Creature Bait

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Ryan

Sealiner
What is your best Creature Bait and Why?

Ymamotot Kreature

Yamamototo Flapping Hog

Zoom Brush Hog.

 

I know very little about creature baits or how to fish them and I have an editorial piece to do on a trip to the Upper zambezi early next month where we will be using creature baits for Nembwe's.

I am only familiar with Brushogs which are one of my favorite plastics but am very interested in trying others.

Are there any local manufacters of Local creature baits?

:wfish
 
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HennieS

Senior Member
Ryan

In my experience the Zoom Brushhog is by far the most consistent and always catch a fish or two. I do use Wild Thing and Yamamoto Creature baits as well and my second choice is Wild Thing made by Berkley. Wild Thing worked very well for me in Zim. 
 
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Koos Bass

Member
Hi, I like using a "Cats" Yo-MaMa, I got my first PB of 1.2Kg at Nigel Dam and about 3 weeks later a 2KG at the Mirage Dam in Nigel on the same Yo-MaMa But no-one seems to carry "Cats" lures and my MaMa looks very dead by now.

I normaly fish it 1/16oz texas rigged and fairly slow draging it on the bottom over rocks and high point and drops.

 I have some Yum Creatures and Crawdads in dif colors but my finding is that it gets taken by the small ones to often. (when i say small i mean 200g-500g)
 
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Koos Bass

Member
Hennie

I have never had luck with brushhogs but maby im just to stupid.

Could you please reply with a short discription on sizes, rigs, colors and techinque to fish them.

Thanks
 
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bandit365

New member
I am going to go with brush Hoggs and speed craw's.

but i have had some success in the cold with a crawdad, think the best is to know what there is in the water would imagine a crawdad would work if there a crab in the dam or river.

so i would say it the old story of know the fodder in the water!

Not that i know anything just what i read :fishn
 
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Bigmouth

Senior Member
Baby brushhogs and speedcraws, dip the 1st 2cm of the legs in spike it chartruse and you have a deadly bait.
 
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HennieS

Senior Member
Koos

I fish brushogs mainly on Texas rig but I also use it on Mojo Rig and Carolina Rig. If I want a bait to fall quickly and stay close to the structure for a while I use a Texas Rig with a 1/2 ounce tungsten weight, tungsten because of the small size and the fact that it is hard and makes a nice noise when bumped against a rock or a tree.

My favorite colors is for Summer(Green Pumkin, Watermelon, Watermelon Candy, Watermelon Red and Watermelon Gold) for Winter(Junebug and Black&Blue). I cannot think of any dam in SA and Zim that I fished where I have not caught a fish on Brushhogs a very good bait. I do believe that creature baits is a much of a muchness though, I believe that if the fish is eating creature baits they will eat mostly any creature bait. I think more important is to find a creature bait that you have confidence in and stick with it, or else it will cost you a lot of money! 
 
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HennieS

Senior Member
My fondest memory of Brushogs happened at the Clan William classic, flew down to fish the tournament with a friend. The nice town that Clan is we got stuck the night before and was late for the launch. Half way through a tough day my partner was bored and sat on the deck playing with a brushog and spikeit pens chartruese and pink making zebra stripes highlighting the eyes ect. I took it out of his hand and rigged it, first cast 2.3kg smallie, we ended up catching 5 smallies on the clown brushog method of which 4 was over 2kg's and won the tournament! 
 
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zippy

New member
My favourite creature bait is the baby brush hog, watermelon coloured, fished weightless. This is always my go-to bait and i always seem to pick up a fish or two when nothing else is working for me!
 
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bekkerian

Senior Member
I love the crab lookalike(cant remember brand) doesnt last long tho!

anyway...was fishing the other day, no bite, no nibble, no nothing, last lure was n small green baby brush hog, but still....nothing....changed to the BIGGER version of the green brush hog....BAM fish on...and a nice size aswell. so just to show how important size is and not just colour! anyway... love fishing creatures weightless!
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
Yamamoto Kreatures fished weightless and rigged wrong-way round, black/chartuese skirt. Used as a jerkbait.

Of late I use Zoom's Lil Critter Craw's in Watermelon Red and Green Pumpkin Red, rigge with a 30cm Carolina Trace. Gets taken on the drop or on the first movement after reaching the bottom.

Brush-hogs for me only work in the Tiny variant of the Watermelon Red also rigged on a Carolina rig. Gets taken on the drop or on the first movement after reaching the bottom.
 
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JasonG

New member
My best creature baits:

1# itti noli

2#Wild Thing/Thang? (made by strike king)

3# Brush hog

only reason why the itti noli and Wild thing  is above brush hog for me, is because they are tube bait bodies, and you can stick a huge zoom rattle up the naught.

*click click click*

 
 
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Vaalboy101

New member
Try rig one up on a Shakey head..... deadly!!!

My best bait at Goedertrouw is a 1/4 ounce 4/0 shakey with a watermelon red Zoom brushog, fished on a 7 ft MH and 12lb flouro.
 
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