Spins finesse plastics. If fish are present but aren't hittin', I'll just switch profiles of my jigs and or the plastic and usually find something that works. Marmooskas, genz worms, mud bugs, and gill getters have all worked well for me tipped with plastics this year. I'm gonna give the bro bloodworm a shot soon. Looks like it will put some fish on the ice.

[tearin' lips]

Plastics have worked equally well under both conditions for me. You did mention that you tried shallow and deep on different days, so it is possible that the day you fished in shallow that it would not have worked out in deeper water either.

Different days bring different weather patterns and Barometer readings. Certain conditions will bring the live Bloodworms off the bottom and it is possible that the day you fished deep had those perfect conditions and all the fish were actively feeding on blood worms emerging from the bottom.

With both trials occuring on different days it is hard to say, but as mentioned I have had great success with the new "Bro" Series of lures both over shallow and deeper water and on varying days. What i have found is that a new color is prefered just about everytime. I have not found just one color of this new plastics series that produces day in and day out, or even from hour to hour.

[LaXCarp]

I think substrate composition has a lot to do with selection. Shallow or deep, bloodworms will be found in a sand/muck bottom, so thats when I would choose to mimic one.