FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

All wide range of wobblers requires certain skills, experience and good knowledge of the reservoir.

Determine reservoir characteristics in order to choose a wobbler: depth, flow rate, water color. Choose bright colors for deep places and turbid water.When you fish in the water stream do not take wobblers with big “blades” and high frequency – their game will disorder. It is advisable to know what kind of fish you want to catch. A pike loves big slow-moving baits, a walleye pike - extended minnow as alburnand perch  -any little thing that is just moving briskly.

Craws should be mounted with their claws back. We will conduct a craw as if a alive crawfish is moving along the bottom. It is well known that a craw moves back with claws back, so we mount baitthis way and conduct this way. But there are exclusions. When the craw is massive and loaded with salt in its lower part it is mounted with an offset or a single hook, on the contrary, with claws in front. And with slight drawing and throwing it is moved along the bottom. It seems that a craw moves its claws upwards as if it is defending himself from a fish that attacks it and tries to eat it. It excites a predator to reach a craw and devour it. So we mount depending on the craw type, its design and features.

Bait’s color is selected depending on the location andfishing conditions. In poor visibility conditions it is recommended to use baits of brighter colors (in bad weather and muddy water). If fishing is expected on a sunny day in a reservoir with clean water it is better to take twisters of natural shades.

Setting up of silicone worms is usually done on single or offset hook. It is important that the silicone worm has a high degree of freedom so that it naturally twists in the water.Therefore hooks occupy only a small part of the worm and a connection with a load weight should be swivel. The hook can be installed with collapsible eared plummet, with a bullet-load in the Texas rigging or without any weighting, on a snood, when fishing withofftake snood, or directly on the line at drop shot.

The worms are universal, they can be offered on rigs with end-capping plummets, Caroline, Texasrigging or on jig heads and hooks of different shapes.

Mounting of shads in most cases is carried out on the jig head. Swivel connection is rarely used with small shads. Shad is active bait and its tail should play withrespect to the bait’s body.If the body is firmly fixed on the mounting the tail works well with respect to the body. If the body has a high degree of freedom while being supported with a swivela play of the tail cannot be or this play will be poor. You can choose a range of eared plummets for each model of a shad, for each dimension so that the bait works fine of the swivel. But this range is small.So you can experiment in the bathroom or on a sandbank and determine a weight for each of your shads. In cases where you need to use more or less weight use a jig head. Swivel mounting has a better performance in a distance of casting if you compare a jig head because of the smaller windage.  So in some cases when you need a longrange castingpreference is given to the swivel. Also when the fishing is done for pike perch in shoulders, pits with a short step wiring the quality of the tail’s game does not play such a big role. And here swivel is also frequently used. Baits are set up on offset hooks in places with snags, on a double hook – in more or less clean places.

The most typical game of craws is hopping with sharp and frequent tears, quit rapid fall to the bottom and long pauses (typically 3-5 seconds). As a rule, the bite occurs during this pause.

Size of the tail’s blade determines the game of the bait. Small blades make frequent fluctuations and provide intensive game of the bait while bigger blades provide powerful but slower game. There are also shads with a sharp ended tail or with a simple caudal fin which do not play and move straight. In  order to make a game of the shad more intensive some models of baits are designed with cuts and notches in a tail part.

Also the width of the tail’s stem affects on the intensity of the bait’s game, thin stem and thick body of the shad provide more intensive game in the water.

A brisk game of a shad can provide significant advantage during fishing for certain species of fish. When you choose a shad for fishing you need to pay attention to the durability of the material as there will be only a body left even after a short use of a bait. 

Slugs are mounted on the front part of the body so that the tail is free. Preferably that the hook occupies no more than the front half of the body or one third (1/3) of the bait, the rest should play. You can mount a slug for the usual jig head. You can use a swivel with collapsible eared plummet. It is mounted in a classis way or over the edge making the slug playing more flexible. You can mount slug on the jig head and a hook of a collapsible plummet according to the principle of offset hook hiding a sting of the hook in the back of the bait.

It is typical for a slug to have calm fluctuations in motion but rather abrupt acceleration. In other words, one of the most successful wiring  is considered a drastic step or otherwise a jerk twitching.

Casting has several steps:

1. Throw.
2. Make a pause, the bait goes down to the bottom
3. Lift the spinning rod up or up-side for 0.5-1 meter with a jerk move
4. Make a pause, at the same time pull the line with a reel, at this time the spinning rod makes tilt ahead
5. We lift the spinning rod up with a jerk move again or up-side for 0.5-1 meter.

Such a wiring  has a hypnotic effect on almost all predators hunting in the depth and on the surface of the reservoir where the fishing takes place. The attractiveness of the bait is explained byits behavior in water when casting.  The bait looks like a small fish naturally moving in water layers.

Drop the bait to the very bottom, then raise it for 3-5 cm and make up a wave of low amplitude (for perch no more than 30 cm). In this case the jig lure goes aside and when the rod goes to its initial position in a much quiet way the jig lure goes back into place. Thesevery last centimeters of the fading movement are considered to be the most effective.On the second throw up (stroke) the jig lure goes to the opposite side what eventually allows us to speak about the so-called "eight". It is better to perform flaps not too hard (much smoother than with a spoon bait)or such movements put a perch on the alert. Do not forget a simple but quite an important rule: a rod should be returned to the same initial position from which we started to make a move.