New way to use Super Mag Honey bees
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:55 pm
I just wanted to share a tip I just had pretty good luck with. I was fishing the Mohawk River today and not having much luck with my usual routine. I had made up a rig i was going to try with Flies on Champlain so I modified it slightly by replacing the fly with a double snelled hook rig and "dilly night crawler.
I came up with 7 bass and a very large (15") "silver" creek chub. The rig consisted of an Super Mag Bee (Tamiron) that I had custom taped using Jim's tapes in Flor. Chartreuse/Orange, I took the hook off the ring and put a snap swivel on and tied a 12" long double hook leader and attached small crawler. I will try and post a pix of the rig using a Magnum Bee and a rubber worm for demo purposes.url=https://postimg.org/image/4x2pyspap/][/url]online photo storage
I was using my "little 13 ft Duranautic" with a 10 HP Honda, I don't have GPS on the fish finder but I know from past experience that I travel 1.90mph going up stream and 2.15 downstream when I had my other unit in the boat. At first the rig didn't work that well, I was using a "trip Z" diver (it's like a Jet diver only with a release arm like a dipsy) with a 6 ft leader to get the rig down. There was too much "turbulence" from the diver and the action was too erratic. I switched to a # 1 Tadpole and it worked fine. I sure this would work great on a down rigger too. Over the next 2 hours I picked up the bass and the "Chub" until I unfortunately found a snag which took my rig. I went back to my standard routine for another 2 hours with no luck. I think this rig will work very well with a streamer fly for cold water fish as well.online photo storageuploadimage
I came up with 7 bass and a very large (15") "silver" creek chub. The rig consisted of an Super Mag Bee (Tamiron) that I had custom taped using Jim's tapes in Flor. Chartreuse/Orange, I took the hook off the ring and put a snap swivel on and tied a 12" long double hook leader and attached small crawler. I will try and post a pix of the rig using a Magnum Bee and a rubber worm for demo purposes.url=https://postimg.org/image/4x2pyspap/][/url]online photo storage
I was using my "little 13 ft Duranautic" with a 10 HP Honda, I don't have GPS on the fish finder but I know from past experience that I travel 1.90mph going up stream and 2.15 downstream when I had my other unit in the boat. At first the rig didn't work that well, I was using a "trip Z" diver (it's like a Jet diver only with a release arm like a dipsy) with a 6 ft leader to get the rig down. There was too much "turbulence" from the diver and the action was too erratic. I switched to a # 1 Tadpole and it worked fine. I sure this would work great on a down rigger too. Over the next 2 hours I picked up the bass and the "Chub" until I unfortunately found a snag which took my rig. I went back to my standard routine for another 2 hours with no luck. I think this rig will work very well with a streamer fly for cold water fish as well.online photo storageuploadimage