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Tip for Making a Shallow-Water and Weedless Rig
- A soft-plastic jerk bait rigged on an offset worm hook is an effective
shallow-water lure for redfish. Modified a five-inch minnow-tails by adding
"eyes" in the form of beads from a bead chain. I poke a small
hole through the head of the soft-plastic bait with needle-nose pliers
and insert a three-bead segment of bead chain through the hole so each
end is visible on one side of the bait.
- The bead eyes rattle, which adds to the lure's attraction, and the extra weight permits longer, casts and causes the weedless bait to sink slowly.
- - Steve Hicks
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