Lure review: Go 2 Bait Company

I love these baits! My favorite colors for them are Cranbug and Green pumpkin. They are hand poured with the highest quality plastics available. That makes them float. Most competitors put so much hardener and metal flake in their cheap quality plastics that they sink and have little to no action. Go 2 Baits also puts a limited amount of metal flake in their plastics insuring that they float. Also, they don't rip and tear as easy as other products because of the quality grade of plastics.

       The four I own and have tested out are the 4.2 inch lil' thumper, the swimming craw, the 7 inch shaky worm, and the 4.5 inch shaky worm.  The lil' thumper is designed as a flipping and pitching bait, but works great on a shaky head, texas, or Carolina rig. Since it floats the appendages float up they respond to even the slightest rod movement. It falls into the creature category.

 The swimming craw is as versatile as the lil' thumper, except it has a better swimming action and it is shaped like a craw. It can also be used as a jig trailer. It falls into the craw category.

The 7 inch shaky worm is my personal favorite. It is so much better than a zoom trick worm! It has a square head, allowing it to be used after catching many bass. It shakes on a very slight rod twitch. I love to rig it on a shaky head rig. If it catches the fish's eye and the fish follows it down, its tail will stand up, causing the strike. If the head rips after a few bass, just simply bite a little section off. You can get lots of bass off one worm. It falls into the worm category. 

 The last is the 4.5 shaky worm. I like to rig it on a drop shot or a shaky head. It is smaller than the 7 inch version, but you get more in a pack. It doesn't have the same design as its big brother, but it is still very durable. It also falls into the worm category. 

 If you are on the market for a soft plastic company, don't hesitate to try Go 2 baits. Everybody needs
a go 2!

Soft Plastic Colors and Styles

My Favorite color for soft plastics on J Percy Priest Lake is Green Pumpkin. That because the water visibility is usually 2-5 feet. If you were going to fish clearer water than that I would use Watermelon or Watermelon red. If I were fishing water visibility that was 0-2 feet I would use Junebug or Black. That is for soft plastics that are being hoped up of the bottom and crawled through the rocks. For a soft plastic that is imitating a baitfish I like white or any baitfish pattern.


     There are many styles of soft plastics, but I break them down into 4 styles. The first is a worm. It is more that likely that a bass has never seen a live worm in his/her life. But for some reason they strike them. I like fishing a 10 inch worm for bass in the summer. My all around favorite worm to fish year round is a shaky head worm.  The second is a creature bait. A creature bait is just that, a creature. Some baits nobody knows what they look like, but some look like lizards. Others just look like a mix between a lizard, craw, snake, bluegill, and other things. My favorite bait for flipping is a beaver style bait. Any creature bait is good for bed fishing. All you have to do is annoy a nest guarding bass just enough, and he will crush it.  The third is a craw bait. These are effective any times of the year, Texas rigged and as jig trailers. The last is a fluke style bait. Fluke Style baits mimic shad and other baitfish. I love to fish these in the fall.



          The first picture is the colors. Starting from the left is Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Red, Black, Junebug, and a baitfish pattern. The second picture is all the different style soft plastic worms I have. The third picture is the vast variety of creature baits out on the market. The fourth picture is some of the craw type baits I have. The last picture is some fluke style baits.

A little more is involved in fishing than most think

I fished in one of my favorite spots off the bank tonight. I did not get any bites until I tied on a texas rigged without a bullet weight senko right before dark. The cold front moved through and it messed up the fish big time. If you could even get them to bite they were short striking your lures. Well today got a little better and they bit my senko. I caught two 14 inch bass. They both were barely hooked in the corner of the mouth. Also, the senko had bite marks in the tail. So that tells me that the bass were still a little affected by the cold front because they just grabbed the tail and took it in real slow. Anyway, I will attach a pic of a senko in case anyone does not know what a senko looks like.

Catfish 9/10

I decided to go to catch some catfish, so I went to my secret spot I found a couple weeks ago. When I got there it was thundering and lightning, so I had to wait a few minutes to go out and fish. After I baited my three lines with chicken liver I wrapped them with sewing thread to keep them on the 1/0 VMC circle hook I was using. After I threw them out, I only had to wait about 10 minutes before I caught my first channel catfish. I caught about 3 more channel cats in about 1 hour, then I caught a big (for me at least) blue catfish, and it felt like I was trying to lift The Titanic out of the water. After that, I caught 4 more smaller channel catfish, the smallest being about 12 inches. I took all of them home and cleaned them, and they are soon to be a very good meal.

Buzz bait Bass

So we decided to go bass and bluegill fishing Monday, so we went to J Percy Priest lake. First we had to go to Walmart to get a map of Percy Priest and some crickets. When we were there we decided to get a new baitcasting rod and reel. I got the Abu Garcia Silver max reel with a 6.3:1 gear ratio. I paired it with a 7 foot Medium Heavy Berkley Cherry wood rod and some 14 lb. Stren Monofilament.


 When we got to the lake I decided to try to catch a few bluegills on live crickets. Soon the rain started, driving the bluegill deep under cover, very hard to catch. So I decided to bass fish a little and tied on a square bill crank bait. I got it snagged the second cast. Soon I was wading waist deep trying to get my crank bait back. After a few minutes of that, I got it undone, and went and put that setup away. Next I tried the shaky head worm. I had it rigged on a set your hook baits 3/16 ounce shaky head jig head with a 6  inch Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper in green pumpkin gold .

 After about 20 minutes of fishing the shaky head, I remembered what Brian Carper told me, He has been catching fish with buzz baits in shallow water. So I tried the Hoppy's lures 3/8 ounce Tally Whacker in white. Soon in about 5 minutes I was fighting the first fish, (the smaller one), and it jumped about 6 times. I went back and fished it an hour without a bite. Then I went back to the same place I caught the first one and caught a smaller one. I fished for another hour without a bite.

 Then I tried to catch a few bluegill, and the next 45 minutes I was reeling in bluegill. Soon I got tired, so I asked my Uncle to catch some for me to let me rest. Soon I bored catching them So I picked my buzz bait up and tried a cast in the shallows around some logs and brush. On the second cast a big bass slammed by buzz bait in 3 feet of water. I fought him a minute or two, and a one point he had me wrapped up in a tree branch. After that, I had a headache, so I had to go home.

Percy Priest bluegill

I have been going to J. Percy Priest lake the past few days, catching a whole lot of bluegill. They were eating up crickets at Fate Sanders Marina, and Lamar Hill boat ramp. I caught a few of them that were 9 inches long! A foot long smallmouth bass somehow showed up on my hook and put up a good fight. If you have never had bluegill fillets while they are fresh, let me tell you, they are great!