ARTIFICIAL BAITS 101 



deep, and manipulates his rod tip and reel handle so 

 that the lure travels erratically, similar to the move- 

 ments of the wobbler. 



Underwater plugs are the most effective in fairly 

 deep water too deep for good results, ordinarily, with 

 wobblers and surface baits. This means that you must 

 reel slowly to get your bait down because the under- 

 water is so weighted that it sinks deeper the slower 

 you reel. The best way to use it is to reel, stop and 

 let your bait sink a little, reel, stop and so on, with an 

 occasional twitch of the rod tip first to one side, then 

 to the other. This is awkward at first but is soon 

 mastered. Of course when fishing in a stream full of 

 snags the bait must be reeled fast enough to keep 

 it away from the bottom. To fish very deep use a 

 small bodied bait and hook to it a snap swivel sinker 

 to keep its head down. 



If your underwater plug gets snagged in the weeds, 

 don't try to pull it loose by main strength. Row 

 directly over it, then grasp the line as far down as 

 possible and a few sharp tugs will usually free it. 



Color seems to play a more important part in this 

 class of bait than in floaters or wobblers and certain 

 colors are apparently best in certain waters. For ex- 

 ample, the rainbow coloration, green back, red uppers, 

 yellow sides, cream belly, is usually the favorite on 

 large, clear, spring fed bodies of water; the solid red 

 in the marl bottomed lakes in Michigan and other 

 states ; the solid yellow or solid white in marshy, dark 

 water lakes and streams; the green cracked back, white 



